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Two Wheels In The Dust
Author | : Anne Mustoe |
Publsiher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2011-08-31 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9780753547823 |
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India is no place for the faint-hearted cyclist. The streets are jammed with cars, busses, rickshaws, animals, fortune-tellers, barbers, beggars and people sleeping or cooking. Following the success of her two previous outings, A Bike Ride and Lone Traveller, adventuresome ex-headmistress Anne Mustoe donned the cycle helmet once more and set out on an exhilarating journey round the Indian subcontinent. Beginning in Kathmandu in Nepal and ending in the tranquil hill town of Kandy in Sri Lanka, Anne's amazing journey is told with keen observation and the relish of the open road.
Living on Two Wheels 2nd Edition
Author | : Dennis Coello |
Publsiher | : Ross Books |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2010-11 |
Genre | : Bicycle touring |
ISBN | : 9780894960611 |
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Coello explains how the average family can live with no car. He begins by explaining why bikes are designed differently for different uses and detailing how to choose one, how to maintain it, and how to tour and travel by bike.
Culture on Two Wheels
Author | : Jeremy Withers,Daniel P. Shea |
Publsiher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 363 |
Release | : 2016-07-01 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 9780803290457 |
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Bicycles have more cultural identities than many realize, functioning not only as literal vehicles in a text but also as “vehicles” for that text’s themes, ideas, and critiques. In the late nineteenth century the bicycle was seen as a way for the wealthy urban elite to reconnect with nature and for women to gain a measure of personal freedom, while during World War II it became a utilitarian tool of the French Resistance and in 1970s China stood for wealth and modernization. Lately it has functioned variously as the favored ideological steed of environmentalists, a means of community bonding and aesthetic self-expression in hip hop, and the ride of choice for bike messenger–idolizing urban hipsters. Culture on Two Wheels analyzes the shifting cultural significance of the bicycle by examining its appearances in literary, musical, and cinematic works spanning three continents and more than 125 years of history. Bringing together essays by a variety of cyclists and scholars with myriad angles of approach, this collection highlights the bicycle’s flexibility as a signifier and analyzes the appearance of bicycles in canonical and well-known texts such as Samuel Beckett’s modernist novel Molloy, the Oscar-winning film Breaking Away, and various Stephen King novels and stories, as well as in lesser-known but equally significant texts, such as the celebrated Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky’s film Sacrifice and Elizabeth Robins Pennell’s nineteenth-century travelogue A Canterbury Pilgrimage, the latter of which traces the route of Chaucer’s pilgrims via bicycle. Listen to an interview with the author.
Two Wheels Good
Author | : Jody Rosen |
Publsiher | : Crown |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2023-06-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780804141512 |
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A panoramic revisionist portrait of the nineteenth-century invention that is transforming the twenty-first-century world “Excellent . . . calls to mind Bill Bryson, John McPhee, Rebecca Solnit.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker The bicycle is a vestige of the Victorian era, seemingly at odds with our age of smartphones and ride-sharing apps and driverless cars. Yet we live on a bicycle planet. Across the world, more people travel by bicycle than any other form of transportation. Almost anyone can learn to ride a bike—and nearly everyone does. In Two Wheels Good, journalist and critic Jody Rosen reshapes our understanding of this ubiquitous machine, an ever-present force in humanity’s life and dream life—and a flash point in culture wars—for more than two hundred years. Combining history, reportage, travelogue, and memoir, Rosen’s book sweeps across centuries and around the globe, unfolding the bicycle’s saga from its invention in 1817 to its present-day renaissance as a “green machine,” an emblem of sustainability in a world afflicted by pandemic and climate change. Readers meet unforgettable characters: feminist rebels who steered bikes to the barricades in the 1890s, a prospector who pedaled across the frozen Yukon to join the Klondike gold rush, a Bhutanese king who races mountain bikes in the Himalayas, a cycle-rickshaw driver who navigates the seething streets of the world’s fastest-growing megacity, astronauts who ride a floating bicycle in zero gravity aboard the International Space Station. Two Wheels Good examines the bicycle’s past and peers into its future, challenging myths and clichés while uncovering cycling’s connection to colonial conquest and the gentrification of cities. But the book is also a love letter: a reflection on the sensual and spiritual pleasures of bike riding and an ode to an engineering marvel—a wondrous vehicle whose passenger is also its engine.
Two Wheels to Panam
Author | : William Carroll |
Publsiher | : Coda Publications |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Central America |
ISBN | : 9780910390408 |
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10 Years on 2 Wheels
Author | : Helge Pedersen |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Motorcycling |
ISBN | : 0944958389 |
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Municipal Journal and Public Works
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 1040 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Municipal engineering |
ISBN | : UOM:39015080064333 |
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The New York Coach maker s Magazine
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 1860 |
Genre | : Carriage and wagon making |
ISBN | : HARVARD:32044103133658 |
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