Joe Kurmaskie: 5 books
Momentum Is Your Friend
The Metal Cowboy and His Pint-Sized Posse Take on America
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
“A reader’s trifecta: a humorous travelogue, a stirring adventure tale, and a touching family story.” —Bart King, author of The Big Book of Boy Stuff
Most people bring their inner child on an epic adventure. Joe “Metal Cowboy” Kurmaskie actually took his two kids along. For...
Metal Cowboy
Ten Years Further Down the Road Less Pedaled
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
~ One of the greatest books on bicycle touring ever written. ~
Insightful, humane, sublimely amusing—Metal Cowboy finds nobility in the common man, explains true bicycle-love, celebrates the beauty of the country, and charmingly relates encounters with malcontents and misfits. Most of all,...
A Guide to Falling Down in Public
Finding Balance On and Off the Bicycle
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
“A modern day Mark Twain on two wheels.” —USA Today
“Joe Kurmaskie rolls with a keen sense of humor and a big heart.” —Christopher Moore, author of Lamb, Fool, and The Serpent of Venice
The fifth book in the Metal Cowboy series of bicycle-touring tales...
Riding Outside The Lines
International Incidents and Other Misadventures with the Metal Cowboy
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Like a modern-day Don Quixote, Joe Kurmaskie—bike adventurer, writer, and twelve-year-old boy trapped in a man’s body—wanders the world on two wheels, often with hilarious results, in Riding Outside the Lines.
A jaunt through such far-flung locations as Ireland, Australia, Mexico, South America,...
Mud, Sweat, and Gears
A Rowdy Family Bike Adventure Across Canada on Seven Wheels
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
“Mud, Sweat, and Gears is not only an incredible human-powered journey, but it’s also about the intricate, poignant and often hilarious family dynamics that result. The Metal Cowboy’s most compelling book yet.” —Heidi Swift, The Oregonian
After...