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A bicycle ride across America during the 1976 Bicentennial summer, interwoven with Native American, pioneer, and ecological stories.
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cycling, bicycle-touring, Bicentennial, Bikecentennial, road trips, adventure, nature, environment, American history, Native Americans, conservation history, parks, forests, Americana, Cycling, American Revolution Bicentennial, 1976, Friendship, FictionPlaces
Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, South Dakota, North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ontario, District of ColumbiaTimes
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Stories of the Road takes the reader along on a good-humored American road trip, interwoven with Native American lore, pioneer history, and environmental tales. When the main characters, Tom Steadman and Kara Portola, set off on a lark to bicycle cross-country during the 1976 Bicentennial Summer, they have no idea what they are getting into. Starting out from the Oregon Coast, Tom and Kara travel through extraordinarily beautiful country -- the Pacific Northwest, Northern Rockies, Great Plains, and Great Lakes Region. Every day brings a new adventure -- drenching rains, steep climbs, mosquito swarms, encounters with bears, harsh desert terrain, the Teton Dam collapse, a mountain snowstorm, stampeding buffalo, plains headwinds, and dangerous criminals. The novel also explores the emotional experience of a long-distance trip, and the effects of the disappointments, fears, exhaustion, jealousies, and elation on the characters' relationship.
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Feedback?December 29, 2011 | Edited by LC Bot | import new book |
December 29, 2011 | Edited by LC Bot | import new book |
September 2, 2010 | Edited by Marie Sansone | corrected tag "and Washington, DC" to "District of Columbia" |
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