Life is a wheel: love, death, etc., and a bike ride across America
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"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" --
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Subjects
Subjects
Cycling
Cycling -- Psychological aspects
Cycling -- United States
Description and travel
Middle-aged men
Middle-aged men -- United States -- Biography
Mortality
Mortality -- Social aspects -- United States
Psychological aspects
Self-reliance
Self-reliance -- United States
Social aspects
Social life and customs
Travel
United States -- Description and travel
United States -- Social life and customs -- 1971-
Weber, Bruce
Weber, Bruce, -- 1953- -- Travel -- United States
Cycling -- Psychological aspects
Cycling -- United States
Description and travel
Middle-aged men
Middle-aged men -- United States -- Biography
Mortality
Mortality -- Social aspects -- United States
Psychological aspects
Self-reliance
Self-reliance -- United States
Social aspects
Social life and customs
Travel
United States -- Description and travel
United States -- Social life and customs -- 1971-
Weber, Bruce
Weber, Bruce, -- 1953- -- Travel -- United States
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9781451695014
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Grouping Title | life is a wheel love death etc and a bike ride across america |
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subject_facet | Cycling -- Psychological aspects Cycling -- United States Middle-aged men -- United States -- Biography Mortality -- Social aspects -- United States Self-reliance -- United States United States -- Description and travel United States -- Social life and customs -- 1971- Weber, Bruce, -- 1953- -- Travel -- United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_display | Life is a wheel : love, death, etc., and a bike ride across America | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_full | Life is a wheel : love, death, etc., and a bike ride across America / Bruce Weber | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_short | Life is a wheel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_sub | love, death, etc., and a bike ride across America | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
topic_facet | Cycling Description and travel Middle-aged men Mortality Psychological aspects Self-reliance Social aspects Social life and customs Travel Weber, Bruce |