Two Wheels In The Dust
Two Wheels In The Dust

Author: Anne Mustoe

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2011-08-31

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 0753547821

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India is no place for the faint-hearted cyclist. The streets are jammed with cars, busses, rickshaws, animals, fortune-tellers, barbers, beggars and people sleeping or cooking. Following the success of her two previous outings, A Bike Ride and Lone Traveller, adventuresome ex-headmistress Anne Mustoe donned the cycle helmet once more and set out on an exhilarating journey round the Indian subcontinent. Beginning in Kathmandu in Nepal and ending in the tranquil hill town of Kandy in Sri Lanka, Anne's amazing journey is told with keen observation and the relish of the open road.

Two Wheels Good
Two Wheels Good

Author: Jody Rosen

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2022-08-04

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 1448192250

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**SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2023** 'Full of delightful anecdotes and interviews and fascinating historical tales' Mail on Sunday 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

Living on Two Wheels - 2nd Edition
Living on Two Wheels - 2nd Edition

Author: Dennis Coello

Publisher: Ross Books

Published: 2010-11

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 089496061X

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Coello explains how the average family can live with no car. He begins by explaining why bikes are designed differently for different uses and detailing how to choose one, how to maintain it, and how to tour and travel by bike.

Two Wheels North
Two Wheels North

Author: Evelyn McDaniel Gibb

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13:

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A captivating account of a journey in 1909 that today we can only dream about--one that finds two boys on the road not only to Seattle, but also to manhood.

So This Is Love
So This Is Love

Author: Gilbert Reid

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2006-06-27

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13: 1466823364

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Adroitly capturing love and all its nuances, So This Is Love pulsates with underlying currents of violence, sex, passion, and the politics of desire. Tracing the globe, individuals find themselves caught in the entanglements of memory, forgetting, and the imminent future. In an overcrowded hospital in war-torn Bosnia, a Muslim soldier and a young Serbian woman---one crippled, the other blind---find solace in each other. In small-town Ontario, a father and daughter relive the summer when an ethereal girl entered their lives and a brutal assault changed everything. In an apartment peopled with an eclectic mix of bohemian expatriates, a man pursues a young suicidal waif at the height of the sexual revolution in 1970s Paris. So this is love. In sparkling, insightful prose, Gilbert Reid's provocative debut collection of short stories takes the reader on a journey through war zones, bohemian apartments, idyllic rural farms, and the dark streets of Rome. Madly romantic, subtly subversive, and utterly accomplished, So This Is Love is at times morose, at times perverse, at times beautiful, but always honest.