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The Man Who Would Stop at Nothing: Long-Distance Motorcycling's Endless Road Hardcover - 2011

by Melissa Holbrook Pierson

Here are the pleasures and perils of compulsive long-distance motorcycling and one man's mission to outride everyone else.


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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.

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  • Title The Man Who Would Stop at Nothing: Long-Distance Motorcycling's Endless Road
  • Author Melissa Holbrook Pierson
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition, 1
  • Pages 208
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, New York, NY
  • Date 2011-10
  • ISBN 9780393079043 / 039307904X
  • Weight 0.68 lbs (0.31 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 6.01 x 0.79 in (21.59 x 15.27 x 2.01 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Motorcyclists - United States, Motorcycling - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011026188
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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  • Booklist, 09/01/2011, Page 38
  • Kirkus Reviews, 10/01/2011, Page 0
  • Publishers Weekly, 07/25/2011, Page 0
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