Riders of the Long Road
Title | Riders of the Long Road PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Bransford |
Publisher | |
Pages | 374 |
Release | 2020-12-16 |
Genre | |
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Bestselling, award-winning first novel. Rewritten after thirty seven years. Faster, deeper, truer--- read it again for the first time! In 1783, the youthful heir to an American fortune hounds a circuit rider deep into the wilds of Kentucky. The youth carries a secret―he's the preacher's illegitimate son. As he rages against his father, both men are ambushed by an evil so monstrous they must join forces to survive. Riders of the Long Road leads to unexpected romance, reconciliation, and a slam-bang ending that demands a sequel. Enjoy this full gallop ride through Colonial America the way it really was―replete with slavery, murder, migration and the whiskey trade―and marvel at the power of a gospel that challenged desperate men in post-revolutionary America.
Lady Long Rider
Title | Lady Long Rider PDF eBook |
Author | Bernice Ende |
Publisher | Farcountry Press |
Pages | 270 |
Release | 2018-06-27 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1560377453 |
Riding 2,000 miles on horseback from Montana to New Mexico sounds like a crazy but thrilling dream or pure hardship and exhaustion. According to Bernice Ende, the trip was all that and more. Since swinging her leg over the saddle for that first long ride in 2005 (at the age of 50), Ende has logged more than 29,000 miles in the saddle, crisscrossing North America on horseback - alone. More than once she has traversed the Great Plains, the Southwest deserts, the Cascade Range, and the Rocky Mountains. Along the way, she discovered a sense of community and love of place that unites people wherever they live. From 2014-2016, she was the first person to ride coast to coast and back again in one trek, winning acclaim from the international Long Riders' Guild and awe from the people she met along the way. Bernice Ende's memoirs are illuminated by accompanying maps of her routes and photos from her journeys, capturing the instant friends she meets along the way, and her ongoing encounters with harsh weather, wildlife, hard work, mosquitoes, tricky route-finding, and the occasional worn out horseshoe. Ende reveals her inner struggles and triumphs - testing the limits of physical and mental stamina, coping with inescapable solitude, and the rewards of living life her own way, as she says, "in her own skin." Saddle up and come along for the journey of a lifetime.
Ghost Rider
Title | Ghost Rider PDF eBook |
Author | Neil Peart |
Publisher | ECW Press |
Pages | 564 |
Release | 2002-06 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1554907063 |
In less than a year, Neil Peart lost both his 19-year-old daughter, Selena, and his wife, Jackie. Faced with overwhelming sadness and isolated from the world in his home on the lake, Peart was left without direction. That lack of direction lead him on a 5
The Longest Ride
Title | The Longest Ride PDF eBook |
Author | Emilio Scotto |
Publisher | Motorbooks |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013-12-08 |
Genre | Transportation |
ISBN | 9780760346501 |
For his eighth birthday, Emilio Scotto received a World Atlas. Promptly he announced his plan to make a route that would pass through all the countries of the world, a route he named BLUE ROAD ONE. When, some years later, he found himself astride a black 1100 Honda Gold Wing motorcycle, Blue Road One beckoned, and Scotto set off on a journey that would last more than a decade, take him virtually everywhere in the world, and land him in the Guinness Book of World Records. This is his story, a thrill ride that begins in his native Argentina, crosses Panama in the tumultuous time of Noriega, Mexico in the midst of an earthquake, and finds him broke in L.A. where, in a chance meeting, Muhammad Ali gives him fifty dollars and a signed book. Breaching the Iron Curtain, crossing the Berlin Wall at Checkpoint Charlie, being blessed by the Pope, set upon by cannibals in Sierra Leone, fleeing Somalia on a freighter, Scotto's adventures would be unbelievable if they weren't true. His tale of touring the world from Tunisia to Turkey, Petra to Afghanistan, Yugoslavia to Singapore, traveling miles enough to take him to the moon and back, is unlike any ever told. Come along, for the ride of a lifetime.
The Man Who Would Stop at Nothing: Long-Distance Motorcycling's Endless Road
Title | The Man Who Would Stop at Nothing: Long-Distance Motorcycling's Endless Road PDF eBook |
Author | Melissa Holbrook Pierson |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 204 |
Release | 2011-09-20 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 039307904X |
Provides an insider's view of long-distance riding, explains what draws people to the challenges and solitude of the pastime, and highlights a middle-aged diabetic man who loves riding impossible distances.
Along a Long Road
Title | Along a Long Road PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
Pages | 40 |
Release | 2013-06-04 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0316235687 |
Follow that road! Speed off on an eventful bicycle ride along the bold yellow road that cuts through town, by the sea, and through the country. Ride up and around, along and through, out and down. Frank's striking graphic style is executed in just five joyous colors, and his spare, rhythmic language is infectious. Hit a bump? Get back on track! Reach the end? Start again!
Long Way Down
Title | Long Way Down PDF eBook |
Author | Ewan McGregor |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 403 |
Release | 2008-07-15 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1416577483 |
Eighteen countries. Five shock absorbers. Two bikers. One amazing adventure... After their fantastic trip round the world in 2004, fellow actors and bike fanatics Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman couldn't shake the travel bug. Inspired by their UNICEF visits to Africa, they knew they had to go back and experience this extraordinary continent in more depth. And so they set off on their 15,000-mile journey with two new BMWs loaded up for the trip. Their route took them from John O'Groats at the northernmost tip of Scotland to Cape Agulhas on the southernmost tip of South Africa. Along the way they rode some of the toughest terrain in the world -- and met some of the friendliest people. They rode their bikes right up to the pyramids in Egypt and visited Luke Skywalker's house in Tunisia. They met people who had triumphed over terrifying experiences -- former childhood soldiers in Uganda and children living amidst the minefields of Ethiopia. They had a close encounter with a family of gorillas in Rwanda and were nearly trampled by a herd of elephants in Botswana. Riding through spectacular scenery, often in extreme temperatures, Ewan and Charley faced their hardest challenges yet. With their trademark humor and honesty they tell their story -- the drama, the dangers and sheer exhilaration of riding together again, through a continent filled with magic and wonder.