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- Titre
- A Ride Across America: A 4,000-Mile Adventure Through the Small Towns and Big Issues of the USA
- Auteur
- Parker, Simon
- Éditeur
- Duckworth
- Année de publication
- 2025
- État de l'article
- Like New
- Reliure
- paperback
- Langue
- anglais
- ISBN à 10 chiffres
- 1914613872
- ISBN à 13 chiffres
- 9781914613876
- Poids de l'article
- 300 grammes
'An absolutely brilliant book! One of the best I've read all year' Paul Ross, talkSPORT
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A compelling, funny, and highly topical account of a bike ride through the heartlands of America.Frustrated by the shallow headlines focusing only on Trump, borders and division, award-winning travel writer Simon Parker decided that to better understand today's USA he would have to travel across it, slowly.
Did the America of his teenage dreams really exist? And was it really as fractured as the politics and headlines suggest?
On his journey to find out, Simon cycled 4,373 miles through eleven states and numerous extreme weather events, via mountains and prairie lands, forests and freeways. Along the way he visited homes, schools, churches and rodeos, meeting hundreds of (extra)ordinary Americans behind the clickbait news posts to discover a nation whose portrayal has become vastly oversimplified.
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Praise for A Ride Across America
'Parker magnificently chronicles the America he encounters, a divided, disfranchised collection of states he fears for but comes to love for their generosity, community spirit and sense of hope'
Ben East, Observer
'From overheated bras to over doctored coffee, America's charming oddness summed up in a blast of entertainment and information. A wonderful companion to America, thoughtful, fun and always willing to be surprised by a nation of dizzying complexity'
BBC
'A fabulous book. Simon Parker's cycling odyssey takes you to the heart of modern America'
Express
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À propos de l’auteur
Simon Parker is a British travel writer, author, filmmaker, public speaker and broadcast journalist, working across a wide range of themes and subjects. He has reported on stories as diverse as 'migrant crisis' in Greece and social inequality in the barrios of Northern Colombia. He's paraglided solo through the Andes and driven a rickshaw the length of India. His first book, Riding Out, was published in 2022. All his travels and adventures are shared with his followers on social media: @simonwiparker or learn more from www.simonwparker.co.uk
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