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Kod EAN: 9780099593591
Waga produktu: 0.335 kg
Realizacja zamówienia: 3 dni
Wysyłka od: 12.99 PLN
Wydawnictwo: vintage
A panoramic portrait of the wonderous vehicle whose passenger is also its engine.

A toy, a tool, a liberator, or complete nuisance: the bicycle has been many things to many people over the decades, yet it endures as the most popular form of transport in the world. How has such a simple machine achieved so much?

Combining history, travelogue and memoir, Jody Rosen reshapes our understanding of this ubiquitous vehicle from its invention in 1817 to its present-day renaissance as a 'green machine'. Readers meet unforgettable characters: women's suffragists who steered bikes to the barricades in the 1890s, a Bhutanese king who races mountain bikes in the Himalayas, astronauts who ride a floating bicycle in zero gravity.

By examining the bicycle's past and peering into its future, Two Wheels Good forms a joyful ode to an engineering marvel of global importance.

'Funny, precise, surprising' Adam Gopnik
'Love for two-wheeled transport runs through every sentence' Economist
'Wry, rich, deeply researched' Patrick Radden Keefe

Szczegóły produktu

  • Autor: 

    Rosen Jody

  • Rok wydania: 

    2023

  • Objętość: 

    396

  • Oprawa: 

    Miękka

  • Format: 

    13.0x20.0cm

  • Tematyka: 

    Literatura obcojęzyczna

  • ISBN: 

    9780099593591