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A Ride In The Sun [5] [6] Peggy Iris Thomas 1954 1950-1952 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: Robert M. Pirsig: 1974 Fictionalized Jupiter's Travels: Ted Simon: 1979 1973-1977 Two Wheels To Adventure: Alaska to Argentina by Motorcycle [7] Danny Liska 1989 Investment Biker: On the Road With Jim Rogers [8] Jim Rogers: 1994 1990-1992 ...
Just as Scipio gets off the merry-go-round, the gang's fence Barbarossa arrives, intending to take his payment. As revenge for his cruel actions, Scipio (pretending to be his father) fools him into taking a ride. Barbarossa rapidly deages. He breaks the merry-go-round in panic, permanently stopping its magic, but he has become a young boy.
Hagrid's Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure features seven launches – the most of any roller coaster in the world at the time of opening – and reaches a maximum speed of 50 mph (80 km/h). [17] It also features a unique free-fall vertical drop element, [ 26 ] in which the track disconnects and drops with the train 17 feet (5.2 m), where ...
Van Allsburg based the story on a mental image of a child wandering into the woods on a foggy night and wondering where a train was headed. [4]At the premiere of the film, Van Allsburg stated that Pere Marquette 1225, a 2-8-4 Berkshire N-1 class steam locomotive, formerly owned by the Michigan State University and now owned by the Steam Railroading Institute in Owosso, was the inspiration for ...
In the 1980s, Zane is living a pathetic life without money or employment. When a magic gem merchant cheats Zane out of an opportunity for romance, Zane decides to take his own life. As he starts to pull the trigger, he sees the spectre of Death advancing on him. Startled, he pulls the gun from his own head and shoots Death right between the eyes.
The book tells the story of Sonea, a young girl from the slums, as she discovers her magical potential. When she hurls a stone through a magical barrier, accidentally injuring a magician behind it, Sonea finds herself on the run from the powerful Magicians' Guild. The magicians must find her before her uncontrolled and untrained powers kill her ...
The Thirty-Nine Steps – (book by John Buchan, films, one by Alfred Hitchcock) features a sequence where the character Richard Hannay escapes from the police by jumping from a train on the Forth Bridge in Scotland. The Trackman (book) – by Karl Davis – a police procedural crime novel set in Hull, London, Newcastle and the home counties ...
The novella "To Ride Pegasus" is a prequel to the three previously published stories. It explains the fortunate scientific discovery of psionic powers and the earliest establishment of the Talents in human society, in Greater New York late during the 20th century (in the future depicted, the conurbation spreading from New Jersey to Manhattan gets named "Jerhattan").