SCOTT ABBOTT is the author of a book about Freemasonry and the German novel, and of two books about travel and literature (with Zarko Radakovic): Repetitions and Vampires and A Reasonable Dictionary. He was the jazz critic for the Salt Lake Observer and has translated several works by Austrian writer Peter Handke. He is professor of integrated studies, philosophy, and humanities at Utah Valley University.
SAM RUSHFORTH is former dean of the College of Science and Health at Utah Valley University. Under his watch, the university has grown to thirty-three thousand students. He studies aquatic botany and wetland ecology and has published more than one hundred papers and books. He has mentored nearly forty graduate students, who are now working all over the world. He lives in Orem, Utah.
"Abbott and Rushforth have a knack for entertaining readers."
--BOOKLIST
"Wild Rides provides an intimate glimpse into the minds and hearts
of two men, and the outcome is both surprising and refreshing."
--DESERET NEWS
"A highly versatile, smart, entertaining, incredibly informative
book for readers of all ages and interests. Abbott and Rushforth's
literary counterpoint and harmonizing are as humorously engaging as
they are elucidating." --THE UTAH REVIEW
"Ride along with Sam and Scott through spectacular landscape and
share their vast knowledge of its many plants and creatures and the
way their lives--and ours--turn with each new season." --CHIP WARD,
author of Stony Mesa Sagas
"It's like Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance meets Desert
Solitaire in Utah County."
--SCOTT CARRIER, author of Running After Antelope
"Sometimes you have to get on the bike and go out with the wild
things if you're going to get there at all. Scott Abbott and Sam
Rushforth show us the way. Mount up. Here's our ticket to ride."
--CHARLES BOWDEN, author of Blues for Cannibals
"Following the conversations and adventures of Scott and Sam in
this work was a delight--my only complaint is that I was stung by
an absolute desire to join them. The gusto and passion they have
for this land comes through on every page."
--STEVEN L. PECK, author of The Scholar of Moab
"Imagine Plato's Phaedrus and a field guide to Utah fauna and flora
left in an inside pocket of a sweaty, oft-used CamelBak get
acquainted and copulate. The wise progeny, scratched and scented,
philosophizing its way out, would be Wild Rides and Wildflowers."
--THE PROVO CANYON REVIEW
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