Highway Cello - by Kenneth Wilson (Paperback)

About the Book

Kenneth Wilson sets off to cycle from Hadrian's Wall to Rome - with his cello on the back of his bike.

Book Synopsis

This isn't an ordinary journey. Old enough to know better, Kenneth Wilson sets off to cycle from Hadrian's Wall to Rome - with a cello on the back of his bike. Every day en route he makes music - at impromptu as well as formal concerts, busking, and just responding to the people and events of each day. Highway Cello is about the 1800 mile journey through England and France, over the Alps and into Italy, and the music and the mishaps along the way. But it's about more than that too. Through the medium of travel and cello, of encounter and exhaustion, of people and places, Kenneth unpacks the real questions of what life is really all about.

Review Quotes

"Highway Cello is an absolute charmer of a travel book - a personal journey that'll keep you until the very last page." Christi Daugherty, author of The Echo Killing, and Night School.

"Cycling 3000km over the Alps is a challenge. To do that with a cello, performing every day, and not knowing what might happen, transforms Kenneth' Journey into an adventure." Alastair Humphreys, author of My Midsummer Morning, Alastair Humphrey's Great Adventurers, etc.