70 used & new from £0.01
See All Buying Options
Have one to sell? Sell yours here
 
 
Travels in a Strange State: Cycling Across the U.S.A.
 
 
Share your own customer images
Search inside another edition of this book

Travels in a Strange State: Cycling Across the U.S.A. (Paperback)

by Josie Dew (Author) "Two days before I was to leave for America, my father handed me an article which he had thoughtfully cut out of the London Evening..." (more)
3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

Available from these sellers.


2 new from £2.50 68 used from £0.01
Other Editions: RRP: Our Price: Other Offers:
Hardcover 17 used & new from £0.01
Paperback (New edition) £9.99 £9.99 16 used & new from £0.01

Customers Viewing This Page May Be Interested in These Sponsored Links

  (What is this?)
   Cycle Travels Catalogue opens new browser window
www.cycle-europe.info  -  Find Great Tours in Austria&Germany Just order your Free Copy today! 
   Cycling Across The Usa opens new browser window
Ask.com  -  Find the Best Results for Cycling Across The Usa. 
   Bike Dreams opens new browser window
www.bike-dreams.com  -  Cycling expeditions in the Sahara desert, South America and Italy 
  
 

Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought

The Wind in My Wheels: Travel Tales from the Saddle

The Wind in My Wheels: Travel Tales from the Saddle

by Josie Dew
3.7 out of 5 stars (7)  £8.49
Slow Coast Home: 5,000 Miles Around the Shores of England and Wales

Slow Coast Home: 5,000 Miles Around the Shores of England and Wales

by Josie Dew
2.0 out of 5 stars (8)  £7.67
The Sun in My Eyes: Two-Wheeling East

The Sun in My Eyes: Two-Wheeling East

by Josie Dew
4.5 out of 5 stars (2)  £6.49
A Ride in the Neon Sun

A Ride in the Neon Sun

by Josie Dew
3.7 out of 5 stars (18)  £6.98
Long Cloud Ride

Long Cloud Ride

by Josie Dew
3.2 out of 5 stars (5)  £6.16
› Explore similar items

Product details

  • Paperback: 276 pages
  • Publisher: Time Warner Paperbacks; New edition edition (1 Jun 1995)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0751505757
  • ISBN-13: 978-0751505757
  • Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 9.9 x 2.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 703,451 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

    •  Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?

Product Description

Product Description

Following "The Wind in My Wheels", Josie Dew recounts more of her travels by bicycle. This time she describes a journey across America and Hawaii, on which she met a variety of unusual characters and experienced incidents which aroused a wide range of emotions. During her eight months on the road she saw race riots in Los Angeles, suffered intense heat in Death Valley, and witnessed sexual tantric seminars in Hawaii. From Utah to the Great Lakes, via improbable places such as Zzyzx and Squaw Tit, she offers a personal memoir of the United States as seen from the seat of a bicycle.
Inside This Book (Learn More)
Browse and search another edition of this book.
First Sentence
Two days before I was to leave for America, my father handed me an article which he had thoughtfully cut out of the London Evening Standard: Murder Toll in U.S. Hits 24,000 Read the first page
Explore More
Concordance
Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Back Cover
Search inside this book:

Suggested Tags from Similar Products

 (What's this?)
Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product)
 
(13)
(10)
(8)
(3)
(4)
(2)
(2)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)

Your tags: Add your first tag
 
See most popular tags

What Do Customers Ultimately Buy After Viewing This Item?

Travels in a Strange State: Cycling Across the U.S.A.
55% buy the item featured on this page:
Travels in a Strange State: Cycling Across the U.S.A. 3.3 out of 5 stars (3)
The Wind in My Wheels: Travel Tales from the Saddle
19% buy
The Wind in My Wheels: Travel Tales from the Saddle 3.7 out of 5 stars (7)
£8.49
Slow Coast Home: 5,000 Miles Around the Shores of England and Wales
9% buy
Slow Coast Home: 5,000 Miles Around the Shores of England and Wales 2.0 out of 5 stars (8)
£7.67
Long Cloud Ride
9% buy
Long Cloud Ride 3.2 out of 5 stars (5)
£6.16
Explore similar items
 

Customer Reviews

3 Reviews
5 star:    (0)
4 star:
 (2)
3 star:    (0)
2 star:
 (1)
1 star:    (0)
 
 
 
 
 
Average Customer Review
3.3 out of 5 stars (3 customer reviews)
 
 
 
 
Share your thoughts with other customers:
Most Helpful Customer Reviews

 
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Repetitive and a bit dull., 16 April 2006
By blergle "andys666" (manchester, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Travels in a Strange State (Paperback)
Desipte being billed as "cycling across the usa" over half the book covers Hawaii. Of the rest, it seems as though it is mostly complaints about the landscape being desert or cornfields.

Added to this are the repetitive accounts of guns, murders, rapes and shootings making this a rather dull book.
Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)



 
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars She's still travelling, but it takes more courage., 8 Aug 1999
By A Customer
Following on from the delightful, "Wind in my Wheels" JD is travelling in the USA. Although her effervescent character still shines through, the bad experiences in Bulgaria described in the earlier book have clearly dented her insouciance and confidence that things will be okay. The book is therefore much darker, and more anxiety is described than pleasure. Its still a great read, and those who enjoyed the first book will want to know how she gets on. You just end up more concerned about her.
Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)



 
1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Still pedaling, 23 April 2003
By A Customer
Josie Dew's welcome second book of her exploits touring by bicycle. Whilst her first was centred on Europe this cover the USA. Like most good travel writing, the account is a very personal perspective on what she sees, it's not a tourist board brochure. Yes, a fair proportion of the book is spent on the Hawaiian Isles, but most of the book is in mainland US.

She writes with great humour, telling life as it seems from the saddle and the roadside, both good and bad.

If not quite as fresh or humourous as 'The Wind in My Wheels' this is still a great read.

Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)


Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
 
 
 
Only search this product's reviews


Customer Discussions

This product's forum
Discussion Replies Latest Post
No discussions yet

Ask questions, Share opinions, Gain insight
Start a new discussion
Topic:
First post:
Prompts for sign-in
 

   

Listmania!

Create a Listmania! list

Look for similar items by category

Look for similar items by subject












i.e., each product must be in subject 1 AND subject 2 AND ...

Feedback

Ad

Your Recent History

 (What's this?)

After viewing product detail pages or search results, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.