Description
| Product ID: | 9780099593591 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Two Wheels Good |
| Subtitle: | The History and Mystery of the Bicycle (Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Sports Book Awards 2023) |
| Authors: | Author: Jody Rosen |
| Page Count: | 416 |
| Subjects: | Memoirs, Memoirs, Reportage, journalism or collected columns, General and world history, Social and cultural history, Material culture, Impact of science and technology on society, Sustainability, Inventions and inventors, Cycle racing, Travel writing, Reportage & collected journalism, General & world history, Social & cultural history, Material culture, Impact of science & technology on society, Sustainability, Inventions & inventors, Cycling, Travel writing, c 1800 to c 1900, 20th century, 21st century |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating **SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2023**'Full of delightful anecdotes and interviews and fascinating historical tales' Mail on SundayA 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** |
| Imprint Name: | Vintage |
| Publisher Name: | Vintage Publishing |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-08-17 |
