Dopo
Il veicolo perfetto - la motocicletta, Melissa Holbrook Pierson ha scritto un nuovo libro che torna al suo vecchio amore: l'andare in moto. Si ispira ad un personaggio reale, Jhon Ryan, diabetico, inarrestabile mototociclista.
Quando lo pubblicheranno in Italia (speriamo ben tradotto ..)?
The Man Who Would Stop at Nothing: Long-Distance Motorcycling's Endless Road
Here are the pleasures and perils of compulsive long-distance motorcycling—and one man's mission to outride everyone else.
For the 50,000 members of the Iron Butt Association—also known as the "World's Toughest Motorcyclists"—long-distance motorcycling is not a pastime but an obsession. These men and women push the limits of human endurance, often in rides of more than one thousand miles a day. Perhaps the most determined of them is John Ryan, a diabetic and a man who even in late middle age loves nothing better than riding impossible distances at no small risk to himself. But why? Melissa Holbrook Pierson, herself a longtime motorcyclist, chronicles the gratifications of long-distance riding as well as the challenges and solitude that accompany it. In seeking to understand why people strive so mightily to reach a goal with no reward other than having gotten there, Pierson gives us an intimate glimpse of a singularly independent yet supportive community and a revealing portrait of its most daring member.
ps: magari potrebbero ripubblicare anche Il veicolo perfetto (rivedendo la traduzione ...), come hanno fatto per il primo libro di Ted Simon, I viaggi di Jupiter.