Bibliograph

Life is a wheel, love, death, etc., and a bike ride across America, Bruce Weber

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Life is a wheel, love, death, etc., and a bike ride across America, Bruce Weber

Language

eng

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

portraits

Index

no index present

resource.interestGradeLevel

9-12, Medialog, Incorporated

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Life is a wheel

Medium

large print

Responsibility statement

Bruce Weber

Series statement

Thorndike press large print nonfiction

Sub title

love, death, etc., and a bike ride across America

Summary

"Based on his popular series in the New York Times chronicling his cross-country bicycle trip, bestselling author Bruce Weber shares his adventures from his solo ride across the USA. Riding a bicycle across the US is one of those bucket-list goals that many dream about but few achieve. Bestselling author and New York Times reporter Bruce Weber made the trip, solo, over the summer and fall of 2011--at the age of fifty-seven. Expanding upon his popular series published in The New York Times, Life Is a Wheel is the witty and inspiring account of his journey, where he extols the pleasures of cycling and reflects on what happened on his adventure, in the world, in the country, and in his life. The story begins on the Oregon coast with a middle-aged man wondering what he's gotten himself into and ends in triumph on the George Washington Bridge, wondering how soon he might try it again. Part travelogue, part memoir, part paean to the bicycle as a simple and elegant mode of both mobility and self-expression--and part wry and panicky account of a fifty-seven-year-old man's attempt to stave off mortality--Life Is a Wheel is an elegant and entertaining escape for any armchair traveler"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

The West. Everything up to the beginning ; The geyser effect ; Billy "Salad" Joseph ; "The horse doesn't think it's a real cow" ; Pie ; Downhill from here ; If I were your father -- ; Lost in the West ; Nowhere is nowhere -- American Gulliver. My war : bike pirates and an armadillo ; The President of the United States -- The East, eventually. My country ; Head game ; What if -- ? ; The wet guy ; Life is an Etch a Sketch ; Time and distance -- Epilogue: An actual thing

Target audience

adult

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Love, death, etc., and a bike ride across America

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