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Breaking the Limit: One Woman's Motorcycle Journey Across North America
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Karen Larsen
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Hachette Book Group USA
Publication date
July 1, 2004
Pages
358
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780786868704
ISBN-10
0786868708
Dimensions
1.25 by 6.25 by 9.25 in.
Weight
1.35 lbs.
Original list price
$31.99
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
Recounts the author's experiences while riding a motorcycle from New Jersey to Alaska and back, a journey during which she tested the limits of her endurance and conscience, considered her identity as a family member and an American, and encountered a wide range of natural wonders and people. 40,000 first printing.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Breaking the Limit is one woman's account of riding her motorcycle from New Jersey to Alaska and back. Realizing that years of work and travel in other people's countries made her a stranger in her own, and with an invitation to meet her biological father for the first time, Karen Larsen set out on a fifteen-thousand-mile trip with nothing but her motorcycle and the barest of essentials.
Larsen's journey tests the limits of her own endurance, challenges her long-held beliefs and values, and asks what it means to belong to a family. Through the the fields of Iowa and the deserts of the Southwest, over the Rockies and across Alaska's Kenai Peninsula, Larsen confronts questions of femininity, family, independence, and personal identity.
Her journey speaks to the immense space and over-whelming beauty of North America, as well as to the diversity and vitality of the people she meets along the way. Breaking the Limit invites you to join her as she braces against the wind, trades security for freedom, sacrifices stability for motion, and opens herself up to the vast canopy of a continent.
Larsen's journey tests the limits of her own endurance, challenges her long-held beliefs and values, and asks what it means to belong to a family. Through the the fields of Iowa and the deserts of the Southwest, over the Rockies and across Alaska's Kenai Peninsula, Larsen confronts questions of femininity, family, independence, and personal identity.
Her journey speaks to the immense space and over-whelming beauty of North America, as well as to the diversity and vitality of the people she meets along the way. Breaking the Limit invites you to join her as she braces against the wind, trades security for freedom, sacrifices stability for motion, and opens herself up to the vast canopy of a continent.
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Hardcover
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from Hachette Book Group USA (July 1, 2004)
9780786868704 | details & prices | 358 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 1.25 in. | 1.35 lbs | List price $31.99
About: Recounts the author's experiences while riding a motorcycle from New Jersey to Alaska and back, a journey during which she tested the limits of her endurance and conscience, considered her identity as a family member and an American, and encountered a wide range of natural wonders and people.
About: Recounts the author's experiences while riding a motorcycle from New Jersey to Alaska and back, a journey during which she tested the limits of her endurance and conscience, considered her identity as a family member and an American, and encountered a wide range of natural wonders and people.
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