Bicycle Book

Name: Bicycle Book
Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
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AvBella Bathurst

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Engelska, 2011

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A rip-roaring narrative celebration of the 21st century’s great transport success story: the bicycle. Millions of us now cycle, some obsessively, and this glorious concoction of history, anecdote, adventure and lycra-clad pedalling is the perfect read for two-wheelers of all kinds.`At last – a bicycle book for the rest of us…. A book for the sort of cyclist who likes cycling and reading and stories.’ GuardianTwo wheels. A frame. Two pedals. What could be simpler than a bicycle?And yet the bike continues to inspire a passionate following. Since the millennium its use in Britain has doubled, and then doubled again. Thousands now cycle to work, with more and more taking it up every day.Acclaimed author Bella Bathurst takes us on a journey through cycling’s best stories and strangest incarnations, from the bicycle as a weapon of warfare to the secret life of couriers and the alchemy of framebuilding. With a cast of characters including the woman who watercycled across the Channel, the man who raced India’s Deccan Queen train and several of today’s top cyclists, she offers us a brilliantly engaging portrait of cycling’s past, present and world-conquering future.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2011-03-31
Språk:Engelska
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9780007433612
Förlag:HarperCollins Publishers

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Bella Bathurst is a writer and photographer. Her first book, ‘The Lighthouse Stevensons: The Extraordinary Story of the Building of the Scottish Lighthouses by the Ancestors of Robert Louis Stevenson’, was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and won the Somerset Maugham Prize. Her novel ‘Special’ was published in 2002 to wide acclaim, and her most recent book, ‘The Wreckers’, was shortlisted for the Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger Award. She has written for the Observer, Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph and Guardian, among many others.

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Praise for 'The Wreckers': '[Bathurst] is wry, perceptive, laconic, occasionally downright funny and uncannily skilled at recreating atmosphere!a pleasure to read.' Daily Telegraph 'Entertaining and gossipy!Bathurst pens vivid accounts of hazardous stretches of our coastline and the depredations of the inhabitants.' Sunday Telegraph 'A luminious tale of shifting sands and treacherous seas.' Guardian Praise for 'The Lighthouse Stevensons': 'An enthralling story, vivaciously recounted' Observer More praise for 'The Lighthouse Stevensons': 'Deeply accomplished! this splendid book preserves the memory of great deeds performed in a heroic era' Sunday Times 'From the summit of this first terrific book [Bella Bathurst] looks to become one of the best biographers of her generation' The Times 'A grand book doing for lighthouses what Dava Sobel's "Longitude" did for marine chronometers' Sunday Telegraph