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Author : Charles George Harper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Cycle Rides Round London written by Charles George Harper and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles G. Harper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781332118045
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Cycle Rides Round London (Classic Reprint) written by Charles G. Harper and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Cycle Rides Round London When that sturdy pioneer John Mayall junior, first rode his velocipede from London to Brighton in 1869, in much physical discomfort, and left his two would-be companions behind him in a crippled condition, no one could have foreseen the days when many thousands of Londoners would with little effort explore the Home Counties on Saturdays or week-ends, and ride sixty or seventy miles a day for the mere pleasure of seeking country lanes and historic spots. There are, indeed, no more ardent lovers of the country, of scenery, of ancient halls and churches, of quiet hamlets and historic castles than London cyclists, who are often, in fact, recruited from the ranks of those pedestrians who, finding they could by means of the cycle extend their expeditions in search of the venerable and the beautiful, have cast away staff and stout walking-boots, and have learnt the nice art of balancing astride two wheels. So much accomplished, the ex-pedestrian has at once widened his radius to at least thrice its former extent, and places that to him were little known, or merely unmeaning names, have become suddenly familiar. Even the sea - that far cry to the Londoner - is within reach of an easy summer day's ride. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Charles G[eorge] 1863-1943 Harper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781361675960
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (759 download)
Download or read book CYCLE RIDES ROUND LONDON written by Charles G[eorge] 1863-1943 Harper and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anna Hughes
Publisher : Summersdale Publishers LTD
ISBN 13 : 1783724781
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (837 download)
Download or read book Eat, Sleep, Cycle written by Anna Hughes and published by Summersdale Publishers LTD. This book was released on 2015-03-12 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I have always loved riding my bike; having the freedom to go where I choose, at my own pace. . . the physical pleasure and satisfaction of a hard day's ride, the fresh air, the work out, the fact that it's free. The bike has always been how I get to places. I wanted to see how far I could get.For Anna, a cycling enthusiast, the decision to ride 4,000 miles solo around the coast of the UK wasn't that hard. Following the river from London until it became the sea, then following the sea until it reached the mouth of the Thames again was a beautifully simple idea. But after epic highs, incredible lows, unforgettable scenery, and unpronounceable place names—as well as a hearty battle with some good old British weather—her simple idea turns into a compelling journey of self-discovery, and an eye-opening insight into what makes the island where she lives so special.
Author : Charles G. Harper
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)
Download or read book Cycle Rides Round London written by Charles G. Harper and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles G. Harper's 'Cycle Rides Round London', takes you on a journey through the beautiful and historic countryside that lies just beyond the city's limits. Written in the turn of the 20th century, this guide to cycling around London offers a fascinating glimpse into a time when the bicycle was just becoming a popular mode of transportation. Through Harper's vivid descriptions, readers can explore the quaint villages, ancient churches, and picturesque landscapes that surround the bustling metropolis. From the Milton country to the Vale of Medway, from rural Middlesex to the banks of the Thames, 'Cycle Rides Round London' is a must-read for anyone interested in the history and natural beauty of this fascinating region.
Author : Charles George HARPER
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (56 download)
Download or read book Cycle Rides Round London. Ridden, Written & Illustrated by C.G. Harper written by Charles George HARPER and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jon Day
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1910749303
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Cyclogeography: Journeys of a London Bicycle Courier written by Jon Day and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cyclogeography is about the bicycle in the cultural imagination and also a portrait of London as seen from the saddle. In the great tradition of the psychogeographers, Jon Day attempts to depart from the map and reclaim the streets of the city. Informed by several grinding years spent as a bicycle courier, he lifts the lid on the solitary life of the courier. Traveling the unmapped byways, shortcuts, and urban edgelands, couriers are the declining, invisible workforce of the city. The parcels they deliver keep things running. For those who survive the crushing toughness of the job, the bicycle can become what holds them together.
Author : Emily Chappell
Publisher : Guardian Faber Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781783350544
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (55 download)
Download or read book What Goes Around written by Emily Chappell and published by Guardian Faber Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At twenty-five, Emily Chappell took up cycle couriering while she searched for a 'real job'. Eight years on, she is still riding. As she flies through the streets of London, dancing with the traffic, Chappell records the pains and pleasures of life on wheels: the dangerous missions; the moments of fear and freedom, and ultimately the simple joy of pedalling onward.
Author : Dave Barter
Publisher : Vertebrate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 191024080X
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Great British Bike Rides written by Dave Barter and published by Vertebrate Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-25 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FREE DOWNLOADABLE GPX ROUTE FILES Great British Bike Rides is a celebration of British road cycling. Author Dave Barter brings together forty of the best road rides in England, Scotland and Wales, searching out the country's most celebrated routes, toughest climbs and most scenic roads. The rides are challenging, they are adventurous, and they are quintessentially British – tackle the gradients of the classic Fred Whitton in the English Lake District; pit yourself against fearsome climbs inspired by the Dragon Ride in Wales; and feast upon Scotland's stunning scenery following wild roads through Assynt and across Skye. Already a fanatical cyclist, author Dave Barter packed in his job and hit the road, embarking on a 9,000-mile tour of Britain to bring together the best riding the country has to offer. His cycle routes are devised specifically for this book, enchaining unforgettable climbs, quiet roads and stunning scenery. Each ride is accompanied by detailed route information, bespoke mapping and a statistical breakdown including every detail the committed cyclist requires. The book is complemented with a set of downloadable GPX files to further aid navigation. Join the cycling revolution and discover the best road cycling in Great Britain.
Author : Mike Carter
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446406040
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (464 download)
Download or read book One Man and His Bike written by Mike Carter and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-06-02 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would happen if you were cycling to the office and just kept on pedalling? Needing a change, Mike Carter did just that. Following the Thames to the sea he embarked on an epic 5,000 mile ride around the entire British coastline - the equivalent of London to Calcutta. He encountered drunken priests, drag queens and gnome sanctuaries. He met fellow travellers and people building for a different type of future. He also found a spirit of unbelievable kindness and generosity that convinced him that Britain is anything but broken. This is the inspiring and very funny tale of the five months Mike spent cycling the byways of the nation.
Author : John Foster Fraser
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780364535882
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (358 download)
Download or read book Round the World on a Wheel written by John Foster Fraser and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-14 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Round the World on a Wheel: Being the Narrative of a Bicycle Ride of Nineteen Thousand Two Hundred and Thirty-Seven Miles Through Seventeen Countries and Across Three Continents by John Foster Fraser, S. Edward Lunn, and F. H. Lowe If only one of us had been killed, or if we had ridden back into London each minus a limb, some excitement would have been caused. As it was we came home quietly. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : C. L. Matéaux
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267477357
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)
Download or read book Rambles Round London Town (Classic Reprint) written by C. L. Matéaux and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Rambles Round London Town SO wrote Washington Irving, and the passage is a fitting introduction 'to the grand Old Minster of which every Londoner is proud, and which no visitor to the metropolis misses seeing. One way to it, among others, is still the King Street of our old rh'yme. AS to the man that keeps the Abbey tombs, he is a very reasonable being, who will leave us to wander in the Chapels at our own discretion, if we desire to do so; while on Mon days, Tuesdays, and holidays he is not even to be seen. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Chris Sidwells
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 147213978X
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)
Download or read book Wild Cycling written by Chris Sidwells and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A wildly inspiring adventure - from armchair to saddle.' Nichiless 'A lovely concise guide.' A. W. Baird Here is plenty of inspiration for anyone who loves to ride off road and get out into the wild and stunning scenery of the British mainland. Each route suggests further routes and the book as a whole introduces the wild cyling potential of a range of different locations. These natural routes to wild places link country lanes, green lanes, bridleways, towpaths, trails and often ancient ways between places. The book is illustrated in colour and each ride includes an annotated route map and ride profile, also OS grid references. And a fact file gives further indispensable details, including an indication of how hard each ride is, and how wild. From Chalk Cliffs and Curious Sound Mirrors in the south-east to Cape Wrath in the north-west, the purity, beauty and essential wildness of these rides will ensure that over the years many of them will become classic, even legendary cycling challenges.
Author : Rob Lilwall
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451607873
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)
Download or read book Cycling Home from Siberia written by Rob Lilwall and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “ It is late October, and the temperature is already –40 degrees . . . My thoughts are filled with frozen rivers that may or may not hold my weight; empty, forgotten valleys haunted by emaciated ghosts; and packs of ravenous, merciless wolves.” Having left his job as a high-school geography teacher, Rob Lilwall arrived in Siberia equipped only with a bike and a healthy dose of fear. Cycling Home from Siberia recounts his epic three-and-a-half-year, 30,000-mile journey back to England via the foreboding jungles of Papua New Guinea, an Australian cyclone, and Afghanistan’s war-torn Hindu Kush. A gripping story of endurance and adventure, this is also a spiritual journey, providing poignant insight into life on the road in some of the world’s toughest corners.
Author : Lonely Planet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781760340834
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Epic Bike Rides of the World written by Lonely Planet and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles fifty cycling routes throughout the world and offers two hundred ideas for bike rides, including a Bavarian beer ride, a sightseeing trip through Sri Lanka, and a Sierra Nevada traverse.
Author : Kat Jungnickel
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 1912685434
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (126 download)
Download or read book Bikes and Bloomers written by Kat Jungnickel and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated history of the evolution of British women's cycle wear. The bicycle in Victorian Britain is often celebrated as a vehicle of women's liberation. Less noted is another critical technology with which women forged new and mobile public lives—cycle wear. This illustrated account of women's cycle wear from Goldsmiths Press brings together Victorian engineering and radical feminist invention to supply a missing chapter in the history of feminism. Despite its benefits, cycling was a material and ideological minefield for women. Conventional fashions were unworkable, with skirts catching in wheels and tangling in pedals. Yet wearing “rational” cycle wear could provoke verbal and sometimes physical abuse from those threatened by newly mobile women. Seeking a solution, pioneering women not only imagined, made, and wore radical new forms of cycle wear but also patented their inventive designs. The most remarkable of these were convertible costumes that enabled wearers to transform ordinary clothing into cycle wear. Drawing on in-depth archival research and inventive practice, Kat Jungnickel brings to life in rich detail the little-known stories of six inventors of the 1890s. Alice Bygrave, a dressmaker of Brixton, registered four patents for a skirt with a dual pulley system built into its seams. Julia Gill, a court dressmaker of Haverstock Hill, patented a skirt that drew material up the waist using a mechanism of rings or eyelets. Mary and Sarah Pease, sisters from York, patented a skirt that could be quickly converted into a fashionable high-collar cape. Henrietta Müller, a women's rights activist of Maidenhead, patented a three-part cycling suit with a concealed system of loops and buttons to elevate the skirt. And Mary Ann Ward, a gentlewoman of Bristol, patented the “Hyde Park Safety Skirt,” which gathered fabric at intervals using a series of side buttons on the skirt. Their unique contributions to cycling's past continue to shape urban life for contemporary mobile women.
Author : Carlton Reid
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1610916891
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Roads Were Not Built for Cars written by Carlton Reid and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2015-04-09 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Roads Were Not Built for Cars, Carlton Reid reveals the pivotal—and largely unrecognized—role that bicyclists played in the development of modern roadways. Reid introduces readers to cycling personalities, such as Henry Ford, and the cycling advocacy groups that influenced early road improvements, literally paving the way for the motor car. When the bicycle morphed from the vehicle of rich transport progressives in the 1890s to the “poor man’s transport” in the 1920s, some cyclists became ardent motorists and were all too happy to forget their cycling roots. But, Reid explains, many motor pioneers continued cycling, celebrating the shared links between transport modes that are now seen as worlds apart. In this engaging and meticulously researched book, Carlton Reid encourages us all to celebrate those links once again.
