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Riding with Rilke : reflections on motorcycles and books
- Title
- Riding with Rilke : reflections on motorcycles and books / Ted Bishop.
- Author
- Bishop, Edward.
- Publication
- New York : W. W. Norton, 2006.
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- Description
- 261 pages : map; 22 cm
- Summary
- "Ted Bishop took one last ride before the fall term. When he tried to pass a tractor trailer at 80 miles per hour, his motorcycle began to vibrate out of control. Bishop was flung into a ditch, breaking his back in two places, shattering a wrist and an ankle, and collapsing his lungs. When he came to in the hospital, his girlfriend, Hsing, told him, "You were dead in that ditch. You had no pulse when I found you."" "Left with time to write and reflect, Bishop produced Riding with Rilke, an account of the epic motorcycle trip he had completed just before the crash. Here, Bishop takes readers from Edmonton to Austin, through the classic landscapes of the American West, and to a few of America and Europe's most famous cities as he reconciles what it means to be both a road dog and a researcher. From descriptions of how he came to own a Ducati, or a discussion of D. H. Lawrence's novels, Bishop smoothly transitions between the riding life and the writing life, drawing convincing connections between the two seemingly disparate pursuits."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Note
- Originally published: Toronto : Viking Canada, 2005.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN
- 0393062619 (hardcover)
- LCCN
- 2006018910
- 9780393062618
- OCLC
- OCM70131098
- SCSB-5282959
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries