Twenty-Nine Hills - Softcover

Marty Basch

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ISBN 10: 0964651033 ISBN 13: 9780964651036

Publisher: Top of the World Communications, 2005

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Can a mountain biking couple - one a writer and the other a chef - survive the American West and each other along the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route? The answer is in the pages of Twenty-nine Hills., the new book by award-winning writer and adventurer Marty Basch. Basch relates what it’s like to cycle the length of America's longest mountain bike route with his companion, Jan Duprey. Duprey, a chef, provides tasty recipes like Not-Another-Pass-Again-Pasta and Flat Tire Frijoles. There are 13 recipes in all.

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About the Author

Marty Basch is a writer, lecturer and adventurer who has written widely on the outdoors, sports, travel and food. He has won awards from the Associated Press for his radio reporting and twice won the highly-regarded Harold Hirsch Award from the North American Snowsports Journalists Association for his ski writing. His book Winter Trails Vermont and New Hampshire was noted as a National Outdoor Book Award honorable mention winner. In 2004, an article he wrote in The Boston Globe was awarded a prestigious gold Lowell Thomas Award from the Society of American Travel Writers for an article in The Boston Globe. Basch is a Boston Globe correspondent and syndicated columnist. Basch, a member of the Explorer’s Club, is the author of six books: Against the Wind (Maine to Alaska by bike), Above the Circle (Arctic Scandinavia on a bicycle), The White Mountain Ride Guide (road and mountain bike rides in New Hampshire’s White Mountains), Winter Trails Vermont and New Hampshire (XC and snowshoe tour guide), Winter Trails Maine (snowshoe and cross-country ski guide) and the new Twenty-nine Hills (Canada to Mexico along the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route).

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