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

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    Lieferstatus:   Auf Bestellung (Lieferzeit unbekannt)
    Veröffentlichung:  August 2022  
    Genre:  Ratgeber 
     
    19th century, c 1800 to c 1899 / 20th Century / 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999 / 21st Century / c 1800 to c 1900 / Cycle racing / Early 21st century c 2000 to c 2050 / History / HISTORY / General / HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century / HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / HISTORY / Modern / 21st Century / HISTORY / World / History# specific events and topics / Impact of science & technology on society / Impact of science and technology on society / Inventions & inventors / Inventions and inventors / Memoirs / Reportage & collected journalism / Reportage, journalism or collected columns / Self-sufficiency and ‘green’ lifestyle / Social & cultural history / Social and cultural history / Sustainability / TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History / TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Inventions / TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues / Travel writing / World
    ISBN:  9781847923073 
    EAN-Code: 
    9781847923073 
    Verlag:  Random House Uk 
    Einband:  Gebunden  
    Sprache:  English  
    Dimensionen:  H 242 mm / B 163 mm / D 37 mm 
    Gewicht:  626 gr 
    Seiten:  416 
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    **SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2023**

    A panoramic revisionist portrait of the nineteenth-century invention that is transforming the twenty-first-century world.


    'The real feat of this book is that it takes us on a ride-across the centuries and around the globe, through startling history and vivid first-person reporting.' - Patrick Radden Keefe, New York Times bestselling author of Empire of Pain

    The bicycle is a vestige of the Victorian era, seemingly out of pace with our age of smartphones and ridesharing apps and driverless cars. Yet across the world, more people travel by bicycle than by any other form of transportation. Almost anyone can learn to ride a bike - and nearly everyone does.

    In Two Wheels Good, writer and critic Jody Rosen reshapes our understanding of this ubiquitous machine, an ever-present force in humanity's life and dreamlife, and a flashpoint in culture wars for more for than two hundred years. Combining history, reportage, travelogue, and memoir, Rosen unfolds the bicycle's saga from its invention in 1817 to its present-day renaissance as a 'green machine' 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 Bhutanese king who races mountain bikes in the Himalayas, 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.

    'Love for two-wheeled transport runs through every sentence in the book' - Economist

    'The best thing I've ever read on a single subject' - Lauren Collins, author of When in French

    'This is social history as it ought to be written: funny, precise, surprising, anti-dogmatic and unafraid of following a story' - Adam Gopnik, author of Paris to the Moon

      



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