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With Every Step: A Son's Quest and a Father's Promise
The story of my son, who made an epic solo trek around Australia in honour of a mate who died too young, only to lose his own life weeks later. - Neil Cadigan
In late 2010 Andrew 'Cad' Cadigan quit his job, sold his home and set out to walk around Australia. He was doing it in honour of a mate, Chris Simpson, who had recently succumbed to a rare pre-leukaemia condition.
Over the next eighteen months Cad walked over 15,000 kilometres, pushing a three-wheeler pram that held all his provisions. Along the way he met hundreds of people from all walks of life, making new friendships and collecting donations for the Leukaemia Foundation. He battled extreme weather, injury, loneliness and even depression, but refused to surrender.
Four days after triumphantly crossing the Sydney Harbour Bridge to complete his trek, Cad left for a holiday in Thailand, where he planned to turn his journals into a book. Tragically, within a month he suffered horrific injuries in a motorcycle accident, dying twelve weeks later.
Cad's father, Neil, vowed to his son that he would finish his book. With Every Step, which is by turns irreverent, entertaining, tragic and inspirational, represents the completion of Andrew Cadigan's mission. It is an emotional story that only a father could tell.
In late 2010 Andrew 'Cad' Cadigan quit his job, sold his home and set out to walk around Australia. He was doing it in honour of a mate, Chris Simpson, who had recently succumbed to a rare pre-leukaemia condition.
Over the next eighteen months Cad walked over 15,000 kilometres, pushing a three-wheeler pram that held all his provisions. Along the way he met hundreds of people from all walks of life, making new friendships and collecting donations for the Leukaemia Foundation. He battled extreme weather, injury, loneliness and even depression, but refused to surrender.
Four days after triumphantly crossing the Sydney Harbour Bridge to complete his trek, Cad left for a holiday in Thailand, where he planned to turn his journals into a book. Tragically, within a month he suffered horrific injuries in a motorcycle accident, dying twelve weeks later.
Cad's father, Neil, vowed to his son that he would finish his book. With Every Step, which is by turns irreverent, entertaining, tragic and inspirational, represents the completion of Andrew Cadigan's mission. It is an emotional story that only a father could tell.
256 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 2014
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March 17, 2019
Writing style grated me but what an amazing story and read. Incredibly tragic
August 30, 2019
A moving story about Cad's expedition around Australia in facing physical, mental and emotional challenges.
October 27, 2015
What an exceptional book about an exceptionally committed person.
With Every Step details the experiences of Andrew Cadigan who walked 15,000km around Australia in 2011-2012 pushing a pram in honour of his best friend Chris who lost his life too early to Leukaemia and to raise funds for cancer and Leukaemia research.
Tragically Andrew lost his own life in a motorcycle accident in Thailand only weeks after completing his 536 day trek.
Andrew kept a detailed diary and posted blogs about his journey which he was working on publishing while in Thailand before he was tragically killed. His father Neil published Andrew's experiences in this book as probably one of the greatest memorials a Father could give to his son.
Andrew was a character and his notes and experiences are humorous, heart-warming and inspirational.
Andrew's OzOnFoot website is still active at http://www.ozonfoot.com.au/cgi-bin/ho...
Thank you Andrew for what you gave us in the short time you were with us and thank you Neil for publishing this exceptional book.
A highly recommended read.
With Every Step details the experiences of Andrew Cadigan who walked 15,000km around Australia in 2011-2012 pushing a pram in honour of his best friend Chris who lost his life too early to Leukaemia and to raise funds for cancer and Leukaemia research.
Tragically Andrew lost his own life in a motorcycle accident in Thailand only weeks after completing his 536 day trek.
Andrew kept a detailed diary and posted blogs about his journey which he was working on publishing while in Thailand before he was tragically killed. His father Neil published Andrew's experiences in this book as probably one of the greatest memorials a Father could give to his son.
Andrew was a character and his notes and experiences are humorous, heart-warming and inspirational.
Andrew's OzOnFoot website is still active at http://www.ozonfoot.com.au/cgi-bin/ho...
Thank you Andrew for what you gave us in the short time you were with us and thank you Neil for publishing this exceptional book.
A highly recommended read.
March 4, 2015
a very inspiring read!
January 18, 2016
Great story which shows true determination
April 11, 2017
This was one of the hardest books I have read. My son Nathan died at 33 from cancer. Reading about Andrew's truly awesome walk around Australia for his mate who died of cancer, only later to be killed in an accident in Thailand - was hard to take. But I read at least about all the walking he did. I have read of some incredible hardships against what 'normal' people would call insurmountable odds - and this beats all of them by a long way. Andrew went through hell for months on end. Temperatures over 40c, headwinds, hoardes of flies and mosquitoes, rain for days, depression, extreme soreness, headwinds and much more. Amazing. But his experiences from this nearly 15,000 km will only remain in this book as Andrew died shortly after completing this true saga. Thanks Andrew: Unforgettable.
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