Bicycling Beyond the Divide
Two Journeys into the West
Farmer, Daryl
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
On a journey begun twenty years earlier, Daryl Farmer, a twenty-year-old two-time college dropout, did what lost men have so often done in this country: he headed west. Twenty years later and seventy pounds heavier, with the yellowing journals from that transformative five-thousand-mile bicycle trek in his pack, Farmer set out to retrace his path. This is his story of pursuing that distant summer and that distant dream of home, where home is endless space, a roof of big sky, and a bed of dry earth. Just as the years altered the man, so, too, have they altered the West, and Farmers second journey affords a unique perspective on these changesas well as on what lasts. Whether caught in a Colorado snowstorm or braving a Yellowstone herd of bison, kayaking with orcas in Puget Sound, trading Ninja moves with a homeless man in San Francisco, or getting the lowdown on aliens on Nevadas Extraterrestrial Highway, Farmer charts a moving landscape of people and places. This is the West where the natural world and personal character are inextricably linked, and where one mans ride into the past and present takes us to the heart of that ever-evolving connection.
AUTHOR BIO
Daryl Farmer has published essays, short stories, poems, and reviews in several journals including South Dakota Review and Prairie Schooner.
BOOK REVIEWS
“Bicycling beyond the Divide did what all great books do: it told me about me. In its tale of a journey made by two different men—both of them Daryl Farmer—this book offers us not only moving vistas and meaningful people, but also hope, that rarest of literary commodities these days. I didn''t want this to end.”—Bret Lott, author of Jewel
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0803220340
ISBN(13-digit): 9780803220348
Dewey Decimal: 814/.6
Library of Congress: 2007025087
Book Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 311
Paper Weight (lb): 1.45 lb
