Riding with Rilke Reflections on Motorcycles and Books

Name: Riding with Rilke Reflections on Motorcycles and Books
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ISBN: 9780393062618

ISBN-10: 0393062619

ISBN-13: 9780393062618

Edition: 2006

Authors: Ted Bishop

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A motorcycle odyssey that combines the sensory seduction of the road with the intellectual rewards of archival research. Ted Bishop took one last ride before the fall term. When he tried to pass a tractor-trailer at 80 miles per hour, his motorcycle began to vibrate out of control. Bishop was flung into a ditch, breaking his back in two places, shattering a wrist and ankle, and collapsing his lungs. Left with time to write and reflect, Bishop produced Riding with Rilke, an account of the epic motorcycle trip he had completed just before the crash. Here, Bishop takes readers from Edmonton to Austin, through the classic landscapes of the American West, and to a few of America and Europe's…

Book details

List price: $23.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/17/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 5.80" wide x 8.60" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Prologue: The Crash



Gearing Up



Why a Duc?



Longview



Archival Jolt



Rhythm



Romance of the West



Taos Tangle



The Virginian and West Texas 'Dillos



Have Laptop, Will Travel



ReCovering Ulysses



Archives and Honky-Tonks



Readers, Riders, and Shooters



Continental Courier



Ducati Spirit, Roman Circus



Riding Home



Off the Shelf



Bad Chain



Hunting Kokopelli



Route 66



The Idaho Kid



Scene of the Crime


Epilogue: Riding with Rilke


Acknowledgments