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978-1-878086-05-1
1-878086-05-7
$11.95 paperback
6" x 9"
150 pages
maps, black-and-white photographs, appendixes
Down Home Press
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The Blue Ridge Parkway is a
road unlike any other. Perhaps the world's most beautiful highway,
designed only for pleasure, it wends for 470 miles through six mountain
ranges in the Southern Appalachians, offering spectacular views,
startling natural beauty, charming people, opportunities for adventure,
and constant surprises. Author Jerry Bledsoe was drawn to the parkway
from childhood, but as he approached age 50, he decided to get to know
it in a more intimate way--by bicycle. This book is the story of his
17-day mountain-bike trip from one end of the parkway to the other. Ride
with him. Experience his struggles, the constant ups and downs. See the
wonders of nature that he encountered. Get to know the fascinating
people he met. By the end, you will know the Blue Ridge Parkway as few
others ever have.
about the author
Jerry Bledsoe is the author of over a dozen books, including Just
Folks, From Whalebone to Hot House, North Carolina Curiosities, and
the bestselling true crime books, Bitter Blood and Blood Games.
He lives for part of the year in Carroll County, Virginia, just a few
miles off the Blue Ridge Parkway.
Other books on North
Carolina by Jerry Bledsoe:
From Whalebone to Hot House: A Journey Along North Carolina's Longest
Highway
Country Cured:
Reflections from the Heart
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