Wine Country Theatre
is proud to presentTHE BALLAD OF
JASON LEWISAs told in words and music by Grammy nominated composer/performer Garry Eister
Recommended for children age 12 and up.
Quite possibly the most badass adventurer of our time, Jason Lewis embarked on an expedition around the world solely relying on his own strength and no motors. On land, Lewis traveled by walking, biking, and inline skating over five separate continents. As for the rivers, seas, and oceans, he experimented with an assortment of techniques like swimming, kayaking, rowing, and pedaling a boat.
He was hit by a car in Colorado, attacked by a crocodile in Australia, detained as a suspected spy in Egypt, and survived illness and periods of despair.
After 13 years, he achieved his goal and was recognized by Guinness World Records as the first individual human-powered circumnavigation of the Earth, 2013.
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GUINNESS WORLD RECORD 12 July 1994 On 6 October 2007, Jason Lewis (UK) completed the first ever circumnavigation of the Earth without wind or motor assistance. Starting from the Greenwich Meridian Line in East London, UK, on 12 July 1994, Lewis' 13-year journey - Expedition 360 - saw him walking, cycling, and inline skating across five continents, and kayaking, swimming, rowing, and pedalling a boat across the rivers, seas, and oceans. He covered a total of 74,842 km (46,505 miles), passing through antipodal points, as per the guidelines, and covering more than the circumference of the Earth (24,900 miles or 40,075 km). He was accompanied for parts of the trip by various friends and supporters - including Steve Smith (UK), who left the expedition after pedal-boating with Lewis from California to Hawaii, USA. Lewis completed the ocean crossings in a wooden pedal-powered boat named Moksha. |
In 1994, amateur adventurers Jason Lewis and Stevie Smith set out from Greenwich in London, determined to go the entire way around the earth unaided by motors, sails or animals. They would pedal, skate, walk and kayak through Europe, across the Atlantic, the US, Central America, the Pacific, Australia, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. The purposes of the trip were to have a grand adventure and to promote a message of environmental stewardship and sustainability.
This thrilling true story is told by Grammy nominated composer/performer Garry Eister, accompanying himself on a keyboard. The tale is told from Lewis' point of view and is embellished with nine songs that paint pictures of the beauty of the earth, the struggles involved in crossing it and something of the spiritual and philosophical underpinning of Lewis' quest. In addition, there are three musical melodramas, two visual aids, one sound effect, and a minuscule musical portrait of a cat.