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Robert M. Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance at Amazon, a used book store, or your parent’s book shelf. Still, it’s available on the web as PDF, at least two text files — one, two — And even as a podcast (subscribe via iTunes).

Lots of people have re-traced the journey described in the book, at least one person has posted a travelogue about it to the web. Henry Gurr has posted Pirsig’s own photos, and Christoph Bartneck pointed out many locations in Google Maps:

• Minnesota > Minneapolis > Breckenridge
• North Dakota > Ellendale > Hague
• South Dakota > Herreid > Mobridge > Lemmon > Bowman
• Montana > Baker > Miles City > Laurel > Red Lodge > Cooke City > Yellowstone National Park > Gardiner > Bozeman > English Department at the Montana State University > Missoula > Three Forks > Butte > Anaconda > Philipsburg > Hall > Lolo Pass > Billings
• Idaho > White Bird > Riggins > New Meadows > Cambridge > Brownlee Dam
• Oregon > Richland > Baker > Unity > Dixie Pass > Prairie City > Dayville > Mitchell > Prineville > Bend > La Pine > Crater Lake > Klamath Lake > Medford > Grants Pass
• California > Crescent City > Arcata > Leggett > Mendocino > Caspar, CA, Point Cabrillo Road – The Climax of the book. > San Francisco, CA, Haight / Divisadero – The corner on which Chris died.

NPR interviewed the author at the book’s release in 1974, when he was living in Minnesota.

duckett’s Wired But Disconnected on ccMixter is actually ironic: the whole song is the result of an online collaboration.

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