Across America by Motorcycle


Read by Barry Eads

(4.4 stars; 6 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


(3 stars)

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