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This Breathtaking World: Around the World by Bicycle 1997 - 1999

Author : Tim Doherty
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1445221500
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (452 download)

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Download or read book This Breathtaking World: Around the World by Bicycle 1997 - 1999 written by Tim Doherty and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-11-21 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1997, Tim Doherty set off alone on a daunting round-the-world cycle tour, which turned out to be even more awe-inspiring than he could have hoped. For this book, he has taken the most fascinating and humorous experiences from his diaries and woven them together into a collection of true short-stories. With many beautiful photographs, sketches and maps, â€œThis Breathtaking Worldâ€ is a vivid and very personal account of life on the road. The title has a double-meaning, as the author is a chronic asthma sufferer. Tim encountered many problems, but the varied cultures and fantastic scenery along the way were his daily rewards. What remains with him most, however, is his impression of the people in each of the countries he cycled across; their remarkable generosity and hospitality. Tim completed his tour successfully, finishing up in his home town of Sheffield, England, more than two years after heâ€™d cycled off from there, having pedalled a total of 21,688 miles.

Around the World on a Bicycle

Author : Thomas Stevens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Around the World on a Bicycle written by Thomas Stevens and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Round And Through the World by Bicycle: The Summary 2014—2016, 53772 km by bicycles. From Russia

Author : Egor Kovalchuk
Publisher : Litres
ISBN 13 : 5045236296
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (452 download)

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Book Synopsis Round And Through the World by Bicycle: The Summary 2014—2016, 53772 km by bicycles. From Russia by : Egor Kovalchuk

Download or read book Round And Through the World by Bicycle: The Summary 2014—2016, 53772 km by bicycles. From Russia written by Egor Kovalchuk and published by Litres. This book was released on 2023-01-18 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Round And Through the World by Bicycle: The Summary 15th June 2014 – 2nd August 2016 53,772 km (33,420 miles).Starting and finishing point: the city of Tomsk, Russia.

Around the World on a Bicycle

Author : Fred A. Birchmore
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820357286
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Book Synopsis Around the World on a Bicycle by : Fred A. Birchmore

Download or read book Around the World on a Bicycle written by Fred A. Birchmore and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic, once hard-to-find travelogue recalls one of the very first around-the-world bicycle treks. Filled with rarely matched feats of endurance and determination, Around the World on a Bicycle tells of a young cyclist's ever-changing and maturing worldview as he ventures through forty countries on the eve of World War II. It is an exuberant, youthful account, harking back to a time when the exploits of Richard Byrd, Amelia Earhart, and other adventurers stirred the popular imagination. In 1935 Fred A. Birchmore left the small American town of Athens, Georgia, to continue his college studies in Europe. In his spare time, Birchmore toured the continent on a one-speed bike he called Bucephalus (after the name of Alexander the Great's horse). A born wanderer, Birchmore broadened his travels to include the British Isles and even the Mediterranean. After a lengthy, unplanned detour in Egypt, Birchmore put his studies on hold, pointed Bucephalus eastward, and just kept going. From desert valleys to frozen peaks, from palace promenades to muddy jungle trails, Birchmore saw it all on his eighteen-month, twenty-five-thousand-mile odyssey. Some of the people he encountered had never seen a bike-or, for that matter, an Anglo-European. As a good travel experience should, Birchmore's trip changed his outlook on strangers. Always daring, outgoing, and energetic, he now saw an innate goodness in people. In between bone-breaking spills, wild animal attacks, and privation of all kinds, Birchmore learned that he had little to fear from human encounters. That he traveled through a world on the brink of global war makes this lesson even more remarkable-and timeless.

Round the world on a wheel

Author : John Foster Fraser
Publisher : Рипол Классик
ISBN 13 : 587913380X
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (791 download)

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Book Synopsis Round the world on a wheel by : John Foster Fraser

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:

Selections From Modern English Prose

Author : Panda
Publisher : Universities Press
ISBN 13 : 9788173710261
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Selections From Modern English Prose written by Panda and published by Universities Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays has been prepared for students at the tertiary and undergraduate levels. The contents have been chosen in a way that they represent contemporary thoughts on different aspects of human endeavour for progress and perfection and include the works of writers such as Haldane, Russell, Tagore, Gandhi, Leacock and Chesterton.

With Cyclists Around the World

Author : Adi B. Hakim
Publisher : Roli Books Private Limited
ISBN 13 : 9351940977
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Book Synopsis With Cyclists Around the World by : Adi B. Hakim

Download or read book With Cyclists Around the World written by Adi B. Hakim and published by Roli Books Private Limited. This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travelling 44,000 miles, at times in 140'F heat - for days without food, at times without water, at times in pirate-infested territories, at times in swamp-lands - they cycled through dense jungles and notched up many 'firsts' while pedalling round the globe. They were the first to cycle the world - six young boys from Bombay Weightlifting Club, who started this journey of adventure on 15 October 1923. Crossing the deserts of Persia, Mesopotamia, Syria and Sinai, they became the first globetrotters to cover the most arduous journey of their lives in four years and five months. A must-read story of adventure and endurance.

Peddling Bicycles to America

Author : Bruce D. Epperson
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 078645623X
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Book Synopsis Peddling Bicycles to America by : Bruce D. Epperson

Download or read book Peddling Bicycles to America written by Bruce D. Epperson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This economic and technical history of the early American bicycle industry focuses on the crucial period from 1876 to the beginning of World War I. It looks particularly at the life and career of the industry's most significant personality during this era, Albert Augustus Pope. After becoming enamored with English high-wheeled bicycles during a visit to the Philadelphia World's Fair in 1876, Pope soon started paying Hartford, Connecticut's Weed Sewing Machine Company to make his own brand of high-wheeler, the "Columbia," the first to be manufactured in America in significant numbers. A decade later, Pope bought out that company, and ten years after that, Hartford's Park River was lined with five of Pope's factories. This book tells the story of the Pope Manufacturing Company's meteoric rise and fall and the growth of an industry around it.

The Two-Wheeled World of George B. Thayer

Author : Kevin J. Hayes
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803285213
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book The Two-Wheeled World of George B. Thayer written by Kevin J. Hayes and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cyclotourism has recently risen to prominence with growing national media coverage and thousands of participants taking to America's roadways on two wheels and under their own pedal power. But the concept is not new. More than a century ago, George B. Thayer took his own first "century," or one-hundred-mile bicycle ride. The Two-Wheeled World of George B. Thayer brings to life the experience of late nineteenth-century cycling through the heartfelt story of this important cycling pioneer. In 1886, just two years after his first century, Thayer rode his high wheeler across the United States, traveling from his home in Connecticut to California and back. Thayer took an indirect route without any intent to set speed records, but his trip was full of adventure nonetheless. Thayer loved going downhill, his legs over the handlebars, risking life and limb atop the large wheel on often rough and muddy roads. With aplomb and humor, he dealt with the countless other hazards he encountered, including dogs, mule teams, and wild hogs. Even bad weather and poor sleeping conditions could not keep Thayer down. After his epic tour across the United States, Thayer had the urge to cycle abroad and eventually toured England, Germany, Belgium, and Canada on his bike. His later travels were in part aided by his hometown of Hartford, Connecticut, which was the epicenter of American bicycle manufacturing in the late 1890s. In addition to telling Thayer's cycling story, Kevin J. Hayes brings to life the culture of cycling and its rise at the end of the nineteenth century, when bikes became more affordable and the nation's riding craze took off.

Around The World On Two Wheels

Author : Peter Zheutlin
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
ISBN 13 : 0806531711
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Around The World On Two Wheels written by Peter Zheutlin and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 294 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.

The Self-Propelled Voyager

Author : Duncan R. Jamieson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442253711
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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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.

Literature of Travel and Exploration: A to F

Author : Jennifer Speake
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9781579584252
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (842 download)

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Download or read book Literature of Travel and Exploration: A to F written by Jennifer Speake and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2003 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.

Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle

Author : Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 934 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle written by Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 934 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Cycle

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Cycle written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bicycles

Author : Chris Oxlade
Publisher : Capstone Classroom
ISBN 13 : 9781432902070
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Bicycles written by Chris Oxlade and published by Capstone Classroom. This book was released on 2007-08-04 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the early development of bicycles, different kinds of bikes, and how they are used.

The Sketch

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book The Sketch written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Claiming the Bicycle

Author : Sarah Hallenbeck
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809334445
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Claiming the Bicycle written by Sarah Hallenbeck and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers how American women encouraged one another to adopt a new technology--the bicycle--adapt it to their own purposes, and use it to transform cultural assumptions about femininity and gender difference. It also considers the role of women's rhetorical agency in the transformation of bicycle culture and the bicycle itself.