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TWO WHEELS GOOD - JODY ROSEN GEBUNDEN

The bicycle is a vestige of the Victorian era  seemingly out of pace with our age of
smartphones and ridesharing apps and driverless cars. Yet we live on a bicycle planet. Across
the world  more people travel by bicycle than by any other form of transportation. Almost
anyone can learn to ride a bike-and nearly everyone does. In Two Wheels Good  writer and critic
Jody Rosen reshapes our understanding of this ubiquitous machine  an ever-present force in
humanity's life and dreamlife-and a flashpoint in culture wars-for more for than two hundred
years. Combining history  reportage  travelogue  and memoir  Rosen sweeps across centuries and
around the globe  unfolding the bicycle's saga from its invention in 1817 to its present-day
renaissance as a green machine  an emblem of sustainability in a world afflicted by pandemic
and climate change. Readers meet unforgettable characters: feminist rebels who steered bikes to
the barricades in the 1890s  a prospector who pedaled across the frozen Yukon to join the
Klondike gold rush  a Bhutanese king who races mountain bikes in the Himalayas  a cycle
rickshaw driver who navigates the seething streets of the world's fastest-growing megacity 
astronauts who ride a floating bicycle in zero gravity aboard the International Space Station--

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