Simon Parker

Simon Parker is a British travel writer, author, filmmaker, public speaker and broadcast journalist; and has reported from over 100 countries in the past decade – from Bhutan and French Polynesia to Hawaii and Namibia, via Svalbard, Greenland and Saint Helena.

In 2016, he sailed and cycled from China to London in 133 days, for a Telegraph series and BBC World Service documentary. His award-winning TV travel series, Earth Cycle, has been distributed in 20+ countries globally and can be found on Amazon Prime, FOX Australia and YouTube.

His first book, Riding Out, (Summersdale, 2022) charts a 3,427 mile journey around “Pandemic Britain”, and his latest book, A Ride Across America (September, 2024) was published this July. Frustrated by the shallow headlines focusing only on Trump, guns and divisions, Simon decided that to better understand the USA he would have to travel across it, slowly.