Cycling to the Arctic by David Morris

Cycling to the Arctic by David Morris

Diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at twenty-three, David was told to slow down, take it easy, watch himself. He climbed a rock face the next morning.

Twenty-five years and a small mountain of insulin pens later, and a warning from his doctor that if he didn’t sort himself out, he would likely go blind or lose a limb, David set off from The UK on a fully loaded bicycle, solo, with nothing but a target pinned to the map: the Arctic Circle. What followed was hundreds of miles through The Netherlands, Germany, Sweden's endless forests, to the frozen edge of the world, all fuelled by grit, dark humour, and the constant, unglamorous arithmetic of blood sugar — hypos in the wilderness, insulin that may not survive, a body that kept threatening to quit and a mind that refused to.

Equal parts misadventure and reckoning, Cycling to the Arctic is a memoir that refuses to be a "how to" book about illness and insists instead on being a "can do" one. Funny, unsparing, and often wildly stubborn, it's a story for anyone who's ever been told what they can’t do — and gone and done it anyway.

David Morris was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 1994, aged twenty-three. A lifelong climber and outdoor adventurer, he has never let the condition dictate what he does – including a solo cycle from the UK to the Arctic Circle and back, the subject of this, his first book.

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ISBN 13	9781806349203
ISBN 10	1806349205
Title	Cycling to the Arctic
Author	David Morris
Series	The Daring Diabetic Series
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Troubador Publishing
Number of pages	264
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