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« on: June 21, 2007, 02:43:29 PM »
I've read "Long Way 'Round" and enjoyed it, liked the DVD as well. I know Neil Peart has a book out, bu I've not heard much good about it. Looking through the local bookstore, there's not much "reading" material on rides and adventures. What should I be looking for? I've seen the Peter Egan "Leanings" books, but aren't those just re-printed articles from the magazine? Suggest a good bike related book!
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« Reply #1 on: June 21, 2007, 03:02:31 PM »
Jupiters Travels by Ted Simon... Around the world on a Triumph Tiger (if I remember rightly) in 1972. Awesome read and amazing adventure story in a time when it wasn't necessarily "cool" to travel like it is now.

Edit to add: I've not read any of his other books but my Dad has and said that they're very good as well.
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« Reply #2 on: June 21, 2007, 04:03:01 PM »
I have read and highly recommend these:

Melissa Pierson - The Perfect Vehicle
Mark "Tiger" Edmonds - Longrider,
"                            " - The Ghosts of Scootertrash Past
John Bealby - Running with the Moon
Allen Noren - Storm
Patrick Symes - Chasing Che
Notch Miyake - Purple Mountains
Andre Carlstein - Odyssey to Ushuaia
Ted Bishop - Riding with Rilke
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« Reply #3 on: June 21, 2007, 04:10:50 PM »
The Places in Between -- Rory something or other.  No motorcycles but the guy walked across Afghanistan in 2002!  Good adventure travel read.
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« Reply #4 on: June 22, 2007, 06:45:05 AM »
Quote from: Motocentaur on June 21, 2007, 04:03:01 PM

I have read and highly recommend these:

Melissa Pierson - The Perfect Vehicle
Mark "Tiger" Edmonds - Longrider,
"                            " - The Ghosts of Scootertrash Past
John Bealby - Running with the Moon
Allen Noren - Storm
Patrick Symes - Chasing Che
Notch Miyake - Purple Mountains
Andre Carlstein - Odyssey to Ushuaia
Ted Bishop - Riding with Rilke


+1 on The Perfect Vehicle and Odyssey to Ushuaia.

"One Man Caravan" by Fulton jr.
"Motorcycle Diaries" by Che Gevarra
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« Reply #5 on: June 22, 2007, 06:51:29 AM »
Already a thread with some great recommendations
http://www.sport-touring.net/forums/index.php/topic,10329.0.html


Oh, OK....
My Short Wanderlust book list...

Travels with Charlie: In Search of America        
John Steinbeck
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9780140053203&itm=1

Blue Highways          
William Heat Moon
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9780316353298&itm=1

The Long Way Around:Chasing Shadows Across the World (Book or Movie)      
Charley Boorman, Robert Uhlig

The Motorcycle Diaries: A Latin American Diary    
Ernest Che Guevara
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9781876175702&itm=2

Wow...gonna keep checking here for new books to buy!!!

 
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« Reply #6 on: June 22, 2007, 06:57:24 AM »
Quote from: BHW on June 21, 2007, 02:43:29 PM

I've read "Long Way 'Round" and enjoyed it, liked the DVD as well. I know Neil Peart has a book out, bu I've not heard much good about it. Looking through the local bookstore, there's not much "reading" material on rides and adventures. What should I be looking for? I've seen the Peter Egan "Leanings" books, but aren't those just re-printed articles from the magazine? Suggest a good bike related book!


Yo....lots of selection here:

http://www.whitehorsepress.com/

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« Reply #7 on: June 22, 2007, 07:11:48 AM »
Under and Alone. Story about a US Marshal that infiltrates and eventually becomes a full-patch member of the Mongols. I read it a few months ago, and it's been passed between nearly every member of my family. It's really well written with plenty of dialogue and less of the blow-by-blow in Lavigne's books:

http://www.amazon.com/Under-Alone-Undercover-Infiltrated-Motorcycle/dp/1400060842
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« Reply #8 on: June 22, 2007, 07:41:19 AM »
Any On Any Sunday DVDs.  Any Isle of Man, particularly an 04? following a yank there for the race.  Faster.   WHITEHORSEPRESS??  Aerostitch Riders Warehouse catalog.
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« Reply #9 on: June 22, 2007, 07:47:30 AM »
Quote from: 1moreroad on June 21, 2007, 04:10:50 PM

The Places in Between -- Rory something or other.  No motorcycles but the guy walked across Afghanistan in 2002!  Good adventure travel read.


I may have to check it out, this months National Geographic Explorer magazine had an article about him. Sounds interesting
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« Reply #10 on: June 22, 2007, 09:01:02 AM »
Quote from: black hills on June 22, 2007, 07:47:30 AM

I may have to check it out, this months National Geographic Explorer magazine had an article about him. Sounds interesting


Rory Stewart.  He just recently finished a similar adventure in Iraq, The Prince of Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq.  Haven't read it yet.

Bill Bryson, The Lost Continent
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« Reply #11 on: June 22, 2007, 11:15:25 AM »
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Rory Stewart.  He just recently finished a similar adventure in Iraq, The Prince of Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq.  Haven't read it yet.

Bill Bryson, The Lost Continent


ANYTHING by Bill Bryson!!!
ALL OF Tim Dorseys books
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« Reply #12 on: June 22, 2007, 11:31:36 AM »
No one has mentioned Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance yet?  For shame.  Wink
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« Reply #13 on: June 22, 2007, 11:37:15 AM »
Quote from: Headmanbrewing on June 22, 2007, 11:31:36 AM

No one has mentioned Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance yet?  For shame.  Wink


I tried reading it a couple times and quit. Years later I finished it, Iwasn't impressed?? Ya, I got it, but it just seemed to drag on??
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« Reply #14 on: June 22, 2007, 11:40:25 AM »
Quote from: Headmanbrewing on June 22, 2007, 11:31:36 AM

No one has mentioned Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance yet?  For shame.  Wink


Lots of mention of it here...  http://www.sport-touring.net/forums/index.php/topic,10329.0.html

I liked his sequel a little better, Lila!
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« Reply #15 on: June 22, 2007, 12:04:53 PM »
Quote from: DucDave on June 22, 2007, 11:40:25 AM


I liked his sequel a little better, Lila!


That's interesting.  I got Lila several years ago and had a hard time with it.  Maybe I'll go back and try again.

And whoever said Blue Highways, +1  Thumbsup
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« Reply #16 on: June 22, 2007, 01:57:18 PM »
I just stumbled upon this one yesterday (haven't read it but curious):

http://mopedtosouthamerica.com/

Can you imagine how long and slow a ride that was? I can't.
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« Reply #17 on: June 22, 2007, 08:32:08 PM »
I stumbled across Under and Alone when it was a new release...and picked it up. I thought it was a very interesting book..very entertaining.

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Under and Alone. Story about a US Marshal that infiltrates and eventually becomes a full-patch member of the Mongols. I read it a few months ago, and it's been passed between nearly every member of my family. It's really well written with plenty of dialogue and less of the blow-by-blow in Lavigne's books:

http://www.amazon.com/Under-Alone-Undercover-Infiltrated-Motorcycle/dp/1400060842
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« Reply #18 on: June 22, 2007, 11:43:01 PM »
I read "Zen and the Art..." years ago, and loved it...I've read it again since.

I've read Pierson's "The Perfect Vehicle," Peart's "Ghost Rider," and Bishop's "Riding with Rilke" all within the past few years, and while all are good reads, I liked "Riding with Rilke" the best (and "Ghost Rider" the least, it's just a bit too introspective for me).
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« Reply #19 on: June 23, 2007, 07:11:18 AM »
Hunter S Thompson started with Hell's Angel's. Liked his later books better.
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