Wilderness Road Odyssey: A Cyclist's Journey Through Present and Past

By Fess Green

From 1994 to 1998, Fess Green, a professor at Radford University in Virginia, used a week of vacation time each year to follow as closely as possible the originial route of the Wilderness Road... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0936015942
• ISBN13: 9780936015941
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Pocahontas Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.8" x 5.5"
• Age Range: 16 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 11 and higher

Customer Reviews

A most enjoyable vacation ride and read

Wilderness Road Odyssey: A Cyclist's Journey Through Present And Past is a travelogue with maps, black-and-white photographs, and the author's descriptions of historic attractions experienced along Wilderness Road that passes through southwestern Virginia, the Cumberland Gap, and on to the Ohio River Valley. A most enjoyable vacation ride and read especially for armchair travelers, that blends the author's personal journey with his pedaled one. Narrated in a simple, storytelling style, Wilderness Road Odyssey is the next best experience to travelling the road oneself.