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Charley pretends to have the same conviction to use anything other than a commercial airplane to travel, but he is more than happy to hop on a plane if there's even a whiff of high seas or rough weather or pirates. But Boorman's Right to the Edge (an embarrassingly misleading title) is more comfortable than compelling - both for him and us. These adventures made for compelling reading, even if they weren't always as entertaining as they could have been. In Long Way Round, Ewan and Charley found themselves taking a train to the Road of Bones because Siberia was just too damn huge in Race to Dakar, Charley broke both his wrists early in the race, but stayed to chronicle the progress of the team he'd assembled, giving the Dakar a different face than is usually seen in Long Way Down, the boys were faced with tough decisions brought on by having Americans with them on the trip, decisions that kept part of their crew out of Libya, changed their already tight schedule, and created team tension that bore some genuine drama in By Any Means, Charley's dedication to using as many means of transportation as possible - excluding commercial aircraft - led to two harrowing experiences on the ocean, a thrilling water-ski from one country to another, and some tropically drenched dirt bike rides through South-East Asian jungles. This led to genuine moments of adventure that were formed and shaped within the journeys themselves. In the past, Boorman's trips had very specific boundaries that forced him or his team to tough out everything from impassable stretches of road and bad accidents to racing against self-imposed timetables or the elements.

There's a travel weariness in Right to the Edge that has begun to diminish the shine that was so much a part of his earlier journeys. Although better than his first By Any Means book, Charley Boorman's Right to the Edge follow-up is far from the pure joy of his collaborations with Ewan MacGregor, and the adrenaline rush of his solo Race to Dakar.

Right to the edge sydney to tokyo by any means