Night Driving: Invention of the Wheel and Other Blues

by Dick Dorworth Hardcover: 256 pages Publisher: First Ascent Press; 1st edition (October 11, 2007) Night Driving: Invention of the Wheel and Other Blues is a splendid record of one man’s personal journey through the backroads and mountain ranges of the world; woven into the history of a wildly experimental, consciousness-expanding era. Contents Foreward by Jack Turner Preface A Place to Start Instinct & the Eventual Tragedy Of Liberals, Conservatives, Madness & Food A Vegetarian Memoir Coyote Song Europe: Fourth Time Around Acknowledgements About the Author Dick Dorworth has skied and climbed in Europe, Asia, Alaska and South America; but he’s spent most of his life in the mountains of the West. He ski raced extensively from 1950 through 1965 and set the world record for speed on skis in Portillo, Chile in 1963. Dick taught and coached skiing for years,served as coach of the U.S. Ski Men’s Team, and later Directorof the Aspen Mountain Ski School. Dorworth’s writing has appeare