Sea History 173 Featured Article: "If Boat is Going Down"—Bikes, Boats, and Robert Pirsig, by Paul F. Johnston
NATIONAL MARITIME HISTORICAL SOCIETY LATEST NEWS Sea History 173 Featured Article: “If Boat is Going Down”—Bikes, Boats, and Robert Pirsig, by Paul F. Johnston Best-selling author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Bob Pirsig spent a good portion of his adult life intimately involved with boats—from building to living aboard them, to cruising and, of course, maintaining them. His widow recently donated a collection of personal items to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. Museum curator Paul Johnston shares with us the details of Pirsig’s love o...