Free Ride
- Author Noraly Schoenmaker, read by Imani Jade Powers
- Narrator Imani Jade Powers
- Publisher Dorling Kindersley Ltd
- Publish Date 5 June 2025
- Run Time 8 hours and 17 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Autobiography: adventurers and explorers, Memoirs, Motorcycles: general interest, Travel guides: road travel / road trips, Travel writing.
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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 in search of a new beginning. Her plans were dashed when she fell quickly and helplessly in love: with a motorcycle. Behind the handlebars, she felt alive and free – nimble enough to trace the narrowest paths, powerful enough to travel the longest of roads.
She covered remote and utterly unfamiliar territory; broke down on impossibly steep mountains; and pushed too many miles along empty roads, farther and farther from civilization. Through her travels, she discovered the true beauty of the world - the kindness of its people, the simplicity of its open spaces, as well as her own inner strength.
In spirit of The Motorcycle Diaries and Wild, this is an inspiring story of self-discovery and renewal. Filled with unforgettable figures, hilarious disasters and powerful human connections, it shows you what happens when you open your heart and let the world in.
© 2025 Noraly Schoenmaker (P) 2025 DK Audio
Imani Jade Powers is an actor, writer and singer who has narrated over 90 audiobooks. She has narrated romance, contemporary fiction, fantasy and YA. Including the likes of Ava Reid’s Lady Macbeth and Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s The Beautiful Ones. When she is not narrating she is acting specifically on Broadway in Harry Potter & The Cursed Child.
Noraly Schoenmaker is the creator of Itchy Boots, a YouTube channel with more than two 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 travelled regions of the globe. Trained as a biologist and geologist, she is based in the Netherlands.
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| Author | Noraly Schoenmaker, read by Imani Jade Powers |
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| Narrator | Imani Jade Powers |
| Duration | 8 hours and 17 minutes |
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| ISBN | 9780241802083 |
| Format | Audiobook |
| Publisher | Dorling Kindersley Ltd |
| Genre | Autobiography: adventurers and explorers, Memoirs, Motorcycles: general interest, Travel guides: road travel / road trips, Travel writing |
| Availability | AU, GB, IE |
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