Bicycling beyond the Divide - Daryl Farmer

Bicycling beyond the Divide

Two Journeys into the West

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
331 Seiten
2008
Bison Books (Verlag)
978-0-8032-2034-8 (ISBN)
26,15 inkl. MwSt
On a journey begun twenty years earlier, Daryl Farmer, a twenty-year-old two-time college dropout: headed west. Twenty years later, with the yellowing journals from that transformative five-thousand-mile bicycle trek in his pack, Farmer set out to retrace his path. This book presents his story. It charts a moving landscape of people and places.
On a journey begun twenty years earlier, Daryl Farmer, a twenty-year-old two-time college dropout, did what lost men have so often done in this country: he headed west. Twenty years later and seventy pounds heavier, with the yellowing journals from that transformative five-thousand-mile bicycle trek in his pack, Farmer set out to retrace his path. This is his story of pursuing that distant summer and that distant dream of home, where home is endless space, a roof of big sky, and a bed of dry earth. Just as the years altered the man, so, too, have they altered the West, and Farmer’s second journey affords a unique perspective on these changes—as well as on what lasts. Whether caught in a Colorado snowstorm or braving a Yellowstone herd of bison, kayaking with orcas in Puget Sound, trading Ninja moves with a homeless man in San Francisco, or getting the lowdown on aliens on Nevada’s Extraterrestrial Highway, Farmer charts a moving landscape of people and places. This is the West where the natural world and personal character are inextricably linked, and where one man’s ride into the past and present takes us to the heart of that ever-evolving connection.

Daryl Farmer has published essays, short stories, poems, and reviews in several journals including South Dakota Review and Prairie Schooner.

PrologueColorado    Departure    On How not to Begin    Florissant to Fairplay    Hoosier Summit    Below Freezing    A Colorado Cowpatch South of Baggs    Wyoming    Outlaws, Antelope, Prairie Dogs, and Sage    Night at The Antelope Saloon    To Jackson    Elkfest    Signal Mountain Lodge    How to Bicycle through a Buffalo Herd    Richard IMontana    Another Log on the Fire    Paradise Valley to Ennis    Virginia City to Opportunity    Anaconda to Missoula    Faceplanting on Highway 2    Glacier National Park     Kalispell Again     Libby to TroyIdaho    Karaoke Night in Bonner's FerryWashington    Fire Trucks and Rodeo Queens    Okanagan to Friday Harbor    The San Juan Islands     Anacortes to Port Angeles    A Side Trip to Victoria    Port Angeles to Shoalwater Bay    WinnefredOregon    Astoria to Newport    On a Sunday Morning    A Coming to Peace    At the North Bend Airport    Intermission: San Francisco    Like a Haggard Ghost    City of Hills    Return to Oregon    North Bend to Gold BeachCalifornia    To Eureka    From Modesto to Yosemite    From Mammoth Lake to Mono LakeNevada    Tonopah    The Extraterrestrial HighwayUtah and Arizona    Modena to Kanab    At Jacob Lake 

Reihe/Serie Outdoor Lives
Zusatzinfo 2 maps
Verlagsort Nebraska
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 658 g
Themenwelt Reisen Reiseberichte Nord- / Mittelamerika
ISBN-10 0-8032-2034-0 / 0803220340
ISBN-13 978-0-8032-2034-8 / 9780803220348
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