Author: Peter DrinkellPublisher:
ISBN: 9781908714961
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Everything from bike fit to bike kit and from maintenance to group riding for the young cycling enthusiast!
The Young Cyclist's Companion
Author: Peter DrinkellPublisher:
ISBN: 9781908714961
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Everything from bike fit to bike kit and from maintenance to group riding for the young cycling enthusiast!
Reading for the Young
Author: John Frederick SargentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Readings for the Young
Author: John Frederick SargentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Supplement to Reading for the Young
Author: John Frederick SargentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Youth's Companion
Author: The Youth's Companion
Author: Nathaniel WillisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
Includes music.
Around the World on a Bicycle
Author: Fred A. BirchmorePublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820357294
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
This classic, once hard-to-find travelogue recalls one of the very first around-the-world bicycle treks. Filled with rarely matched feats of endurance and determination, Around the World on a Bicycle tells of a young cyclist’s ever-changing and maturing worldview as he ventures through forty countries on the eve of World War II. It is an exuberant, youthful account, harking back to a time when the exploits of Richard Byrd, Amelia Earhart, and other adventurers stirred the popular imagination. In 1935 Fred A. Birchmore left the small American town of Athens, Georgia, to continue his college studies in Europe. In his spare time, Birchmore toured the continent on a one-speed bike he called Bucephalus (after the name of Alexander the Great’s horse). A born wanderer, Birchmore broadened his travels to include the British Isles and even the Mediterranean. After a lengthy, unplanned detour in Egypt, Birchmore put his studies on hold, pointed Bucephalus eastward, and just kept going. From desert valleys to frozen peaks, from palace promenades to muddy jungle trails, Birchmore saw it all on his eighteen-month, twenty-five-thousand-mile odyssey. Some of the people he encountered had never seen a bike—or, for that matter, an Anglo-European. As a good travel experience should, Birchmore’s trip changed his outlook on strangers. Always daring, outgoing, and energetic, he now saw an innate goodness in people. In between bone-breaking spills, wild animal attacks, and privation of all kinds, Birchmore learned that he had little to fear from human encounters. That he traveled through a world on the brink of global war makes this lesson even more remarkable—and timeless.
The Cyclist's Companion
Author: John HowardPublisher: Penguin Group
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Miles from Nowhere
Author: Barbara SavagePublisher: Mountaineers Books
ISBN: 1680510371
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
This is the same amazing story as the current version, but with an updated cover and foreword. If you'd like to read Barbara Savage's two-year around the world bicycle trip now, you can order the current version here. Miles from Nowhere is the story of Barbara and Larry Savage’s sometimes dangerous, often zany, but ultimately rewarding 23,000-mile bicycle odyssey, which took them through 25 countries in two years. Along the way, these near-neophyte cyclists on their ten-speeds encountered warm-hearted strangers eager to share food and shelter, bicycle-hating drivers who ran them off the road, various wild animals (including an attack camel), rock-throwing Egyptians, overprotective Thai policeman, motherly New Zealanders, meteorological disasters, bodily indignities, and great personal joys. The stress of traveling together constantly tested yet strengthened the young couple's relationship and as their trip ends, you'll find yourself yearning for Barbara and Larry to jump back on their bikes and keep pedaling. Originally published in 1983, Miles from Nowhere has provided inspiration for legions of modern travel-adventurers and writers.
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