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Zero to Sixty: The Motorcycle Journey of a Lifetime
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Zero to Sixty: The Motorcycle Journey of a Lifetime Paperback - 1999

by Gary Paulsen

Nearing 60, diagnosed with heart disease, and feeling his mortality, Paulsen bought his first Harley and rode from the present into his past, through the landmarks of his singular life.


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Nearing sixty, diagnosed with heart disease and feeling his mortality, Gary Paulsen buys his first Harley-Davidson and rides from his home in New Mexico to Alaska-and from the present into his past, through the landmarks of a singular life. Paulsen's journey is peopled with familiar faces, from the tough cop who saved him from juvenile delinquency to the prostitute whose career advice stopped him from quitting the army. And the work he does while on his bike-the work of mapping his life to find meaning-is of a piece with the pure sweat and muscle of youthful days spent on farms in Minnesota, or at the bottom of septic tank pits in Colorado, or wrangling dogsleds through the Alaskan wilderness. Amid the silence and beauty of running the road on his Harley, Paulsen celebrates the comforts of hard work, the thrill of challenge met bravely, and the peculiar joys of life lived to its fullest.

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Nearing sixty, diagnosed with heart disease and feeling his mortality, Gary Paulsen buys his first Harley-Davidson and rides from his home in New Mexico to Alaska-and from the present into his past, through the landmarks of a singular life. Paulsen's journey is peopled with familiar faces, from the tough cop who saved him from juvenile delinquency to the prostitute whose career advice stopped him from quitting the army. And the work he does while on his bike-the work of mapping his life to find meaning-is of a piece with the pure sweat and muscle of youthful days spent on farms in Minnesota, or at the bottom of septic tank pits in Colorado, or wrangling dogsleds through the Alaskan wilderness. Amid the silence and beauty of running the road on his Harley, Paulsen celebrates the comforts of hard work, the thrill of challenge met bravely, and the peculiar joys of life lived to its fullest.

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IT DID NOT START WITH HARLEYS.

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  • Title Zero to Sixty: The Motorcycle Journey of a Lifetime
  • Author Gary Paulsen
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Houghton Mifflin, New York
  • Date 1999-06-28
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780156007047 / 0156007045
  • Weight 0.53 lbs (0.24 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.97 x 5.28 x 0.59 in (20.24 x 13.41 x 1.50 cm)
  • Reading level 1200
  • Library of Congress subjects Authors, American - 20th century, West (U.S.) - Description and travel
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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"[Paulsen's] anecdotes, by turns lyrical, moving and hilarious, reflect a rare clarity of mind and expression and are written in a stark, driving prose style . . . always leavened by a wry, often self-deprecating humor. . . . A book oddly magical from start to finish.-The Washington Post

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  • Ingram Advance, 06/01/1999, Page 33
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