Bicycling beyond the Divide: Two Journeys into the West (Outdoor Lives)

Bicycling beyond the Divide: Two Journeys into the West (Outdoor Lives)
by Daryl Farmer

Bicycling beyond the Divide: Two Journeys into the West (Outdoor Lives)
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Author: Daryl Farmer
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-03-01
ISBN: 0803220340
Number of pages: 331
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press

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Book Review: enjoyable read for those interested in the modern American West
Summary: 4 Stars

I have not been on a bicycle since I was thirteen, but no matter. This book was an enjoyable and enlightening tale of one man's second journey through the American West (Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, and Utah) over the course of a summer in 2005. He made the same journey 20 years earlier. Great armchair traveling!

Summary of Bicycling beyond the Divide: Two Journeys into the West (Outdoor Lives)

On a journey begun twenty years earlier, Daryl Farmer, a twenty-year-old two-time college dropout, did what lost men have so often done in this country: he headed west. Twenty years later and seventy pounds heavier, with the yellowing journals from that transformative five-thousand-mile bicycle trek in his pack, Farmer set out to retrace his path. This is his story of pursuing that distant summer and that distant dream of home, where home is endless space, a roof of big sky, and a bed of dry earth.
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Just as the years altered the man, so, too, have they altered the West, and Farmer's second journey affords a unique perspective on these changes-as well as on what lasts. Whether caught in a Colorado snowstorm or braving a Yellowstone herd of bison, kayaking with orcas in Puget Sound, trading Ninja moves with a homeless man in San Francisco, or getting the lowdown on aliens on Nevada's Extraterrestrial Highway, Farmer charts a moving landscape of people and places. This is the West where the natural world and personal character are inextricably linked, and where one man's ride into the past and present takes us to the heart of that ever-evolving connection.
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