An American Sketch is a 76,000-word travelogue describing a four-month, 16,500-mile motorcycle tour of North America in 2024. While motorcycling and landscape are the common denominators, the articles also comment on the cultural, social, and political landscape, past and present. Food and drink feature prominently. More specifically, the author went to a lot of bars and restaurants...The author, David Tymm returned to riding motorcycles in 2000, aged 37, when he was still young en...

Kasih is a robotic child drawn into a project to discover her secrets, and into a war that threatens all humanity, including her own.The murder of her family by Union troops in Bandung leaves the rebels’ robotics experts, Losana Maraiwai and Wei Dingxiang, with nobody to explain Kasih’s design but Kasih herself.She is not what anyone expected. In Darwin, Dingxiang suspects a magic trick may explain away her human-like artificial intelligence. In Beijing, Union politician Ga...

For thirty years drummer author and songwriter Neil Peart had wanted to write a book about “the biggest journey of all in my restless existence: the life of a touring musician.” Finally the right time and the right tour . . . In the summer of 2004 after three decades twenty gold albums and thousands of performances spanning four continents the band Rush embarked on a celebratory 30th Anniversary World Tour. The “R30” tour traveled to nine countries where the band performed fifty-seven show...

Whether navigating the backroads of Louisiana or Thuringia, exploring the snowy Quebec woods, or performing onstage at Rush concerts, Neil Peart has stories to tell. His first volume in this series, Far and Away, combined words and images to form an intimate, insightful narrative that won many readers.Now Far and Near brings together reflections from another three years of an artist’s life as he celebrates seasons, landscapes, and characters, travels roads and tra...

At his brother's wedding in 2002, 30-year-old Josh Kench sat with a cigarette in one hand and a beer in the other, and announced that he was going to do the Coast to Coast. His pronouncement was met with derision, but he's proved his doubters wrong.Josh won the 2010 Lake Taupo Extreme Enduro, covering a mind-numbing eight laps of the 160-kilometre course in 55 hours. And that's only the start of it. In June 2011, this 39-year-old plumber lined up at the start of the Race Across Ame...

What happens when you swap the nine-to-five for two wheels and a journey of a lifetime?Terrified of the prospect of a life spent behind a desk, without challenge or excitement, Leon takes off to cross America on an overloaded bicycle packed with everything but common sense.Over five months and 6000 miles, he cycled from New York to Seattle and then on to the Mexican border, facing tornados, swollen river crossings, wild roaming buffalo and one hungry black ...

**Finalist for the NBCC Award for CriticismCombining history, reportage, and nature writing with intimate moments of reflection, Greyhound tells of the journey from miscarriage to parenthood, and the purpose creativity gives to our lives when we feel purposeless**In 2006, in the wake of several miscarriages, Joanna Pocock traveled by Greyhound bus across the United States from Detroit to Los Angeles. Seventeen years later, she undertakes the same journey, revisitin...

Ten More for the Road is the third book in my "…for the Road" series of motorcycle adventure and travel stories and observations from the open road.I've presented each story in the same easy reading style as the assortments in my other two "…for the Road" books -- Ten for the Road and Another Ten for the Road.You can find a description of these and my other books at this link to my website -- /www.motorcycle-gear-and-riding...

A TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERShortlisted for the Penderyn Music Book Prize 2026The Herald Music Book of the YearA Guardian Top 5 Music Book of the YearA Classic Pop Music Book of the YearA

At Buffalo Bill's there was all manner of grilled and fried food, and this motorcycling connoisseur had a hard job choosing his burger.At Buffalo Bill's there was all manner of grilled and fried food, and this motorcycling connoisseur had a hard job choosing his burger. I decided to make the meal educational. Many will be wondering about the difference between buffalo and bison. Are they the same animal? the answer is a resounding no! Bison comes with a pickle, lettuce, melted chees...

If your office building were on fire, would you lock the door and keep working? If you were unhappy with your career, would you pedal a rental commuter bike cross-country to see what else was out there? What if a bloodthirsty axe murderer punched you in the face? Is that the city where you'd start a new business? Jeffrey Tanenhaus makes a lot of questionable decisions in pursuit of a fresh start, but they add up to one wild ride in this true story of the all-American adventure that has eve...

A celebration of America's most historic highway, in words and pictures.Winding through the rugged heartland of the American West, Route 66 has resonated for generations in hardscrabble tales of hopeful seekers of new homes and new lives. It also inspired Alan and Claudia Heller, longtime residents of Duarte, a California town along Route 66, to hitch their trailer to a retirement dream and travel the road again, journeying through their home state and back to Chic...