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Two wheels good : the history and mystery of the bicycle / Jody Rosen.

Rosen, Jody, (author.).

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. 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.
Subject: Bicycles > History.
Cycling > History.

Available copies

  • 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)
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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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New Oxford Library 629.227 ROSEN (Text)
Endowment: GFWC of Littlestown Named Endowment, 2022
35740635843295 Nonfiction Checked Out 04/17/2024

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. 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"--

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