The Man Who Would Stop at Nothing: Long-distance Motorcycling's Endless Road

Details:

Author: Melissa Holbrook Pierson
Language: English
Pages: 191
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc

Size:

Weight: 0.7 Pounds
Length: 8.8 Inches
Width: 5.8 Inches
Height: 1 Inches

Publisher Notes:

For the 50,000 members of the Iron Butt Association-also known as the "World's Toughest Motorcyclists"-long-distance motorcycling is not a pastime but an obsession. These men and women push the limits of human endurance, often in rides of more than one thousand miles a day. Perhaps the most determined of them is John Ryan, a diabetic and a man who even in late middle age loves nothing better than riding impossible distances at no small risk to himself. But why? Melissa Holbrook Pierson, herself a longtime motorcyclist, chronicles the gratifications of long-distance riding as well as the challenges and solitude that accompany it. In seeking to understand why people strive so mightily to reach a goal with no reward other than having gotten there, Pierson gives us an intimate glimpse of a singularly independent yet supportive community and a revealing portrait of its most daring member.

Book Details Summary:

The title of this book is The Man Who Would Stop at Nothing: Long-distance Motorcycling's Endless Road and it was written by Melissa Holbrook Pierson . This edition of The Man Who Would Stop at Nothing: Long-distance Motorcycling's Endless Road is in a Hardcover format. This books publish date is October 2011 and it has a suggested retail price of $24.95. There are 191 pages in the book and it was published by W W Norton & Co Inc. The 10 digit ISBN is 039307904X and the 13 digit ISBN is 9780393079043.