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'Full of delightful anecdotes and interviews and fascinating historical tales' Mail on Sunday
A panoramic portrait of the wonderous vehicle whose passenger is also its engine.
A toy, a tool, a liberator, or complete nuisance: the bicycle has been many things to many people over the decades, yet it endures as the most popular form of transport in the world. How has such a simple machine achieved so much?
Combining history, travelogue and memoir, Jody Rosen reshapes our understanding of this ubiquitous vehicle from its invention in 1817 to its present-day renaissance as a 'green machine'. Readers meet unforgettable characters: women's suffragists who steered bikes to the barricades in the 1890s, a Bhutanese king who races mountain bikes in the Himalayas, astronauts who ride a floating bicycle in zero gravity.
By examining the bicycle's past and peering into its future, Two Wheels Good forms a joyful ode to an engineering marvel of global importance.
'Funny, precise, surprising' Adam Gopnik
'Love for two-wheeled transport runs through every sentence' Economist
'Wry, rich, deeply researched' Patrick Radden Keefe
'Full of delightful anecdotes and interviews and fascinating historical tales' Mail on Sunday
A panoramic portrait of the wonderous vehicle whose passenger is also its engine.
A toy, a tool, a liberator, or complete nuisance: the bicycle has been many things to many people over the decades, yet it endures as the most popular form of transport in the world. How has such a simple machine achieved so much?
Combining history, travelogue and memoir, Jody Rosen reshapes our understanding of this ubiquitous vehicle from its invention in 1817 to its present-day renaissance as a 'green machine'. Readers meet unforgettable characters: women's suffragists who steered bikes to the barricades in the 1890s, a Bhutanese king who races mountain bikes in the Himalayas, astronauts who ride a floating bicycle in zero gravity.
By examining the bicycle's past and peering into its future, Two Wheels Good forms a joyful ode to an engineering marvel of global importance.
'Funny, precise, surprising' Adam Gopnik
'Love for two-wheeled transport runs through every sentence' Economist
'Wry, rich, deeply researched' Patrick Radden Keefe
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2023 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Sport |
| Produktart: | Nachschlagewerke |
| Rubrik: | Hobby & Freizeit |
| Thema: | Auto-/Motorrad-/Rad-/Flugsport |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | 396 S. |
| ISBN-13: | 9780099593591 |
| ISBN-10: | 0099593599 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Herstellernummer: | 700286 |
| Ausstattung / Beilage: | B-format paperback |
| Einband: | Paperback |
| Autor: | Rosen, Jody |
| Hersteller: |
Vintage
Random House UK |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com |
| Maße: | 198 x 130 x 26 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Jody Rosen |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 17.08.2023 |
| Gewicht: | 0,34 kg |
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