Five Months On A Transcontinental Bike For Love

The Leonard Lopate Show | Mar 17, 2017

Artist Pradyumna Kumar “PK” Mahanandia and his wife Charlotte von Schedvin are the subjects of the new book, The Amazing Story of the Man Who Cycled from India to Europe for Love. It tells the true story of how PK spent nearly five months bicycling from New Delhi to Gothenburg in the late 1970s to reunite with Charlotte, whom he would go onto marry.

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