Two Wheels Good - Jody Rosen
Značka: Vintage Publishing
Dostupnost: in stock
Popis produktu
**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
Specifikace
- Stav: new
- Typ produktu:Knihy > Cizojazyčná literatura > English literature > Nonfiction > History
- GTIN/EAN: 9780099593591
- Prodejce/Program: KnihyDobrovsky.cz