Speed Stories of Survival from Behind the Wheel |
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| Editor:
| Hardcastle, Nate
Willis, Clint |
| Contribution by:
| McMurtry, Larry
White, E. B.
Cahill, Tim |
| Series title: | Adrenaline Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-56025-391-4 |
| Publication Date: | May 2002 |
| Publisher: | Hachette Books
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| Imprint: | Da Capo Press, Incorporated |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $17.95 |
Book Description:
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Adrenaline offers all the thrills and power of speed with exhilarating writing about NASCAR, speed records, third-world road trips, driving in war zones, getaways, "pick-up” competitions (drag races and games of chicken), and all the other activities that offer adventure on wheels. Speed includes passages from Road Fever by erstwhile adventurer Tim Cahill; a selection from Charles Portis’s anarchic The Dog of the South; a description of driving across Africa from...
More DescriptionAdrenaline offers all the thrills and power of speed with exhilarating writing about NASCAR, speed records, third-world road trips, driving in war zones, getaways, "pick-up” competitions (drag races and games of chicken), and all the other activities that offer adventure on wheels. Speed includes passages from Road Fever by erstwhile adventurer Tim Cahill; a selection from Charles Portis’s anarchic The Dog of the South; a description of driving across Africa from Stuart Stephens’s Malaria Dreams; E. B. White’s elegiac essay on the Model T; a piece from Roads by Larry McMurtry; a selection from The Wildest Ride: A History of NASCAR; and more. 16 black-and-white photos heighten these pulse-pounding stories.