Night Driving-- Invention Of The Wheel & Other BluesDorworth
hc/256pp ISBN 9781933009025
Stock No. MNU254This collection of essays, a memoir, really, written by legendary speed-skier/climber Dick Dorworth, includes the lengthy and legendary Night Driving, first published in Mountain Gazette in 1975. More than just the travelogues of a world-class skier, legendary climber, and consummate lover of mountains crisscrossing Europe and the Americas; these stories look into the mirror around the early history and development of U.S. ski racing and rock climbing in the wake of W.W. II and through the destructiveness of Vietnam. Rather than palliative tales of youthful antics, escapism and bravado, in that looking glass Dorworth finds the very soul of America and our society. And he doesn't always like what he sees. Night Driving bears witness that out of a mind-bending era of drugs, drink, and crazy responses to a crazed world, it's possible to find not only redemption but a deeply creative wisdom. Yet unlike many, then and now, who turn on, tune in and drop out, Dorworth's reaction is to embrace "the staggering chore... using whatever tools and talents we have to breath life into the machine; to add humanity to the robot."
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