Night Driving: Invention of the Wheel and Other Blues, A Memoir - Couverture rigide

Dorworth, Dick

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1933009020 ISBN 13 : 9781933009025

Editeur : First Ascent Pr Llc, 2007

Synopsis

Rare book

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Dick Dorworth has skied and climbed in Europe, Asia, Alaska and South America; but he’s spent most of his life in the mountains of the West. He ski raced extensively from 1950 through 1965 and set the world record for speed on skis in Portillo, Chile in 1963. Dick taught and coached skiing for years, served as coach of the U.S. Ski Men’s Team. and later Director of the Aspen Mountain Ski School. Dorworth’s writing has appeared in Ski, Skiing, Powder, Snow Country, Mountain Gazette, Men’s Journal, Climbing, New West, Mariah, Wild Duck Review, Summit, and Backpacker. Dorworth is a reporter and regular columnist for the Idaho Mountain Express in Ketchum, his home base. Most winter days he skis, either on his favorite mountain, Baldy, or in the backcountry. In summer he climbs. He is a registered Democrat who thinks his party needs more calcium in its diet. Although a member of the Sierra Club, he thinks Deep Ecology is closer to the mark. Night Driving, Dorworth’s first book, was initially published in 2007 by First Ascent Press. This new reprint of Dick’s classic ode to the open road, its joys and terrors, is Dorworth’s third book to be published by Western Eye Press.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Night Driving is a hallucinatory essay, meditation, memoir and rave about long nights on the open road, across the West, down the length of South America, in many altered states, exploring multiple dimensions of freedom and the long tunnels of thought and introspection that run in parallel to the long tunnel of headlights on blacktop. First published in the mid-seventies by a classic “cult” publication, the Mountain Gazette, Night Driving has been rediscovered and reread by generations of footloose adventurers, vagabonds and brothers and sisters of the endless highway, ever since. This latest edition is available as a quality trade paperback and also in different electronic formats. Far beyond stream-of-consciousness story telling, Night Driving is a free-form classic of self-discovery and exploration, during endless, adventurous, and sleepless nights on the road.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: First Ascent Pr Llc
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1933009020
• ISBN 13: 9781933009025
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 254
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible