EAN: 9780099593591

TWO WHEELS GOOD - JODY ROSEN KARTONIERT (TB)

**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

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