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Travel Essays & Travelogues

Motorcycle Messengers

Tales from the Road by Writers who Ride

afterword by Jeremy Kroeker

foreword by Ted Simon

Publisher
OSCILLATOR PRESS
Initial publish date
Oct 2015
Category
Essays & Travelogues, Adventure, Road Travel
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780991825011
    Publish Date
    Oct 2015
    List Price
    $20.00

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Description

Motorcycle Messengers is a collection of travel stories from some of the leading writers in the genre . . . plus a few people you've never heard of. Consider it a sample pack of authors. Read a story by the fire and discover your new favourite motorcycle travel writer.

 

  • Lois Pryce exploits her dead grandmother and an imaginary husband to access the Congo.
  • Neil Peart finds his rhythm through the curves of North Carolina.
  • Paddy Tyson numbs his fear of crocodiles with a few drinks in Australia.
  • Carla King rides with a screaming, doped-up trucker in China.
  • Sam Manicom is forced out of country by the military in Sudan.
  • Geoff Hill breaks a Royal Enfield, falls in love, and becomes a hookah hooligan in Iran.
  • Jeremy Kroeker yearns to slap a rain gear designer in Slovenia.
  • Ted Bishop tricks himself into one final ride through the United States.
  • Mark Richardson puts his foot up and makes connections in Rwanda.
  • Jordan Hasselmann stares down the barrel of a wooden gun—and possibly a real one, too—in Guatemala.
  • Christopher P. Baker nearly crashes as he crushes crustaceans in Cuba.
  • Ted Simon ponders humanity while observing a rescue at sea off the coast of Malaysia.

About the authors

Jeremy Kroeker is a freelance writer, a speaker, mountaineer and the award-winning author of Motorcycle Therapy – A Canadian Adventure in Central America. With his motorcycle, he has travelled to over 30 countries while managing to do at least one outrageously stupid thing in every one. He has evaded police in Egypt, tasted teargas in Israel, scrambled through minefields in Bosnia and Lebanon and wrangled a venomous snake in Austria. One time he got a sliver in El Salvador. His writing has appeared in newspapers such as the Toronto Star, Winnipeg Free Press and Calgary Herald, and in U.S. magazines such as Alpinist, and Outrider Journal. He was born in Manitoba, grew up in Saskatchewan and currently lives in Canmore, Alberta.

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