Sons of Thunder
eBook - ePub

Sons of Thunder

Writing from the Fast Lane

  1. 273 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Sons of Thunder

Writing from the Fast Lane

About this book

An anthology of the best motorcycle literature from top authors including Hunter S. Thompson, Thomas McGuane, Robert Pirsig, Roald Dahl, Alberto Granado, and T. E. Lawrence Sons of Thunder is a high-octane anthology that brings together the best in motorcycle writing.This unique collection includes seminal pieces from Hunter S. Thompson and Robert Pirsig. Melissa Holbrook Pierson and Thomas McGuane offer probing reflections on the relationship between rider and machine. Roald Dahl waxes poetic on the second-hand Ariel 500cc he bought as a sixteen-year-old. There are classic dispatches from the road including T. E. Lawrence's travels on his Brough Superior, Alberto Granado's storied rides with Che Guevara, and Theresa Wallach's overland journey with Florence Blenkiron from London to Cape Town. This anthology also offers hidden gems, such as Mike Carter's midlife meditation "Uneasy Rider" and Jim Perrin's "Travels with a Harley." Facing more than just the elements of the road, these riders simultaneously take physical and emotional journeys, surrendering to the mental release a bike brings. Danger lurks around every bend, but above all is the rider's desire for speed, the constant craving to go faster and further than one has ever gone before.
At times literary and lyrical, at others tactile and thrilling, Sons of Thunder takes to the road with an all-star roster of writers who delve into the pleasures and perils of motorcycles and celebrate the emotional bond between rider and machine.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Notice
  4. Contents
  5. Dedication
  6. Epigraph
  7. Introduction by Neil Bradford
  8. The Perfect Vehicle
  9. The Road
  10. Letter to Charlotte Shaw
  11. Letter to George Brough
  12. My Year
  13. A Motorbike
  14. Long Lane with Turnings
  15. One Man Caravan
  16. The Rugged Road
  17. Travelling with Che Guevara: The Making of a Revolutionary
  18. Chasing Che
  19. Che and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
  20. Solo by Motor-Bicycle from Rawalpindi to Lancashire
  21. Jupiterā€™s Travels
  22. Bullet Up the Grand Trunk Road
  23. Running with the Moon
  24. Lois on the Loose
  25. Uneasy Rider
  26. Song of the Sausage Creature
  27. The Unsettled Motorcyclistā€™s Vision of His Death
  28. Me and My Bike and Why
  29. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
  30. Travels with a Harley
  31. The Case for Working with Your Hands or Why Office Work is Bad for Us and Fixing Things is Good
  32. These are the Days that Must Happen to You
  33. Stealing Speed
  34. What if I Hadnā€™t Tried It
  35. Myth of the Motorcycle Hog
  36. Acknowledgements
  37. Permissions
  38. About the Author
  39. Copyright