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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Rosen, Jody.     Subjects     Bicycles -- History.     Cycling -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Rosen, Jody.       by title:      Two wheels good : th...       by call number:      629.227209 R813t     Search the Web     Rosen, Jody.     Bicycles -- History.     Cycling -- History.       MARC Display

Two wheels good : the history and mystery of the bicycle / Jody Rosen. by Rosen, Jody. Crown, 2022. Call #: 629.227209 R813t Subjects Bicycles -- History.   Cycling -- History. ISBN:  9780804141499 (hc.) Alternate title:  2 wheels good : the history and mystery of the bicycle Edition:  1st ed. Description:  xvii, 396 p. : ill., facsimiles, photographs ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary:  "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. 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 [the book] 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.(...)"--From publisher. Holds:  1   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 629.227209 R813t Core Collection - Adult Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Nonfiction 629.227209 R813t Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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