Over the Hills: : A Midlife Escape Across America by Bicycle
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Genres: History, Travel
Book Type: Hardcover
Author:
Genres: History, Travel
Book Type: Hardcover
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At the age of 54, David Lamb takes the reader on a journey across America as he traverses highways and back roads from his home in Alexandria, Virginia to Santa Monica, California.
Overweight and out of shape, he questions the wisdom of this trek - but not until he's on the road and committed. Early on, pride keeps him from turning back, but at some point his body begins to respond to the slow on-the-road training that biking 10 miles a day provides and he renews his purpose and resolve. Along the way the reader is treated to Lamb's funny, sometimes satirical - sometimes just crusty perspectives on life as well as short history lessons or facts about the many places he visits, or sometimes just about the things that pop into his head along the way.
Where Peter Jenkins, of Walk Across America fame, took us into the homes of strangers and delighted us with stories and insights into how these encounters changed Jenkins' life, David Lamb's journalism style treats us to more of a commentator's observations on life and culture in the 1990's. While Lamb isn't a storyteller in the same vein as Jenkins, he is a journalist with a wit and wisdom that readers of this type of book will likely enjoy.
Overweight and out of shape, he questions the wisdom of this trek - but not until he's on the road and committed. Early on, pride keeps him from turning back, but at some point his body begins to respond to the slow on-the-road training that biking 10 miles a day provides and he renews his purpose and resolve. Along the way the reader is treated to Lamb's funny, sometimes satirical - sometimes just crusty perspectives on life as well as short history lessons or facts about the many places he visits, or sometimes just about the things that pop into his head along the way.
Where Peter Jenkins, of Walk Across America fame, took us into the homes of strangers and delighted us with stories and insights into how these encounters changed Jenkins' life, David Lamb's journalism style treats us to more of a commentator's observations on life and culture in the 1990's. While Lamb isn't a storyteller in the same vein as Jenkins, he is a journalist with a wit and wisdom that readers of this type of book will likely enjoy.
