The Perfect Vehicle: What It Is About Motorcycles - Paperback
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:W. W. Norton & CompanyISBN-13:9780393318098ISBN-10:393318095UPC:9780393318098Book Category:TransportationBook Subcategory:MotorcyclesBook Topic:HistorySize:8.26 x 6.15 x 0.67 inchesWeight:0.67Product ID:SC2P3BPJ1K
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.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:W. W. Norton & CompanyISBN-13:9780393318098ISBN-10:393318095UPC:9780393318098Book Category:TransportationBook Subcategory:MotorcyclesBook Topic:HistorySize:8.26 x 6.15 x 0.67 inchesWeight:0.67Product ID:SC2P3BPJ1K
Pierson, Melissa Holbrook: - 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.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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