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ISBN: 0786868708

ISBN13: 9780786868704

Breaking the Limit: One Woman's Motorcycle Journey Through North America

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Item: Breaking the Limit: One Woman&#39;s Motorcycle Journey Through North America
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By Karen Larsen

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Book Overview

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.

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0786868708

ISBN13:9780786868704

Release Date:July 2004

Publisher:Grand Central Publishing

Length:358 Pages

Weight:1.37 lbs.

Dimensions:1.2" x 6.3" x 9.2"

Age Range:18 to 17 years

Grade Range:Postsecondary to Grade 12

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Rated 5 stars
Amazing endurance

By Thriftbooks.com User, July 1, 2007

What an incredible read by an amazing woman. The book is intelligently written, including bits of history in her descriptions of areas traveled and her encounters with strangers. I also ride a "SPORTY" and men are amazed that I have ridden over 10,000 miles on it, much less a "short distance" trip of 450 miles in one day. I am in complete awe that this women did it on a model that was not rubber mounted as is mine. Have shared...

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Rated 5 stars
A Story for Everyone

By Thriftbooks.com User, May 8, 2005

This book is about life on and off a motorcycle - a book for everyone. I just purchased by tenth copy to give to a friend. If you ride a bike you'll love it; if you dont't you'll still love it! I started the book about nine o'clock one evening and just kept on reading until I finished the story. Karen Larsen uses a ride from New Jersey to Alaska and back to review her life and project her future; you can join her and live...

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Rated 5 stars
Road Trip - It Doesn't Matter Where To.

By Thriftbooks.com User, October 1, 2004

There is a mode you sometimes get into when a road trip is all but necessary. I haven't done one on two wheels in quite some years, since before she was born, my pickup with a matress in back is much more my style now. But every year or two I get the urge to go somewhere a few thousand miles away. Given three months between jobs, what better way could Karen Larsen have spent the time than to get on a bike and go 15,000 miles...

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Rated 5 stars
Excellent

By Thriftbooks.com User, September 10, 2004

I haven't devoured a book this quick in years. I found Karen's journey to be fascinating both in character and description. I've been a biker for a few years and envied her trip and courage. The book wasn't about finding one's self or searching for the ultimate answer to life but a story of what it feels like to journey on a motorcycle, the inherit dangers and her descriptions of what we feel when we are on our bikes. It was...

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Pack Your T-Bag and Let's Ride!

By Thriftbooks.com User, July 27, 2004

A must read for every motorcycle rider, woman and man. After hearing about this book in August '03, I couldn't wait for the release. I picked up this book on a Friday and read it straight through the weekend. Karen Larsen's journey touched my heart and soul. While she explores the country side, she learns about her strengths as a solo rider, as a woman, and as a traveler. The aromas from the flowers and grasses waft...

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