The Perfect Vehicle: What It Is About Motorcycles - Softcover

Pierson, Melissa Holbrook

 
9780393318098: The Perfect Vehicle: What It Is About Motorcycles
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0393318095 ISBN 13: 9780393318098
Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

In a book that is "a must for anyone who has loved a motorcycle" (Oliver Sacks), Melissa Pierson captures in vivid, writerly prose the mysterious attractions of motorcycling. She sifts through myth and hyperbole: misrepresentations about danger, about the type of people who ride and why they do so. The Perfect Vehicle is not a mere recitation of facts, nor is it a polemic or apologia. Its vivid historical accounts-the beginnings of the machine, the often hidden tradition of women who ride, the tale of the defiant ones who taunt death on the racetrack-are intertwined with Pierson's own story, which, in itself, shows that although you may think you know what kind of person rides a motorcycle, you probably don't.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Melissa Holbrook Pierson is the author of The Perfect Vehicle, The Place You Love Is Gone, Dark Horses and Black Beauties, and The Man Who Would Stop at Nothing and The Secret History of Kindness. She lives in Shokan, New York.

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Verlag
W. W. Norton & Company
Erscheinungsdatum
1998
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0393318095
ISBN 13 
9780393318098
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
241
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