A broken heart and a moment of drunken bravado inspired middle-aged, typically cautious journalist Mike Carter to embark on a six-month-long motorcycle trip around Europe. After completing a brief residential motorcycle course and hastily remortgaging his apartment, Mike set off alone, resolving to go wherever the road took him. By the end of his journey, Mike had traveled nearly 20,000 miles and had roamed from the Arctic Circle in the north of Europe to the Mediterranean coast in the south, and from the Portuguese Atlantic coast in the west to the Iraqi border of Turkey in the east. This humorous and insightful account follows Mike through his adventures into nations and towns of every variety, as well as into his own mind as he finds his post-divorce scars starting to heal and attempts to discover his purpose in life. Self-deprecating, poetic, and utterly engaging, Mike’s is a heroic and inspiring journey for anyone who ever wanted to leave the nine-to-five in the dust.

Uneasy Rider: Travels Through a Mid-Life Crisis

Travel

Carter, Mike

Europe

Ebury Press

A broken heart and a moment of drunken bravado inspired middle-aged, typically cautious journalist Mike Carter to embark on a six-month-long motorcycle trip around Europe. After completing a brief residential motorcycle course and hastily remortgaging his apartment, Mike set off alone, resolving to go wherever the road took him. By the end of his journey, Mike had traveled nearly 20,000 miles and had roamed from the Arctic Circle in the north of Europe to the Mediterranean coast in the south, and from the Portuguese Atlantic coast in the west to the Iraqi border of Turkey in the east. This humorous and insightful account follows Mike through his adventures into nations and towns of every variety, as well as into his own mind as he finds his post-divorce scars starting to heal and attempts to discover his purpose in life. Self-deprecating, poetic, and utterly engaging, Mike’s is a heroic and inspiring journey for anyone who ever wanted to leave the nine-to-five in the dust.

Mike Carter's journey around the edge of Britain by bike. What would happen if you were cycling to the office and just kept on pedalling? Mike Carter needed a change. Fed up with a Britain rife with crime and sliding into economic downturn, one day he decided to cycle straight past the office to find out for himself what was going on. He would follow the Thames to the sea and then ride around the entire coastline, a journey of 5,000 miles, the equivalent of London to Calcutta. If he completed it, he would end up exactly where he started. Physically, at least. Camping or relying on the hospitality of strangers, Mike met an array of brilliant characters and experienced innumerable random acts of kindness. He encountered drunken priests and drag queens, gnome sanctuaries and hippy communities, fellow travellers and people building for a different type of future. He also found a spirit of unbelievable kindness, generosity and hope that convinced him that Britain was anything but broken. During the five month journey, cycling the byways of the nation, he became...happy.

One Man and His Bike: A 5,000 Mile, Life-Changing Journey Round the Coast of Britain

Sports & Outdoors

Individual Sports

One man's fatigue with 9-to-5 led to a five-month journey around the edge of Britain by bike—here are his adventures
What would happen if you were cycling to the office and just kept on pedaling? Needing a change, Mike Carter did just that. Following the Thames to the sea he embarked on an epic 5,000 mile ride around the entire British coastline—the equivalent of London to Calcutta. He encountered drunken priests, drag queens, and gnome sanctuaries. He met fellow travelers and people building for a different type of future. He also found a spirit of unbelievable kindness and generosity that convinced him that Britain is anything but broken. This is the inspiring and very funny tale of the five months Mike spent cycling the byways of his nation and rediscovering a level of happiness he thought he'd lost forever.

One Man and His Bike: A Life-changing Journey All the Way Around the Coast of Britain

Quantitative Modelling for Management and Business: A Problem-Centered Approach

Business & Money

WILLIAMSON,David

Management & Leadership

Ft Pr

The narrow streets and ancient pubs of historic Fells Point are filled with the spirits of the past. Pirates, privateers, sailors, smugglers and a host of others refused to let death change their address. Walk with Edward Fell in the town he founded in 1760 or flirt with the "ladies" at the Cat's Eye Pub. Climb the stairs at Bertha's Mussels to visit the little girl with no face or let a long-dead nurse take your temperature at the Admiral Fell Inn. Ghost historians and authors Mike Carter and Julia Dray introduce the spiritual residents of Baltimore's iconic waterfront neighborhood.

Haunted Fells Point: Ghosts of Baltimore's Waterfront (Haunted America)

Arts & Photography

Dray, Julia

Photography & Video

The History Press

Haunted Fells Point: Ghosts of Baltimore's Waterfront

History

Dray, Senior Tour Guide Annapolis Ghost Tours Julia

Americas

History Press Library Editions

Mixed Troubles is a light-hearted, engaging, and educational take on the dynamics of what goes on between a husband and wife when they partner in mixed doubles tennis. The book provides practical "keys to success" to help couples understand and overcome challenges so that can achieve a better playing experience. There are no other sports like mixed doubles where a man and woman compete together, particularly for married couples. Tennis players know that nothing is more combustible than playing doubles with a spouse. There are no other books like this in the market. It is written in a story format that everyone will enjoy. Mixed Troubles has the novelty of being written by three brothers with contributions from their wives. The book includes participation from a credentialed psychologist and tennis professional, as well excerpts from interviews with real-life married tennis couples. The book will help married couples enhance their time together and grow their relationships while having fun playing mixed doubles.

Mixed Troubles: How to Play Mixed Doubles with Your Spouse and Live to Tell About It

Self-Help

Carter, Greg

Carter, Pat

Relationships

Advanced Publishing LLC

Jingle Time combines learning with fun, and children love it! This book provides a dip-in selection of jingles - rhyming songs - which can be used as a stimulus with young children (ages 4-8) for many kinds of learning. These include developing listening skills - children repeat the rhymes and act out the storylines, individually or in groups; learning about others' lives and experiences, and relating this to their own world; developing memory skills through repetition and rhythmic awareness, which helps both reading and spelling; building performance skills, perhaps for parents' evening or assembly presentations; extending language and vocabulary; giving children freedom to work on expressive movement - jingle actions involve just using their own bodies, not other apparatus or gymnastic skills; building sequencing skills - remembering verses of longer jingles and retelling the storylines.   Each jingle has accompanying notes for teachers - but children often have their own ideas too. Music scores - for piano and guitar - are also provided, so that children can sing along or play percussion.

Jingle Time

Education & Teaching

MacIntyre, Christine

Schools & Teaching

David Fulton Publishers

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