The Long Landscape: A Filmmaker Cycles the American West

A filmmaker cycling across the United States reflects upon his connection to other passionate cyclists from 20th-century surrealism, adventuresome high-wheelers, science fiction, and philosophy in this charming and artful travel book. For readers of Rebecca Lowe (The Slow Road to Tehran), Robert Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance), and Sara Dykman (Bicycling with Butterflies). The challenge: to cycle from Disney's Epcot Center toward San Francisco - a 4350 mile journey - on the cusp of summer.In search of the mythological American West seamlessly represented in movies and literature, Delpeut and his beloved cycling companion instead discover a landscape rarely felt in its actual punishing weather and expanse.On their way through the South, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, the couple encounter a blistering and varied cast of characters.A philosophy emerges as they bicycle their way across America that unites the challenge, wonderment, discovery, and naiveté that brought th