Author: Anne Mustoe
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0753547821
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
India is no place for the faint-hearted cyclist. The streets are jammed with cars, busses, rickshaws, animals, fortune-tellers, barbers, beggars and people sleeping or cooking. Following the success of her two previous outings, A Bike Ride and Lone Traveller, adventuresome ex-headmistress Anne Mustoe donned the cycle helmet once more and set out on an exhilarating journey round the Indian subcontinent. Beginning in Kathmandu in Nepal and ending in the tranquil hill town of Kandy in Sri Lanka, Anne's amazing journey is told with keen observation and the relish of the open road.
Two Wheels In The Dust
Author: Anne Mustoe
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0753547821
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
India is no place for the faint-hearted cyclist. The streets are jammed with cars, busses, rickshaws, animals, fortune-tellers, barbers, beggars and people sleeping or cooking. Following the success of her two previous outings, A Bike Ride and Lone Traveller, adventuresome ex-headmistress Anne Mustoe donned the cycle helmet once more and set out on an exhilarating journey round the Indian subcontinent. Beginning in Kathmandu in Nepal and ending in the tranquil hill town of Kandy in Sri Lanka, Anne's amazing journey is told with keen observation and the relish of the open road.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0753547821
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
India is no place for the faint-hearted cyclist. The streets are jammed with cars, busses, rickshaws, animals, fortune-tellers, barbers, beggars and people sleeping or cooking. Following the success of her two previous outings, A Bike Ride and Lone Traveller, adventuresome ex-headmistress Anne Mustoe donned the cycle helmet once more and set out on an exhilarating journey round the Indian subcontinent. Beginning in Kathmandu in Nepal and ending in the tranquil hill town of Kandy in Sri Lanka, Anne's amazing journey is told with keen observation and the relish of the open road.
Two Wheels Good
Author: Jody Rosen
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448192250
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
**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
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448192250
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
**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
Living on Two Wheels - 2nd Edition
Author: Dennis Coello
Publisher: Ross Books
ISBN: 089496061X
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Coello explains how the average family can live with no car. He begins by explaining why bikes are designed differently for different uses and detailing how to choose one, how to maintain it, and how to tour and travel by bike.
Publisher: Ross Books
ISBN: 089496061X
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Coello explains how the average family can live with no car. He begins by explaining why bikes are designed differently for different uses and detailing how to choose one, how to maintain it, and how to tour and travel by bike.
Two Wheels North
Author: Evelyn McDaniel Gibb
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
A captivating account of a journey in 1909 that today we can only dream about--one that finds two boys on the road not only to Seattle, but also to manhood.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
A captivating account of a journey in 1909 that today we can only dream about--one that finds two boys on the road not only to Seattle, but also to manhood.
American Machinist Grinding Book
Author: Fred Herbert Colvin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Grinding and polishing
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Grinding and polishing
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Culture on Two Wheels
Author: Jeremy Withers
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803269722
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
"Analyzes how print and visual texts of various kinds reflect, refract, and respond to the social and political significance of the bicycle from its origins in the nineteenth century to the present"--
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803269722
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
"Analyzes how print and visual texts of various kinds reflect, refract, and respond to the social and political significance of the bicycle from its origins in the nineteenth century to the present"--
So This Is Love
Author: Gilbert Reid
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1466823364
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Adroitly capturing love and all its nuances, So This Is Love pulsates with underlying currents of violence, sex, passion, and the politics of desire. Tracing the globe, individuals find themselves caught in the entanglements of memory, forgetting, and the imminent future. In an overcrowded hospital in war-torn Bosnia, a Muslim soldier and a young Serbian woman---one crippled, the other blind---find solace in each other. In small-town Ontario, a father and daughter relive the summer when an ethereal girl entered their lives and a brutal assault changed everything. In an apartment peopled with an eclectic mix of bohemian expatriates, a man pursues a young suicidal waif at the height of the sexual revolution in 1970s Paris. So this is love. In sparkling, insightful prose, Gilbert Reid's provocative debut collection of short stories takes the reader on a journey through war zones, bohemian apartments, idyllic rural farms, and the dark streets of Rome. Madly romantic, subtly subversive, and utterly accomplished, So This Is Love is at times morose, at times perverse, at times beautiful, but always honest.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1466823364
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Adroitly capturing love and all its nuances, So This Is Love pulsates with underlying currents of violence, sex, passion, and the politics of desire. Tracing the globe, individuals find themselves caught in the entanglements of memory, forgetting, and the imminent future. In an overcrowded hospital in war-torn Bosnia, a Muslim soldier and a young Serbian woman---one crippled, the other blind---find solace in each other. In small-town Ontario, a father and daughter relive the summer when an ethereal girl entered their lives and a brutal assault changed everything. In an apartment peopled with an eclectic mix of bohemian expatriates, a man pursues a young suicidal waif at the height of the sexual revolution in 1970s Paris. So this is love. In sparkling, insightful prose, Gilbert Reid's provocative debut collection of short stories takes the reader on a journey through war zones, bohemian apartments, idyllic rural farms, and the dark streets of Rome. Madly romantic, subtly subversive, and utterly accomplished, So This Is Love is at times morose, at times perverse, at times beautiful, but always honest.
American Engineer and Railroad Journal
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroad engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1022
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroad engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1022
Book Description
The Rural Cyclopedia
Author: John Marius Wilson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 954
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 954
Book Description