A Ride Across America - A 4,000-Mile Adventure Through the Small Towns and Big Issues of the USA

"On the eve of the 2024 election, a fascinating - and frequently funny - tale of one man cycling the breadth of America. Frustrated by the shallow headlines focusing only on Trump, guns and divisions, award-winning travel writer Simon Parker decided that to better understand the USA he would have to travel across it, slowly. Did the America of his teenage dreams really exist? And was it really as fractured as the headlines suggest? On his journey to find out, Simon cycled 4,373 miles through eleven states and numerous extreme weather events, via mountains and prairie lands, forests and freeways. Along the way he visited homes, schools, churches and rodeos, meeting hundreds of (extra)ordinary Americans behind the clickbait news posts to discover a nation whose portrayal has become vastly oversimplified."--

Summary

Compelling, funny and highly topical account of a bike ride through the heartlands of America, in the company of its endlessly surprising citizens

Product details

• Authors: Simon Parker
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.07.2024
• EAN: 9781914613593
• ISBN: 978-1-914613-59-3
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > Motorsport, motorcycle sport, bicycle sport, aviation sport; USA, TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, TRAVEL / Special Interest / Adventure, Expeditions, SPORTS & RECREATION / Cycling, TRAVEL / United States / General, Expeditions: popular accounts, Travel writing, cycling, United States of America, USA, Cycling: general and touring