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""Landings in America is a companion for anyone who's ever turned down a dirt road, chosen the long way home, or camped beside their bike just to hear the world go quiet. Egan may have traded handlebars for a control stick, but the ride is as familiar and fulfilling as ever."" -- ""Motorcycle.com"" (7/10/2025 12:00:00 AM) ""It's no surprise then that, after decades of time spent riding and driving some of the sharpest cars and motorcycles of the 20th Century, Egan took to flying in the purest way possible: in a Piper Cub."" --Emmet White ""Road & Track"" (7/2/2025 12:00:00 AM) ""In the best style of Peter Egan, the sound, smell, and experience of flying the Cub comes through.... And just as with Peter's motorcycle writing, we are greeted with a look into the simple pleasures of small-town America and the people who live there."" --Mark Hoyer ""Cycle World"" (7/11/2025 12:00:00 AM) ""The Hemingway of auto and moto writing."" -- ""Open Road Radio"" (7/7/2025 12:00:00 AM)

""It's Egan at his most witty and charming and, at 77 years old, arguably at the top of his game with what is surely his best work to date. Landings in America is an engaging, often humorous read filled with sage insight."" --Greg Williams ""The Vintagent"" (7/24/2025 12:00:00 AM) Peter Egan finds the most interesting ways to get from Point A to Point B. Best known for his writing about vintage motorcycles and cars, Landings in America--a memoir of a six-week cross-country journey with his wife in a two-seat Piper Cub airplane--is vintage Egan. You'll learn more about America than you did in US History class and come away feeling like you were a passenger on the trip of a lifetime. --John Oreovicz ""Egan's knack for sharing episodes from his life story, including his U.S. Army stint in the Vietnam war, and for taking detours when they're not expected makes for a welcomed book that's long overdue."" --Bud Wilkinson ""RIDE-CT"" (7/20/2025 12:00:00 AM) ""Landings in America is a companion for anyone who's ever turned down a dirt road, chosen the long way home, or camped beside their bike just to hear the world go quiet. Egan may have traded handlebars for a control stick, but the ride is as familiar and fulfilling as ever."" -- ""Motorcycle.com"" (7/10/2025 12:00:00 AM) ""It's no surprise then that, after decades of time spent riding and driving some of the sharpest cars and motorcycles of the 20th Century, Egan took to flying in the purest way possible: in a Piper Cub."" --Emmet White ""Road & Track"" (7/2/2025 12:00:00 AM) ""In the best style of Peter Egan, the sound, smell, and experience of flying the Cub comes through.... And just as with Peter's motorcycle writing, we are greeted with a look into the simple pleasures of small-town America and the people who live there."" --Mark Hoyer ""Cycle World"" (7/11/2025 12:00:00 AM) ""The Hemingway of auto and moto writing."" -- ""Open Road Radio"" (7/7/2025 12:00:00 AM)

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Peter Egan was born in St. Paul, grew up in the small town of Elroy, Wisconsin, served in the US Army in Vietnam, and graduated from the University of Wisconsin in Madison in 1971 with a degree in journalism. He worked as a foreign car mechanic in Madison for nine years to support his passion for sports car and motorcycle road racing and wrote several freelance travel stories for Cycle World magazine in his spare time. In 1980, the magazine, based in Newport Beach, California, hired him as a staff editor, and he and his wife Barbara moved to California. In 1983, he was hired by Cycle World's sister magazine, Road & Track, and continued to write for both magazines through the decade. While living in California, Peter and Barbara took flying lessons at Orange County Airport and became licensed pilots. After renting aircraft for several years, they bought a 1945 Piper Cub and kept it at the small airport in Corona. They moved back to Wisconsin in 1990, taking the Piper Cub with them, and settled down in the country, near the town of Stoughton. Barbara worked as a physical therapist with disabled children and Peter continued to write columns and feature stories for Cycle World and Road & Track for the next thirty years. They are retired now, but still working full time taking care of their dog, six cats, and several old cars, motorcycles, and vintage guitars. Or rehearsing with Egan's garage band, The Defenders.

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