Uneasy Rider: Travels Through a Mid-Life Crisis - Softcover

Carter, Mike

 
9780091923266: Uneasy Rider: Travels Through a Mid-Life Crisis
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0091923263 ISBN 13: 9780091923266
Verlag: Ebury Press, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

A broken heart and a moment of drunken bravado inspires middle-aged, and typically rather cautious, journalist Mike Carter to take off on a life-changing six month motorcycle trip around Europe. Never mind that he hadn't been on two wheels since an inglorious three-month teenage chapter involving a Lambretta, four crashes and an 18-month ban for drink-driving, a plan had begun to loosely form...

And so, having completed a six day residential motorcycle course and hastily re-mortgaged his flat, Mike sets off alone, resolving to go wherever the road takes him and enjoy the adventure of heading off into the unknown. He ends up travelling almost 20,000 miles and reaching the four extremes of Europe: the Arctic Circle in the north, the Mediterranean coast in the south, the Portuguese Atlantic to the west and the Iraqi border of Turkey in the east.

But really it's a journey inwards, as, on the way, Mike finds his post-divorce scars starting to heal and attempts to discover what he, as a man in his forties who hasn't quite found his place in the world, should be doing. Self-deprecating, poetic and utterly engaging, his is a heroic journey taken for the rest of us too scared to leave our 9 to 5 office-bound existence.

Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Mike Carter grew up in Birmingham and now lives in south-west London, from where he commutes to his freelance shifts at the Guardian and Observer on a bicycle. Although still married to his motorbike, the capital's traffic jams, speed cameras and bendy buses have somewhat cooled the relationship.

„Über diesen Titel“ kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Verlag
Ebury Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0091923263
ISBN 13 
9780091923266
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
352
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Nicht verfügbar
Verantwortliche Person
Penguin Random House Ireland Limited
productsafety@penguin.co.uk

Morrison Chambers, 32 Nassau Street
Dublin
Irland

Weitere beliebte Ausgaben desselben Titels

9780091922689: Uneasy Rider: Travels Through a Mid-life Crisis

Vorgestellte Ausgabe

ISBN 10:  0091922682 ISBN 13:  9780091922689
Verlag: Ebury Press, 2008
Softcover