Jessica Cherry and Frank Soos have assembled a wide range of Alaska cycling voices, from the Gold Rush prospecting cyclists of the early 1900s to the ultra-endurance cyclists and bike packers of today.
Jessica Cherry and Frank Soos have assembled a wide range of Alaska cycling voices, from the Gold Rush prospecting cyclists of the early 1900s to the ultra-endurance cyclists and bike packers of today.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Jessica Cherry is a geoscientist, writer, aerial photographer, and commercial airplane pilot living in Anchorage, Alaska. She writes a literary column for the alternative weekly Anchorage Press. Frank Soos (1950–2021) is the author of Unpleasantries: Considerations of Difficult Questions, Bamboo Fly Rod Suite, and Early Yet and coauthor of Double Moon: Constructions and Conversations. He was a professor emeritus of English at the University of Alaska–Fairbanks.
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List of Illustrations Preface Jessica Cherry Introduction Frank Soos Part 1. Bicycling in Alaska, 1898–1908 Introduction Terrence Cole From Dawson to Nome on a Bicycle Edward R. Jesson A Broken Chain and a Busted Pedal: Max Hirschberg’s 1900 Bicycle Ride to Nome Max Hirschberg Cycling the Arctic: Levie’s Bicycle Ride from Point Barrow to Nome H. B. Levie Part 2. New Wheels, 1980s–2000 Introduction Jessica Cherry and Frank Soos Iditabike, 1987 Charlie Kelly Iditasport Extreme: 350 Miles Rocky Reifenstuhl Iditasport, 1991 Gail Koepf Hellbikes on Ice Roman Dial Biking the Haul Road Dan Buettner Pribilofs by Bike, 1994 Bill Sherwonit Rough-Terrain Unicycling, 1997 Michael Finkel Part 3. Wheels Now, 2001–2021 Introduction Jessica Cherry The Wind Grooms Our Trails Daniel Smith Skagway to Nome Jeff Oatley The Government Sign Corinna Cook Last Ride of the Season David A. James A Winter Bike Commute Martha Amore The Bike Thief Don Rearden The Killer Hill Andromeda Romano-Lax Cryo-Cave! An Ode to Indoor Training in Alaska Eric Flanders The Iditarod Trail and Me Clinton Hodges III That One Magnetek Time I Jumped Over Five Cars M. C. MoHagani Magnetek When There’s No One Left to Fight Rachael Kvapil The Books I Carried Alys Culhane Going Long, Going Solo Corrine Leistikow Physical Education Jessica Cherry There Is No Tomorrow Bjørn Olson A Positively Memorable Mountain Bike Ride(ish) Eric Troyer Back in Alaska to Share the Story of the Roads Lael Wilcox Nulato Hills: Biking Musk Ox Trails in Western Alaska Luc Mehl Growing Old with My Bicycle Kathleen McCoy The Magic Bus on Stampede Trail Tom Moran Tell ’Em about It: An Alaska Cyclist at Large Earl Peterson Acknowledgments Source Acknowledgments Contributors
List of Illustrations Preface Jessica Cherry Introduction Frank Soos Part 1. Bicycling in Alaska, 1898–1908 Introduction Terrence Cole From Dawson to Nome on a Bicycle Edward R. Jesson A Broken Chain and a Busted Pedal: Max Hirschberg’s 1900 Bicycle Ride to Nome Max Hirschberg Cycling the Arctic: Levie’s Bicycle Ride from Point Barrow to Nome H. B. Levie Part 2. New Wheels, 1980s–2000 Introduction Jessica Cherry and Frank Soos Iditabike, 1987 Charlie Kelly Iditasport Extreme: 350 Miles Rocky Reifenstuhl Iditasport, 1991 Gail Koepf Hellbikes on Ice Roman Dial Biking the Haul Road Dan Buettner Pribilofs by Bike, 1994 Bill Sherwonit Rough-Terrain Unicycling, 1997 Michael Finkel Part 3. Wheels Now, 2001–2021 Introduction Jessica Cherry The Wind Grooms Our Trails Daniel Smith Skagway to Nome Jeff Oatley The Government Sign Corinna Cook Last Ride of the Season David A. James A Winter Bike Commute Martha Amore The Bike Thief Don Rearden The Killer Hill Andromeda Romano-Lax Cryo-Cave! An Ode to Indoor Training in Alaska Eric Flanders The Iditarod Trail and Me Clinton Hodges III That One Magnetek Time I Jumped Over Five Cars M. C. MoHagani Magnetek When There’s No One Left to Fight Rachael Kvapil The Books I Carried Alys Culhane Going Long, Going Solo Corrine Leistikow Physical Education Jessica Cherry There Is No Tomorrow Bjørn Olson A Positively Memorable Mountain Bike Ride(ish) Eric Troyer Back in Alaska to Share the Story of the Roads Lael Wilcox Nulato Hills: Biking Musk Ox Trails in Western Alaska Luc Mehl Growing Old with My Bicycle Kathleen McCoy The Magic Bus on Stampede Trail Tom Moran Tell ’Em about It: An Alaska Cyclist at Large Earl Peterson Acknowledgments Source Acknowledgments Contributors
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