Working Parts
 From Amazon.com: Working Parts examines the life of a smart, funny, accomplished woman who finally faces the hard truth that, at the age of 27, she cannot read. Lori Taylor makes a pact with her best friend, fellow bike mechanic Miguel, that she will [... more]
CDN$12.95
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Purple Mountains: America from a Motorcycle
Who published this guy??!!: I bought this book while planning my own bike trip across Canada. Bases on the previous review, I was sure it would be great. I was very disapointed. I don't mind persevering through uninspired writing if I am getting good [... more]
CDN$20.02
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Detours: Life, DEath, and Divorce on the Road to Sturgis
well-written morality tale: Author Richard la Plante wanted to once live his American dream of attending the annual motorcycle rally in Sturgis, South Dakota. However, the now fiftyish Richard knew his time to consummate his dream apparently passed and [... more]
CDN$17.95
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Escape Routes: Further Adventure Writings of David Roberts
From Amazon.com: David Roberts writes lyrically and expressively about his adventures in the mountains. But more than an authoritative voice on what if feels like to scale seemingly impossible routes of rock and ice, he brings a sense of passion and [... more]
CDN$18.95
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Flaming Iguanas: An Illustrated All-Girl Road Novel Thing
Just too wierd for me: I bought this book based on the 11 pages available online from Amazon. Its interesting, funny in a wierd sort of way and sounded intriguing. I was looking for a kind of journey description with the funny wierd things that happen [... more]
CDN$18.50
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On the trail of Marco Polo: Along the Silk Road by bicycle
A mixed bag from the Silk Road: "On the Trail of Marco Polo" recounts Brady Fotherington's 1997 bike trip along the Silk Road from China into Pakistan and India with a side trip into Afghanistan. Fotheringham also recounts some of the history [... more]
CDN$18.95
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The Netherlands
DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THE 2004 EDITION: The most important thing about a travel guide is its usefullness as a reference tool: this book stinks in that regard. The table of contents has gone from 2.5 pages (2001 ed.) to a mere half page, hidden on [... more]
CDN$26.04
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Europe by Bike: 18 Tours Geared for Discovery
Take the book and bike!: I used their first edition for my first bike trip in 1991, and can't recommend it enough. I really didn't have any other bike book then, and this one got me across Italy, through part of France, and across Germany. I used the [... more]
CDN$16.95
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The Wreck of the Mary Deare
for easy sailing fiction, this is as good as it gets!: Classic! Like several other reviewers, I just stumbled on an ancient paperback copy of this in a used bookstore, and what a little treasure it is! hard to believe that in 1956 you could pick this [... more]
CDN$70.18
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