Two wheels good : the history and mystery of the bicycle / Jody Rosen.
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780804141499
- ISBN: 0804141495
- Physical Description: xvii, 396 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Crown, [2022]
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Subject: | Bicycles > History. Cycling > History. |
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- 17 of 18 copies available at SPARK Libraries.
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- 0 current holds with 18 total copies.
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Albright Memorial Library | 629.227 ROSEN (Text) | 50686016175478 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Annie Halenbake Ross Library | 629.227 Ros (Text)
Memorial:
In remembrance of Anthony "Tony" Anastos by Ron and Abby Pete
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00155144 | ADULT Non-Fiction | Available | - |
Cambria County Library | 629.227 R813t (Text) | 85131001832436 | CACM Non-Fiction | Available | - |
Carbondale Public Library | 629.227 ROSEN (Text) | 50688010817121 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Dalton Community Library | 629.227 ROSEN (Text) | 50689010453479 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Emmaus Public Library | 629.227 ROSE (Text) | 36446002065897 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Indian Valley Public Library | 629.227 Rosen History (Text) | 39427103657714 | Nonfiction Room: Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Martin Library | Adults 629.22 ROS Science Technology (Text) | 33454005871009 | 2nd Floor | Available | - |
New Castle Public Library | 629.227 Rosen (Text)
Bookplate:
Presented to the New Castle Public Library Honoring Chuck Tanner, Manager, Pittsburgh Pirates, 1979 World Champions, by Friends and Fans.
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31902005467972 | NWCM Non-Fiction | Available | - |
New Oxford Library | 629.227 ROSEN (Text)
Endowment:
GFWC of Littlestown Named Endowment, 2022
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35740635843295 | Nonfiction | Checked Out | 04/17/2024 |