Free Ride
Heartbreak, Courage, and the 20,000-Mile Motorcycle Journey that Changed My Life
$24.85
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
29 June 2026
Summary
By the YouTube sensation with more than two million followers, the inspiring account of a woman in her thirties who, in a moment of personal crisis, embarked on an epic, transcontinental motorcycle ride and along the way found a new sense of purpose.
Noraly Schoenmaker was a thirty-something geologist living in the Netherlands when she learned that her live-in partner had been having a long-term affair. Suddenly without a place to stay, she decided to quit her job and jet off to India…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781835982747 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1835982743 |
| Author: | Noraly Schoenmaker |
| Publisher: | Canelo |
| Imprint: | August Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 29 June 2026 |
| Weight: | 280g |
| Dimensions: | 9mm x 129mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
In no-frills, from-the-heart prose, Schoenmaker crafts exhilarating evocations of rarely visited landscapes… * BBC Travel *
Required reading * New York Post *
Schoenmaker’s grounded optimism adds poignancy to her sometimes-fraught experiences – including being catcalled in Iran – and her conversational prose mimics the feeling of receiving regular travel updates from a close friend. It adds up to an inspiring and often-thrilling ode to healing on one’s own terms. * Publishers Weekly *
Noraly Schoenmaker
Noraly Schoenmaker is the creator of Itchy Boots, a YouTube channel with three million loyal subscribers. A motorcycling obsessive, her journeys have taken her the length of the American continent, from Argentina to Alaska; from the northernmost point of Europe to the southernmost point of Africa; and to some of the least traveled regions of the globe. Trained as a biologist and geologist, she is based in the Netherlands.
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