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Bauman, Martin -- Travel -- Canada.
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Bicycle touring -- Canada
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Hell of a ride : chasing home and survival on a bicycle voyage across Canada / by Martin Bauman.
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Bauman, Martin.
Pottersfield Press, c2024.
Call #:
796
.64
B347h
Subjects
Bauman, Martin -- Travel -- Canada.
Bauman, Martin -- Mental health.
Bicycle touring -- Canada
Cycling -- Canada -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781990770470 (trade paperback)
Alternate title:
Bicycle voyage across Canada
Description:
228 p. ; 23 cm.
Notes:
A pasionate speaker and mental health advocate, Martin Bauman has been a youth panelist for the Canada-wide Spotlight on Invisible Disabilities Partnership. He holds an MFA in writing from the University of Victoria and now lives, writes and rides his bicycle in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:
"Martin Bauman was twenty-three and restless when he embarked on a solo bicycle trek across Canada. It was a ride that came in the wake of his father's sudden depression, his cousin's suicide, and the stirring up of his own childhood of buried memories. He had billed the 7,000-kilometre journey as a mission to encourage people--men, especially--to talk about depression. It was ironic that he was so reluctant to talk about his own. In 'Hell of a Ride,' Bauman--named one of Canada's emergent authors by the RBC Taylor Prize in 2020--brings his sharp reporting instincts and lyrical prose to explore a timely question: how much of the past do we carry with us? And how much of our fate is ours to choose? A spiritual successor to the bicycle-bound escapades of Kate Harris's 'Lands of Lost Borders,' with an emotional candour reminiscent of Antonio Michael Downing's 'Saga Boy' and Greg Gilhooly's 'I Am Nobody,' Bauman's 'Hell of a Ride' takes its readers on a journey from the rain-slicked streets of Vancouver, British Columbia, to the hills of St. John's, Newfoundland, through encounters with couch-surfing swingers, pot-smoking Maritimers, runaway army veterans, prairie farmers, steely-eyed birdwatchers, and Kiwi empty-nesters. Along the way, Bauman interrogates the past through reflections on home, family secrets, and belonging: How to feel at home in a place one always itches to leave? And if one is always on the move, how to find a home at all? Heartfelt and uplifting, 'Hell of a Ride' is a coming-of-age tale of a son's search to connect with his father and also come to terms with his own past. It is a clarion call for deep community, an ode to forgiveness -- of oneself and others -- and a love letter to the call of adventure."--From publisher.
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Travel memoirs.
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