Life is a Highway: A Century of Great Automotive Writing - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0760338582 ISBN 13: 9780760338582

Publisher: Motorbooks, 2010

Synopsis

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. Contributors include Stephen King, Jack Kerouac, Peter Egan, Jeremy Clarkson, Jay Leno, P. J. O'Rourke, Rowan Atkinson, and L. J. K. Setright.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

In the late 1800s, a new invention--the "motor carriage"--turned the world upside down. For the first time since humans lost their tail and came down from the treetops, people no longer had to live their lives within walking or buggy distance of their homes; the human animal could now roam the planet at will. As with anything that changes the way in which we live, the automobile has provided fodder for countless magazines, newspapers, and books for more than a century. Life Is a Highway celebrates our passion for the automobile through the words of top-notch writers, including:
* Rowan Atkinson
* P. J. O'Rourke
* L. J. K. Setright
* Stephen King
* Jeremy Clarkson
* Jay Leno
* Jack Kerouac
* Peter Egan
* Robert Daley
* Brock Yates

About the Author:

Darwin Holmstrom, senior acquisitions editor for MBI Publishing, has written or co-written over a dozen books on cars and motorcycles, including BMW Motorcycles, GTO: Pontiac’s Great One, The Harley-Davidson Motor Co. Archive Collection, Camaro: Forty Years, Muscle: America’s Legendary Performance Cars, and The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Motorcycles. Melinda Keefe is an MBI Publishing editor who has contributed to various Motorbooks titles, covering subjects from hot rodding to muscle cars to motorsports. Her efforts with Motorbooks have inspired an interest in cars and car people that was unexpected but has been surprisingly satisfying. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

About this edition

• Publisher: Motorbooks
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0760338582
• ISBN 13: 9780760338582
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Holmstrom Darwin, Keefe Melinda