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Two Wheels Good
- The History and Mystery of the Bicycle (Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Sports Book Awards 2023)
Engelsk Paperback
Two Wheels Good
- The History and Mystery of the Bicycle (Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Sports Book Awards 2023)
Engelsk Paperback

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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

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
416
ISBN-13:
9780099593591
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0099593599
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
17 aug 2023
Længde:
29mm
Bredde:
130mm
Højde:
198mm
Forlag:
Vintage Publishing
Oplagsdato:
17 aug 2023
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