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Motorcycle Travelogues
Is this book about motorcycles at all? One wonders. Some people skip over the motorcycle stuff, others skip over the philosophical stuff. But can they be separated? On the dozenth reading I still can't tell you, but I do like the packing list.
You've been trying to tell your friends what motorcycling is all about, but you just cant find the words, right? Well, let Melissa Holbrook Pierson say it for you. Everything she says, you identify with. Figures it would take a poet to explain it all...
Ted Simon is probably the world's best known motorcycle traveler, famous for covering 78,000 miles and touching 45 countries. He writes beautifully about travel, one experiences his joyous exuberance and the pain of tragedy, as he journeys the globe. Jupiter's Travels is a beautifully told story that almost ends too soon. No matter... there's a sequel, it's called Riding High, and it's the "deeper" story. Ted travels a lot now, promoting the book, giving slide shows and talks. Check his site for schedules.
This guy is a real South American hero, but before that he was just a restless young man who took off on a ratty old bike across his country, with a friend, and had some wild - I mean REALLY wild - times.
Jim Rogers wrote a book about traveling around the world on a motorcycle, with then-girlfriend Tabitha Estabrook in tow. By the way, she was in charge of the motorcycle maintenance, Jim was in charge of figuring out whether or not he might invest in the country. His observations are not those you can usually depend upon a travel writer to relate, but no less revealing for this perspective. Kind of like an even more adventurous version of The Economist (one of my favorite travel magazines). "I really liked China," he told me recently, before a speaking engagement in Vancouver, B.C. "They are opening up so quickly... people in the Western world ought to be teaching their children Chinese as a second language instead of Spanish or French."
The Guggenheim's motorcycle retrospective is a must for enthusiasts of all ilk. This is a gorgeous coffee table book with short histories and essays by the likes of Hunter Thompson and Melissa Holbrook Pierson. There are many many glossy photos of bikes from the first motorized bicycle to the latest glamor bike, the MV Agusta F4 (leave it to the Italians!). One of my favorites is a centerfold spread of the Vincent Black Shadow.
Helge Pederson is author of “10 Years on 2 Wheels" A photographer’s journey around the world, chronicling his motorcycle journey of 250,000 miles through 77 countries.
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