Life is a Highway: A Century of Great Automotive Writing

Description

Life Is a Highway, a collection of the best automotive writing to date, captures the joys of the automobile, the historical circumstances of its creation, and the major events, people, and cars involved. This book includes the most significant writings and musings about the automobile ever recorded, featuring works from some of the most well known authors and publications of the automobile's first 100 plus years.

DARWIN HOLMSTROM has written, co-written, or contributed to over thirty books on subjects ranging from motorcycles and muscle cars to Gibson Les Paul guitars, including Indian Motorcycles, GTO: Fifty Years, Let's Ride: Sonny Barger's Guide to Motorcyclying,Top Muscle: The Rarest Cars from America's Fastest Decade, BMW Motorcycles, The Harley-Davidson Motor Co. Archive Collection, and The Complete Idiot's Guide to Motorcycles. Darwin is the senior editor for Motorbooks. Prior to that he served as Midwestern editor for Motorcyclist magazine.

"Life is a Highway gives snapshots of this automotive evolution through a collection of articles and book excerpts from the past hundred years. The topics are as varied as the industry of car production, the thrills and perils of racing, the ups and downs of ownership, and that most sacred of topics, the road trip. Editors Darwin Holmstrom and Melinda Keefe have gathered a terrific variety of sources. Add this book to your holiday wish list and spend a few hours jumping around through time." - "Grassroots Motorsports ""Life is a Highway is a compilation of great automotive writing." - "Kansas City Star" "You don't have to love cars, or to know much about them, to want to own this book. Great automotive writing is as much about journeys, destinations, personalities and atmosphere as it is about machines, and "Life Is a Highway" delivers abundantly on all of the above. - New York Times