Coming 2025
Born 1940 in a poor German village, Heinz Stücke is tormented by his Nazi father at home and teased "tiny Heinz" at school. He believes he's a “poisonous dwarf” and dreams of escape.
In 1958 with a determined spirit but only an 8th-grade education, 18-year old Heinz pedals away to circle the world on a three-speed bicycle.
Finally free, Stucke travels for the next 50 years - never once returning home. He visits every country on the planet while conquering Mount Kilimanjaro, rafting the Amazon, cycling Alaska's icy North Slope, sneaking into forbidden Tibet and pedaling a total of 648,000 kilometers.
But can the poisonous dwarf fulfill his dream and return home a hero?
"An irresistible story of
beating the system to embrace the world."
The first-ever account:
Stucke's lifelong quest to become the world's most traveled man.
The Author
Since 2022, the journalist Ryan Anders has lived in Germany working with Heinz Stucke, interviewing Stucke's family and childhood friends and digging through German archives.
Thus far Anders has tracked down 290 "eye witnesses" from around the world who met Stucke on his impossible odyssey.
With exclusive access to Stucke's travel diaries, personal letters and photographs, Anders has reconstructed each climb and crash of this unrepeatable adventure.
More about Anders at www.ryananders.de.
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