Life Cycles

Life Cycles is On the Road for the Occupy generation. It’s an adventure and a quest with a political heart, and the love of the world shines through (almost) all the encounters that the open road and Julian’s own openness invite time and time again * openDemocracy *Sayarer’s love of the open road and his ability to evoke the beauty of travelling by bike are a potent combination that makes you itch to go cycling … A wonderful, vivid account of a record-breaking, 18,000-mile adventure * Cycle Active *This is a very inspiring tale that says alot about the human race, its hopes and expectations, and there is even a bit about the bicycle, especially spoke breakages – Mike Burrows, Designer of Chris Boardman’s 1992 Olympic-winning bicycle

Julian Sayarer cycled a half dozen times across Europe to his second nation of Turkiye before before breaking a world record for a circumnavigation by bicycle, and going on to write Life Cycles (2014). He is the winner of the Stanford Dolman Travel Writing Award for Interstate (2016), an account of hitchhiking through middle America, and is the author of Messengers (2016), All at Sea (2017), Fifty Miles Wide (2020), Ondaatje Prize-longlisted Iberia (2021), and Turkiye (2023). Julian combines a background in political science to create a critically acclaimed travel writing style - politics at roadsides. In this 12mph view of the world in passing, he uses human stories and journeys to document global issues for a broad audience. His writing has appeared in the London Review of Books, the Guardian, Financial Times, and in numerous cycling publications.