Ebook: Riding with Ghosts
Author: Maka Gwen
- Tags: Maka Gwen, Travel, West (U. S.), Bicycle touring, West (U.S.), Bicycle touring, Mexico, Bicycle touring, Central America, West (U.S.), Description and travel, Maka Gwen, Bicycle touring, Travel, Central America, Mexico, West United States
- Year: 2010
- Publisher: Eye Classics
- City: Central America., London, U.K., Mexico., West (U.S.), West United States
- Edition: New ed.
- Language: English
- epub
Frank and often outrageous, this is an account of a 40-something Englishwoman's epic 4,000 mile cycle ride from Seattle to Mexico, via the snow-covered Rockies, mostly alone and camping in the wild. She runs appalling risks and copes in a gutsy, hilarious way with exhaustion, climatic extremes, dangerous animals, eccentrics, lechers, and a permanently saddle-sore backside. We share her deep involvement with the West's pioneering past, and with the tragic traces that history has left lingering on the land. When she rides the faded trails of the vanished American Indian nations she displays a strong sensitivity to the atmosphere of the spectacular landscape, as if the moments of its vibrant past are hanging in the air, only waiting for her to conjure them up vividlysometimes with humor, and frequently with passion. As she travels, the ghosts of Lewis and Clark, Chief Joseph and Geronimo, Custer and Crazy Horseall the legendary figures of the Old Westride with her.
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