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This is the same amazing story as the current version, but with an updated cover and foreword. If you'd like to read Barbara Savage's two-year around the world bicycle trip now, you can order the current version here.
Miles from Nowhere is the story of Barbara and Larry Savage's sometimes dangerous, often zany, but ultimately rewarding 23,000-mile bicycle odyssey, which took them through 25 countries in two years. Along the way, these near-neophyte...
Miles from Nowhere is the story of Barbara and Larry Savage's sometimes dangerous, often zany, but ultimately rewarding 23,000-mile bicycle odyssey, which took them through 25 countries in two years. Along the way, these near-neophyte...
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The comical Wheels of Chance was written in 1896 at the height of the golden age of the bicycle, when practical and affordable bicycles led to profound social shifts in England. Suddenly people of modest means could travel greater distances for work or even for pleasure, without the limitations of rail schedules, weakening England's rigid class structure and strengthening the movement towards the liberation of women. In the novel, the poorly-paid
...7) Bicycling magazine's guide to bike touring: everything you need to know to travel anywhere on a bike
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Rodale
Pub. Date
[2005]
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English
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Stewart, Tabori & Chang
Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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A beautiful guide to fifty of the world's best places to ride a bicycle, as chosen by expert cyclists who have been there.
Fifty Places to Bike Before You Die is the ninth addition to the bestselling Fifty Places series by Chris Santella. Biking has grown increasingly popular in recent years, as both a leisure and an extreme exercise activity, and Santella covers trips for cyclists of every level. Fifty Places to Bike covers environments as varied...
16) Bicycle diaries
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Viking
Pub. Date
2009.
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English
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Since the early 1980s, renowned musician and visual artist David Byrne has been riding a bike as his principal means of transportation in New York City. Two decades ago, he discovered folding bikes and started taking them with him when traveling around the world. Byrne's choice was initially made out of convenience rather than political motivation, but the more cities he saw from his bicycle, the more he became hooked on this mode of transport and...
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Counterpoint
Pub. Date
[2002]
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English
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An account of the author's 1,500-mile journey on bicycle from the port of Cadiz to the Arctic Circle documents his adventures through southern Spain, Bordeaux, Versailles, Wordsworth's Lake District, precipitious Scottish highlands, and a Druid temple.
