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Author : John Foster Fraser
Publisher : Рипол Классик
ISBN 13 : 587913380X
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (791 download)
Download or read book Round the world on a wheel written by John Foster Fraser and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1925 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : JOHN FOSTER. FRASER
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781033238820
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (388 download)
Download or read book ROUND THE WORLD ON A WHEEL written by JOHN FOSTER. FRASER and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Zheutlin
Publisher : Citadel Press
ISBN 13 : 0806530669
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Around The World On Two Wheels written by Peter Zheutlin and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Zheutlin's thoroughly researched account will make you wish you'd been around to catch a glimpse of the extraordinary woman as she went wheeling by. --Bill Littlefield, National Public Radio's Only A Game Until 1894 there were no female sport stars, no product endorsement deals, and no young mothers with the chutzpah to circle the globe on a bicycle. Annie Londonderry changed all of that. When Annie left Boston in June of that year, she was a brash young lady with a 42-pound bicycle, a revolver, a change of underwear, and a dream of freedom. She was also a feisty mother of three who had become the center of what one newspaper called "one of the most novel wagers ever made": a high-stakes bet between two wealthy merchants that a woman could not ride around the world on a bicycle. The epic journey that followed took the connection between athletics and commercialism to dizzying new heights, and turned Annie Londonderry into a symbol of women's equality. A vastly entertaining blend of social history, high adventure, and maverick marketing, Around the World on Two Wheels is an unforgettable portrait of courage, imagination, and tenacity. "Annie was a remarkable woman and well worth getting to know." --Booklist "A wonderful telling of one of the most intriguing, offbeat, and until now, lost chapters in the history of cycling." --David Herlihy, author of Bicycle: The History "A pleasant, affectionate portrait of a free spirit who pedaled her way out of Victorian constraints." --Kirkus Reviews "[A] charming and informative book." --Cape Cod Times "[An] incredible story. . .[a] fascinating book." --NextReads "[A] stirring tale. . .not only a must read, but a must have." --Western Writers of America Roundup Magazine "[A] remarkable saga." --The Winston-Salem (NC) Journal "[R]ead[s]. . .like a novel." --The Columbia (SC) State "[M]eticulously researched. . .illuminat[es] the feeling of a bygone era." --The Portsmouth (NH) Wire Peter Zheutlin has been chasing the story of his great-grandaunt Annie Londonderry for more than four years. He is an avid cyclist and a freelance journalist whose work appears regularly in the Boston Globe and the Christian Science Monitor. He has also written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, AARP Magazine, Bicycling, the New England Quarterly, and other publications. He lives in Needham, Massachusetts.
Author : Jessica A. Barnum and Abigail M. Francis
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0359672957
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (596 download)
Download or read book 'Round the World written by Jessica A. Barnum and Abigail M. Francis and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-05-22 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Round the World is a book about an owl named Alu who wants to build a unicycle and travel around the world. She goes in search of the perfect wheel for her unicycle and has many surprise encounters in nature along the way. Alu's imagination, curiosity and determination remind us that anything is possible when we believe in our ideas. Author Jessica and illustrator Abigail met when Abigail was a student of Jessica's in high school. Together they brought Alu to life!
Author : Alan C. Hess
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Wheels Round the World written by Alan C. Hess and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 23 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (225 download)
Download or read book Summary of Peter Zheutlin's Around The World On Two Wheels written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-06-13T22:59:00Z with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 On June 25, 1894, Annie Cohen Kopchovsky, a young woman from Boston, arrived in Boston to attempt something no woman had done before: an around-the-world bicycle trip. She was dressed in typical late Victorian attire. #2 The bicycle trip was a novel wager between two wealthy Boston men to settle an argument about the equality of the sexes. The woman, Annie Cohen Kopchovsky, was required to earn $5,000 en route above her expenses. #3 Annie was a Jewish woman who was married and had three children. She was a journalist, and she was prohibited from speaking any language other than English. She was extremely unlikely to be able to complete the challenge. #4 The West End of Boston is where the city’s immigrant population lives. It is a tenement district, or in the newer phrase, the slums of Boston. The sound of horseshoes hitting cobblestone ricocheted through the streets, and the smell of ethnic foods wafted from downstairs shops and upstairs apartments.
Author : Joyce E. Chaplin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416596208
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Round About the Earth written by Joyce E. Chaplin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in hardcover in 2012.
Author : Duncan R. Jamieson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442253711
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book The Self-Propelled Voyager written by Duncan R. Jamieson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-09-03 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the last quarter of the nineteenth century, people who wanted to travel independently either walked or rode horses. Then a newly invented machine changed forever the nature of personal transportation. The cycle—self-propelled bicycles, tricycles, and tandems—allowed almost anyone to travel around town, around their region, and around the world. While dramatic developments in equipment, clothing, road surfaces, and amenities make the physicality of cycling much different from the earlier era, the experience of cycling has seen little change. The Self-Propelled Voyager: How the Cycle Revolutionized Travel recounts how a transportation innovation opened the world for not only those who made the journey but also for the armchair travelers who read with interest the cyclists’ accounts of faraway places. Following a brief history of the development of the cycle, this book describes the exploits of long-distance riders who wrote of their experiences, their triumphs, and their tragedies. Duncan R. Jamieson chronicles their journeys, their personal stories, and the times in which they lived, revealing that, despite the continuing rise and fall of cycling interest, people continue to enjoy traveling in the slow lane. Drawing on books and articles by the women and men who rode and wrote of their travels, The Self-Propelled Voyager also features photographs from the 1880s up to the modern day, illustrating the development of the cycle through history. Accessibly written yet comprehensive in its coverage, this book will interest not only the cycling enthusiast but historians focusing on sport and sport tourism as well.
Author : Lucy Seaman Bainbridge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Round the World Letters written by Lucy Seaman Bainbridge and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : C. Munisawmy Mudaliar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (311 download)
Download or read book The Origin of the World written by C. Munisawmy Mudaliar and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The English Journal of Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kirstin Smith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429632274
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)
Download or read book Stunts of Late Nineteenth-Century New York written by Kirstin Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-19 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stunts of Late Nineteenth- Century New York: Aestheticised Precarity, Endangered Liveness examines the emergence of stunts in the media, politics, sport and art of New York at the turn of the twentieth century. This book investigates stunts in sport, media and politics, demonstrating how these risky performances tapped into anxieties and fantasies concerning work, freedom, gendered/ raced/ classed bodies and the commodifi cation of human life. Its case studies examine bridge jumping, extreme walking contests, stunt journalists such as Nellie Bly, and cycling feats including Annie Londonderry’s round- the- world venture. Supported by extensive archival research and Performance Studies theorisations of precarity, liveness and surrogation, Smith theorises an under- examined form which is still prevalent in art, politics and commerce, to show what stunts reveal about value, risk and human life. Suitable for scholars and practitioners across a range of subjects, from Performance Studies to gender studies, to media studies, Stunts of Late Nineteenth- Century New York explores how stunts turned everyday precarity into a spectacle.
Author : Nicholas Senn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Around the World Via Siberia written by Nicholas Senn and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Foster Fraser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781296004408
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Round the World on a Wheel written by John Foster Fraser and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-13 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Steven Vogel
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226381039
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Why the Wheel Is Round written by Steven Vogel and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-10-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no part of our bodies that fully rotates—be it a wrist or ankle or arm in a shoulder socket, we are made to twist only so far. And yet there is no more fundamental human invention than the wheel—a rotational mechanism that accomplishes what our physical form cannot. Throughout history, humans have developed technologies powered by human strength, complementing the physical abilities we have while overcoming our weaknesses. Providing a unique history of the wheel and other rotational devices—like cranks, cranes, carts, and capstans—Why the Wheel Is Round examines the contraptions and tricks we have devised in order to more efficiently move—and move through—the physical world. Steven Vogel combines his engineering expertise with his remarkable curiosity about how things work to explore how wheels and other mechanisms were, until very recently, powered by the push and pull of the muscles and skeletal systems of humans and other animals. Why the Wheel Is Round explores all manner of treadwheels, hand-spikes, gears, and more, as well as how these technologies diversified into such things as hand-held drills and hurdy-gurdies. Surprisingly, a number of these devices can be built out of everyday components and materials, and Vogel’s accessible and expansive book includes instructions and models so that inspired readers can even attempt to make their own muscle-powered technologies, like trebuchets and ballista. Appealing to anyone fascinated by the history of mechanics and technology as well as to hobbyists with home workshops, Why the Wheel Is Round offers a captivating exploration of our common technological heritage based on the simple concept of rotation. From our leg muscles powering the gears of a bicycle to our hands manipulating a mouse on a roller ball, it will be impossible to overlook the amazing feats of innovation behind our daily devices.
Author : Herbert William Lewis Way
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Round the World for Gold written by Herbert William Lewis Way and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert L. McCullough
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262552493
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)
Download or read book Old Wheelways written by Robert L. McCullough and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2024-06-11 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How American bicyclists shaped the landscape and left traces of their journeys for us in writing, illustrations, and photographs. In the later part of the nineteenth century, American bicyclists were explorers, cycling through both charted and uncharted territory. These wheelmen and wheelwomen became keen observers of suburban and rural landscapes, and left copious records of their journeys—in travel narratives, journalism, maps, photographs, illustrations. They were also instrumental in the construction of roads and paths (“wheelways”)—building them, funding them, and lobbying legislators for them. Their explorations shaped the landscape and the way we look at it, yet with few exceptions their writings have been largely overlooked by landscape scholars, and many of the paths cyclists cleared have disappeared. In Old Wheelways, Robert McCullough restores the pioneering cyclists of the nineteenth century to the history of American landscapes. McCullough recounts marathon cycling trips around the Northeast undertaken by hardy cyclists, who then describe their journeys in such magazines as The Wheelman Illustrated and Bicycling World; the work of illustrators (including Childe Hassam, before his fame as a painter); efforts by cyclists to build better rural roads and bicycle paths; and conflicts with park planners, including the famous Olmsted Firm, who often opposed separate paths for bicycles. Today's ubiquitous bicycle lanes owe their origins to nineteenth century versions, including New York City's “asphalt ribbons.” Long before there were “rails to trails,” there was a movement to adapt existing passageways—including aqueduct corridors, trolley rights-of-way, and canal towpaths—for bicycling. The campaigns for wheelways, McCullough points out, offer a prologue to nearly every obstacle faced by those advocating bicycle paths and lanes today. McCullough's text is enriched by more than one hundred historic images of cyclists (often attired in skirts and bonnets, suits and ties), country lanes, and city streets.
