Jeremy Kroeker

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Motorcycle Messengers 2 - Tales From the Road by Writers Who Ride (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

Motorcycle Messengers 2 is another collection of stories from some of the leading writers in the motorcycle travel genre ... plus a few people you've never heard of. Consider it a sample pack of authors. Rekindle memories of your own trips, find inspiration for new rides, or learn a few lessons from those who have done things the hard way. Above all, enjoy the journey.

- Billy Ward spends a night out beside a broken motorcycle, considering defence strategies against hungry lions and lascivious hippos in Africa.
- Carla King wrestles with conflicting emotions after crashing her motorcycle in India.
- Sam Manicom battles bulldust and heat exhaustion in the outback of Australia.
- Lois Pryce bonds with a one-legged retired army General while singing "The Final Countdown" in Iran.
- Ed March gets a drunken idea for a stupid, pointless adventure and, in spite of sobering up later, still carries on with it in Mongolia.
- Allan Karl pushes his luck by asking for change when he is forced to bribe a police officer in Guatemala.
- Paddy Tyson surrenders to fate, gets pummelled by a barber, and finds himself caught up in a high-speed chase in Nepal.
- Jeremy Kroeker discovers that his days of crashing motorcycles are not yet behind him in Colombia.
- Ted Simon encounters a healer, of sorts, who helps restore in him a sense of wonder for the journey in Thailand.
- Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent sidesteps "death by hubris" on her solo ride through the jungles of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.
- Chris Scott attempts to become the first man astride a Honda SS50 to break the coveted "Mach 0.0525" barrier in England.

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Autor

Jeremy Kroeker is a freelance writer, a speaker, and the award-winning author of "Motorcycle Therapy A Canadian Adventure in Central America."

With his motorcycle, Kroeker has traveled to over 30 countries while managing to do at least one outrageously stupid thing in every one. He has evaded police in Egypt, tasted teargas in Israel, scrambled through minefields in Bosnia and Lebanon, and wrangled a venomous snake in Austria. One time he got a sliver in El Salvador.

Kroeker was born in Steinbach, Manitoba in 1973, but he grew up in Saskatchewan. He spent most of his boyhood summers on a little dirt bike chasing gophers. As a young adult, he took a job as a long haul truck driver to fund a year of travel in Europe. There he attended a mountaineering school in Austria and volunteered at a Croatian refugee centre near the end of the Balkan War.

Returning to Canada, Kroeker worked at a wilderness camp in Alberta where he fell in love with ice climbing (an enterprise that has been described as "hours of suffering interspersed with moments of terror"). To earn entire work-free winters to climb, Kroeker laboured during the summers as a member of an initial attack wildfire rappel crew in northern Alberta.

Some time later, as a knee-jerk response to a failed relationship, he bought a used motorcycle and rode from the Canadian Rockies to the jungles of Panama. That trip provides the foundation for his book, "Motorcycle Therapy." More recently, Kroeker completed another motorcycle trip, this one to the Middle East and North Africa. His book about that trip is slated for release in the Fall of 2013 by Rocky Mountain Books.

Since 1999, Kroeker has made his home in Canmore, Alberta, although he still travels extensively. He presents slideshows of his adventures in classrooms throughout southern Alberta and at motorcycle rallies across Western Canada. His writing has appeared in newspapers such as the Toronto Star, Winnipeg Free Press, Calgary Herald, and in American magazines such as Alpinist, and Outrider Journal.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jeremy Kroeker
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781005144210
• Artikelnr.: 70237393