Full name: Riding with Rilke: Reflections on Motorcycles and Books

Author: Ted Bishop Year: 2005 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Memoirs, Non Fiction, Travel Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780393062618 9780393330748 0393062619 0393330745

Ted Bishop took one last ride before the fall term. When he tried to pass a tractor-trailer at 80 miles per hour, his motorcycle began to vibrate out of control. Bishop was flung into a ditch, breaking his back in two places, shattering a wrist and ankle, and collapsing his lungs. Left with time to write and reflect, Bishop produced Riding with Rilke, an account of the epic motorcycle trip he had completed just before the crash. Here, Bishop takes readers from Edmonton to Austin, through the classic landscapes of the American West, and to a few of America and Europe's most famous cities as he reconciles what it means to be both a road dog and a researcher. Whether describing the shock of holding Virginia Woolf's suicide note in the British Library or the outlaw thrill of cruising small American towns on his Ducati, Bishop meditates with wit and honesty on the tangled interplay of life, work, and art. Similar books: Honeymoon with My Brother by Franz Wisner Travels by Michael Crichton Little Princes by Conor Grennan Hiking Through by Paul Stutzman Kabul Beauty School by Deborah Rodriguez The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street by Helene Hanff Dispatches from Pluto by Richard Grant Notes from Walnut Tree Farm by Roger Deakin A Woman in the Polar Night by Christiane Ritter Used and Rare by Lawrence Goldstone The Year of Living Danishly by Helen Russell At Home in the World by Tsh Oxenreider Stargazing by Peter Hill Sir Vidia's Shadow by Paul Theroux The Tenth Island by Diana Marcum Just Passin' Thru by Winton Porter Paris Letters by Janice MacLeod My Invented Country by Isabel Allende If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name by Heather Lende An African in Greenland by Tete-Michel Kpomassie