Christophe Cousin was born the June 10th 1976 in Loiret.
It is adventurous, traveller and writer.
It carries out only a round the world tour with bicycle of September 2002 in December 2004, a 833 days adventure, 30000 kilometers through 27 countries. On its return, it publishes a first work " Happiness at the end of the guidon". As of June 2005, it sets out again during two years on the roads of the world for a long voyage in Utopias, of community in community. In parallel, it carries out reports for Canal+ while going to the meeting of the wandering people within the framework of the emission " New the explorateurs" that it Co-present.
On the road of the Utopias
It realizes of 2005 to 2007 a series of voyages in the utopian communities. In the middle of its exploration, a great crossing of the United States, Freeport (Maine) to San Francisco (California) at the wheel of DeSoto 1955 in the spirit of Kerouac. It also remains of Auroville in India with Christiania in the Netherlands, while passing by Uzupis to Lithuania or Madagascar.
With the meeting of the wandering people
It leaves regularly to the meeting the nomads the world. Changtangs of Ladakh to the Tuaregs of Niger, while passing through the stockbreeders of reindeers of Iakoutie and the Kirgiz of the Celestial mounts, it remains with them. Its impressions of voyage give place to a series of documentary in the series " New the explorateurs" for Canal+.
Round the world tour with bicycle - happiness at the end of the handlebar
It leaves on September 7th, 2002, is found captive in Syria, suspecté to be an Israeli spy, knows the hell on the road of Bénarès, undergoes extreme insulation in full snowstorm in New Zealand or the hunger and the cold on the tracks of Catamarca, in Argentina but nourishes also happiness of those which it meets in way to continue his tour.
External bonds
- www.bonheurauboutduguidon.com - the site of its project of round the world tour in the bicycle
- www.christophe-cousin.com - Its official personal site
Personal account
- Christophe Cousin, happiness at the end of the handlebar Paris: Arthaud, 2005. 237 pp. ISBN 2-7003-9648-0.
- Christophe Cousin, On the road of the Utopias Paris: Arthaud, 2007. 288 pp. ISBN 978-2700396737.
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