Across America by Motorcycle


Read by Barry Eads

(4.5 stars; 7 reviews)

The year is 1919 and Charles Kenilworth ("C.K.") Shepherd, a former British Royal Air Force Captain and World War I veteran, has decided to travel to the United States to see the country from the back of a brand new Henderson 4-cylinder motorcycle. In this accounting of his adventures across the country, he has "endeavored to portray America and Americans exactly as I found them and as they appealed to me" in this "narrative of quite an ordinary, unaspiring, British motorcyclist". - Summary by Barry Eads
(7 hr 8 min)

Chapters

Preface and Prologue 11:06 Read by Barry Eads
Chapter 1 - Traffic in New York 12:31 Read by Barry Eads
Chapter 2 - New York to Philadelphia 16:41 Read by Barry Eads
Chapter 3 - Philadelphia to Washington 16:01 Read by Barry Eads
Chapter 4 - Exceeding the Speed Limit 17:47 Read by Barry Eads
Chapter 5 - Across the Alleghanies 14:56 Read by Barry Eads
Chapter 6 - The Dixie Highway 15:09 Read by Barry Eads
Chapter 7 - Cincinnati and Onwards 16:24 Read by Barry Eads
Chapter 8 - Indiana and Illinois 21:35 Read by Barry Eads
Chapter 9 - Stormy Weather in Missouri 10:39 Read by Barry Eads
Chapter 10 - Results of a Breakdown 7:03 Read by Barry Eads
Chapter 11 - The Santa Fé Trail 21:40 Read by Barry Eads
Chapter 12 - The Royal Gorge of Arkansas 21:31 Read by Barry Eads
Chapter 13 - In Southern Colorado 24:01 Read by Barry Eads
Chapter 14 - New Mexico 25:48 Read by Barry Eads
Chapter 15 - Santa Fé 11:02 Read by Barry Eads
Chapter 16 - The Rio Grande Valley 14:26 Read by Barry Eads
Chapter 17 - The Petrified Forest of Arizona 28:44 Read by Barry Eads
Chapter 18 - The Grand Canyon 23:59 Read by Barry Eads
Chapter 19 - The Mohave Desert 32:14 Read by Barry Eads
Chapter 20 - I Reach the Pacific Coast 22:52 Read by Barry Eads
Chapter 21 - Los Angeles to San Francisco 30:09 Read by Barry Eads
Epilogue 11:45 Read by Barry Eads

Reviews


(5 stars)

As an English man living in the USA in a house and hamlet created at this time I get a new perspective of life here at that time

what a trip


(5 stars)

It's hard to believe that a person would set out on such a trip with the roads as bad as they were. tires that were considerably thinner and were very prone to blowing out. We all feel pretty vulnerable when we go out across desert landscape now so I just can't imagine how daunting that would be on that kind of motorcycle with that decade.


(3 stars)

I got to chapter 14. After that it won't work.