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Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle (Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Sports Book Awards 2023)
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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
ISBN 13: 9780099593591
Author: Jody Rosen
Author(s) | Jody Rosen |
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Format | Paperback |
ISBN 13 | 9780099593591 |
Pages | 416 |
ISBN 10 | 0099593599 |
Publisher | Vintage |
Weight | 329 g |
Publication Date | 17-08-2023 |
Dewey | 629.2272 |
Categories | Academic, Non Fiction, History, General History |