Discovering the Us on a Bicycle

Discovering the Us on a Bicycle
Author: Edward Abair
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2015-10-16
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1491774215

With $250 in his pocket, a bicycle, and a pack weighing thirty-seven pounds, author Edward Abair set off for this adventure of a lifetime in 1972. Twenty-seven years old, this teacher and former Army medic bicycled 5,800 miles alone from Long Beach, California, to Miami, Florida, to Boston, Massachusetts. In Discovering the US on a Bicycle, Abair shares a recap of his travels on that trip. He tells how he burned in 110-degree Southwest deserts, crossed the rugged West, ascended the Continental Divide, fed Mississippi mosquitoes, poured sweat in the humid swamplands of the South, and witnessed the devastation of a hurricane in Pennsylvania. On the way, he slept in river washes, abandoned motels, fire stations, jails, a river park with water moccasins, barns, and under porch roofs. Forty years later, Abair kept a promise to travel the northern United States on the Lewis and Clark Trail in reverse from Astoria, Oregon, to St. Louis, Missouri. This time, he used modern equipment and had a wife supporting him in an automobile. At age 68, he tackled the rollercoaster roads of the Missouri River watershed, with painful knees and a sore rear end. With age and experience, he shares observations of finding the people and adventures from small town America to the St. Louis Gateway Arch.

The Mechanical Horse

The Mechanical Horse
Author: Margaret Guroff
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2018-01-04
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 147731587X

In this lively cultural history, Margaret Guroff reveals how the bicycle has transformed American society, from making us mobile to empowering people in all avenues of life. Book jacket.

Rumble Yell

Rumble Yell
Author: Brian David Bruns
Publisher:
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2013
Genre: Bicycle touring
ISBN: 9780985663513

The world's biggest bike ride. 1 week. 115 degrees. 500 miles. 15,000 riders. One very important lesson. RUMBLE YELL is the hilarious new book about RAGBRAI . Finally enthusiasts, armchair cyclists, and adventure widows can live the full experience. No sweat. No lube. Just laughs. The rollicking, true story of two men rekindling an old friendship after twenty years. Foolishly, they choose to reconnect over a hometown tradition that just happens to be the world's biggest bike ride. 500 miles of biking during the hottest week of the year humidity 100%, bugs 1000% seemed like the ideal way to 'get to know you' again. Their plans are waylaid by a last-minute addition: an outrageous, mysterious sailor named Cheek. His presence is not only intrusive, but utterly disastrous.

Nova Scotia & the Maritimes by Bike

Nova Scotia & the Maritimes by Bike
Author: Walter Sienko
Publisher: Seattle, Wash. : The Mountaineers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1995
Genre: Bicycle touring
ISBN: 9780898864427

Nova Scotia is fast becoming one of the hottest destinations for cycling enthusiasts, and this book will give you all the inspiration you need to get up and go! This is the first definitive guide to cycling the province and its surrounding coastal regions. Thorough and up-to-date, it presents complete descriptions and mileage logs for 21 tours (15 of them loops) through Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland. Ranging from one to seven days in length, the trips can be linked for longer outings.

A Bike Trip Across America

A Bike Trip Across America
Author: Patrick McGinty
Publisher:
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2020-03-24
Genre:
ISBN: 9781733067515

An adventurer overcomes his fear of attempting the seemingly impossible goal of biking across America. He puts you on the bike seat in a journey of discovery. You will experience, through his eyes, epic landscapes, amazing people, overcoming adversity, and the great triumph of achieving the dream of a solo bike ride across the USA.

Bicycle Diaries

Bicycle Diaries
Author: David Byrne
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2010-09-28
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1101464399

"...an engaging book: part diary, part manifesto." The Guardian A round-the-world bicycle tour with one of the most original artists of our day. Urban bicycling has become more popular than ever as recession-strapped, climate-conscious city dwellers reinvent basic transportation. In this wide-ranging memoir, artist/musician and co-founder of Talking Heads David Byrne--who has relied on a bike to get around New York City since the early 1980s--relates his adventures as he pedals through and engages with some of the world's major cities. From Buenos Aires to Berlin, he meets a range of people both famous and ordinary, shares his thoughts on art, fashion, music, globalization, and the ways that many places are becoming more bike-friendly. Bicycle Diaries is an adventure on two wheels conveyed with humor, curiosity, and humanity.

Discovering U. S. History

Discovering U. S. History
Author: Tim McNeese
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Total Pages: 137
Release: 2010
Genre: Cowboys
ISBN: 1438130503

Focuses on the history of the South post-civil war as well as the old west.

Mastering Project Discovery

Mastering Project Discovery
Author: Elliot Bendoly
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2024-04-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1040011551

Introducing a comprehensive approach to invigorate project leadership, this book provides a framework – the OUtCoMES Cycle – for developing, managing, advancing, and optimizing engineering and analytics projects. All too often, issues of moral hazard and completion bias prevent engineering and analytics managers and team leaders from asking the critical question 'What’s the problem?', before committing time, energy, and resources to solve it. This book draws attention to the definition, structuring, option consideration and ultimately the addressing of the right problems, exploring the OUtCoMES Cycle framework that facilitates and energizes systematic thinking, knowledge sharing, and on-the-fly adjustment with an explicit focus on the maximization of value and ROI. Each chapter includes discussions and lessons in analytical and engineering problem identification, problem structuring, iterative problem development (mental and computational) and problem resolution, at least three embedded real-world case studies, and a closing 'Practitioner’s Recap' to contextualize key chapter takeaways. Written by a team of established academic scholars and practicing analysts and engineers, this is an accessible and culture-shifting action guide for instructors interested in training the next generation of project and analytics leaders, students of analytics and engineering, as well as practicing project leaders and principals.