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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weber, Bruce, 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Weber, Bruce, 1953-.

Mortality--Social aspects.

Mortality.

Self-reliance.

Middle-aged men.

Cycling--Psychological aspects.

Cycling.

Travel.

United States--Description and travel.

United States.

Weber, Bruce, 1953---Travel--United States.

Weber, Bruce.

Cycling--United States.

Middle-aged men--United States--Biography.

Self-reliance--United States.

Mortality--Social aspects--United States.

United States--Social life and customs--1971-.

Manners and customs.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

vii, 336 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Scribner hardcover edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Scribner, 2014.

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.

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

An actual thing.

ISBN:

9781451695014

1451695012

OCLC:

866251835