Mud, Sweat, and Gears: A Rowdy Family Bike Adventure Across Canada on Seven Wheels (signed)

Halcottsville, New York: Breakaway Books, 2010. INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR directly on the title page. Very Good condition in a bright and shiny Very Good dust jacket (one 1/4 inch closed tear). NOT price clipped ($23.95). Photo illustrated throughout. By the author of METAL COWBOY and RIDING OUTSIDE THE LINES. Bound in the original two tone boards -- blue with yellow spine stamped in bright silver. From the dust jacket: "After seventeen years, who would road test a perfectly good marriage by putting it on a summer-long, self-contained bicycle adventure across Canada? Only the Metal Cowboy, of course. Beth Biagini Kurmaskie, the woman behind the man-child, has finally saddled up on her own volition if only to bring a bit of parental supervision to the mix. She struggles and stumbles along the way while celebrating summer, speed, the simple pleasures of a road trip powered by one's own muscles, and family -- what it means to be part of one stripped of the 'comforts and noise' of the modern world, riding sixteen feet of bicycle train. With three sons aboard, one celebrating his first birthday, a nursing mother finds her inner Xena Warrior Cyclist and all the reasons why she's stayed married to a whirling dervish of a husband… MUD, SWEAT, AND GEARS brings together absurd and sublime moments, introduces an American family to the wilds of Canada, uncovers choice characters (man and animal), and finds all the humor and pathos a Metal Cowboy adventure is famous for. If MOMENTUM IS YOUR FRIEND was about fathers, sons, and hometown heroes, then MUD, SWEAT, AND GEARS is about mothers, wives, family, and the glue that holds the world together. With an extra twist: revealing and outrageous footnotes from Beth throughout, filling in the backstories to many previous Metal Cowboy tales and seventeen years of marriage.". INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR. First Edition (so stated). Hardcover. Very Good condition/Very Good dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. 303pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.