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Two Wheels Good
The History and Mystery of the Bicycle (Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Sports Book Awards 2023)
Taschenbuch von Jody Rosen
Sprache: Englisch

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**SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2023**

'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

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2023**

'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

Über den Autor
Jody Rosen is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. His writing on culture, politics, transportation, and music has appeared in The New Yorker, Slate, New York, the Los Angeles Times, and other publications.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Fahrzeuge, Importe
Produktart: Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik: Hobby & Freizeit
Thema: Fahrrad
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 396 S.
ISBN-13: 9780099593591
ISBN-10: 0099593599
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Rosen, Jody
Hersteller: Random House UK Ltd
Vintage Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestraße 122 a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße: 196 x 129 x 30 mm
Von/Mit: Jody Rosen
Erscheinungsdatum: 17.08.2023
Gewicht: 0,334 kg
Artikel-ID: 125981614
Über den Autor
Jody Rosen is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. His writing on culture, politics, transportation, and music has appeared in The New Yorker, Slate, New York, the Los Angeles Times, and other publications.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Fahrzeuge, Importe
Produktart: Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik: Hobby & Freizeit
Thema: Fahrrad
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 396 S.
ISBN-13: 9780099593591
ISBN-10: 0099593599
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Rosen, Jody
Hersteller: Random House UK Ltd
Vintage Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestraße 122 a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße: 196 x 129 x 30 mm
Von/Mit: Jody Rosen
Erscheinungsdatum: 17.08.2023
Gewicht: 0,334 kg
Artikel-ID: 125981614
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