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Perfect Vehicle by Melissa Holbrook Pierson (1997, Hardcover) 
Perfect Vehicle by Melissa Holbrook Pierson (1997, Hardcover)
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Publication Date: 1997-04-01
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 039304064X
ISBN-13: 9780393040647
Product ID: EPID1576045
Description: A treatise on motorcycles that conveys the joy of riding.
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Synopsis
A treatise on motorcycles that conveys the joy of riding.

Details
Publication Date:1997-04-01

Size
Length:240 pages
Height:8.8 in
Width:6.5 in
Thickness:1.0 in
Weight:16.0 oz

Publisher's Note
They could only be called "charismatic objects": the feelings they call up in us are nothing short of primal. Those who are crazy about these sleek machines form a fascinating subset of society, segregated by the arcana and rituals of their motorcycling life even as they manifest an essential humanness by their devotion to an activity that concentrates some instinctual drive towards tribalism. It is this paradox that led Melissa Pierson, over the course of ten years of riding her motorcycle in the United States and Europe, to want to capture amazingly, for the first time in the hundred-year history of the motorcycle the specific what and why of motorcycling.

Industry Reviews
"If you want to know what's so great about riding motorcycles (without actually doing it), read the first chapter and the postscript of [this book]."
New York Times Book Review - Carol Peace Robins (03/01/1998)

"This book, a polished, winding meditation on the theory and fractiousness of motorcycles, celebrates both their eccentric history and the wary pleasures of touring."
Dossey

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