Author: Lynne Ashdown
Publisher: Wheatmark, Inc.
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
When Lynne Ashdown, her new lover, and more than fifty Italian male cyclists departed Italy in June of 1990, no one had yet ventured into the long-closed reaches of Eastern Europe since the falling of the Iron Curtain more than forty years before. They would be cycling almost a thousand miles from Verona, across Northern Italy, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland to Warsaw, in just ten days. One American Woman Fifty Italian Men tells not only of a sweeping journey of adventure, romantic disaster, and cultural collision, but also of a revelation of Ashdown's identity, forged by her will in the constant pain of trying to keep up with the men who were stronger. This trip back in time shows the stark contrasts between the world she knew as an American and the world she saw in impoverished Eastern Europe. This true story, rich with images of the countries they cycled through, describes the warmth and the cycling lives of the Italians, as well as the lives of people who lived under communism for so long and the values that survive all governments. In One American Woman Fifty Italian Men, Ashdown conveys the aloneness of cycling over vast distances even in a spread-out pack, the growing pain and fatigue of each pedal-stroke, and the caring of the men for her and for each other. This journey draws us into a universal drama not just of cyclists, but also of hearts and possibilities.
One American Woman Fifty Italian Men
Author: Lynne Ashdown
Publisher: Wheatmark, Inc.
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
When Lynne Ashdown, her new lover, and more than fifty Italian male cyclists departed Italy in June of 1990, no one had yet ventured into the long-closed reaches of Eastern Europe since the falling of the Iron Curtain more than forty years before. They would be cycling almost a thousand miles from Verona, across Northern Italy, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland to Warsaw, in just ten days. One American Woman Fifty Italian Men tells not only of a sweeping journey of adventure, romantic disaster, and cultural collision, but also of a revelation of Ashdown's identity, forged by her will in the constant pain of trying to keep up with the men who were stronger. This trip back in time shows the stark contrasts between the world she knew as an American and the world she saw in impoverished Eastern Europe. This true story, rich with images of the countries they cycled through, describes the warmth and the cycling lives of the Italians, as well as the lives of people who lived under communism for so long and the values that survive all governments. In One American Woman Fifty Italian Men, Ashdown conveys the aloneness of cycling over vast distances even in a spread-out pack, the growing pain and fatigue of each pedal-stroke, and the caring of the men for her and for each other. This journey draws us into a universal drama not just of cyclists, but also of hearts and possibilities.
Publisher: Wheatmark, Inc.
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
When Lynne Ashdown, her new lover, and more than fifty Italian male cyclists departed Italy in June of 1990, no one had yet ventured into the long-closed reaches of Eastern Europe since the falling of the Iron Curtain more than forty years before. They would be cycling almost a thousand miles from Verona, across Northern Italy, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland to Warsaw, in just ten days. One American Woman Fifty Italian Men tells not only of a sweeping journey of adventure, romantic disaster, and cultural collision, but also of a revelation of Ashdown's identity, forged by her will in the constant pain of trying to keep up with the men who were stronger. This trip back in time shows the stark contrasts between the world she knew as an American and the world she saw in impoverished Eastern Europe. This true story, rich with images of the countries they cycled through, describes the warmth and the cycling lives of the Italians, as well as the lives of people who lived under communism for so long and the values that survive all governments. In One American Woman Fifty Italian Men, Ashdown conveys the aloneness of cycling over vast distances even in a spread-out pack, the growing pain and fatigue of each pedal-stroke, and the caring of the men for her and for each other. This journey draws us into a universal drama not just of cyclists, but also of hearts and possibilities.
Sons of Italy
Author: Antonio Mangano
Publisher:
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Category : Italian Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
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Category : Italian Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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The Common-good of Civic and Social Rochester
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Category : Rochester (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
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Category : Rochester (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
Book Description
Report on Condition of Woman and Child-wage Earners in the United States: Men's ready-made clothing
Author: United States. Bureau of Labor
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Category : Child labor
Languages : en
Pages : 890
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Category : Child labor
Languages : en
Pages : 890
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Presbyterian Magazine
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 690
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 690
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The Assembly Herald
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Category : Presbyterian Church
Languages : en
Pages : 1754
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Category : Presbyterian Church
Languages : en
Pages : 1754
Book Description
The Dangerously Truthful Diary of a Sicilian Housewife
Author: Veronica Di Grigoli
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781514802250
Category : Man-woman relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
When career-girl Veronica flies to Sicily for a friend's wedding, she accidentally falls in love with one of the groom's three-hundred cousins. A year later she has given up her job, house and friends, and is planning her own wedding with her Latin Lover in the shimmering heat of Sicily.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781514802250
Category : Man-woman relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
When career-girl Veronica flies to Sicily for a friend's wedding, she accidentally falls in love with one of the groom's three-hundred cousins. A year later she has given up her job, house and friends, and is planning her own wedding with her Latin Lover in the shimmering heat of Sicily.
The Drama
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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The Drama Magazine ...
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The Drama Magazine
Author: Charles Hubbard Sergei
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 860
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 860
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