The Perfect Vehicle
What It Is about Motorcycles
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Baker & Taylor
Sorts out the myths, rituals, and attractions of motorbiking, tracing the history of the vehicle and its riders--especially women--and recounting the author's riding life
Norton Pub
"This book, a polished, winding meditation on the theory and fractiousness of … More »
Sorts out the myths, rituals, and attractions of motorbiking, tracing the history of the vehicle and its riders--especially women--and recounting the author's riding life
Norton Pub
"This book, a polished, winding meditation on the theory and fractiousness of … More »
Baker & Taylor
Sorts out the myths, rituals, and attractions of motorbiking, tracing the history of the vehicle and its riders--especially women--and recounting the author's riding life
Norton Pub
"This book, a polished, winding meditation on the theory and fractiousness of motorcycles, celebrates both their eccentric history and the wary pleasures of touring."—The New Yorker
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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Sorts out the myths, rituals, and attractions of motorbiking, tracing the history of the vehicle and its riders--especially women--and recounting the author's riding life
Norton Pub
"This book, a polished, winding meditation on the theory and fractiousness of motorcycles, celebrates both their eccentric history and the wary pleasures of touring."—The New Yorker
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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Imprint:
New York - WW Norton & Co
Pages:
240
ISBN:
0393318095, 9780393318098
Language:
English
Notes:
"First published as a Norton paperback 1998"--T.p. verso
Statement of responsibility:
Melissa Holbrook Pierson
Characteristics:
240 p. :,ill. ;,21 cm.
Author (Original Script):
Pierson, Melissa Holbrook
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