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100	1		_aRosen, Jody,
245	1	0	_aTwo wheels good : _bthe history and mystery of the bicycle / _cJody Rosen.
246	3	0	_aHistory and mystery of the bicycle.
250			_aFirst edition.
260			_aNew York : _bCrown, _c[2022]
260			_c©2022.
300			_axvii, 396 pages : _billustrations ; _c25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [339]-381) and index.
505	0		_aVoyage to the moon -- Bicycle planet -- The bicycle window -- Dandy chargers -- Art velo -- Silent steed -- Bicycle mania : 1890s -- Balancing act -- Put some fun between your legs -- Winter -- Uphill -- Nowhere fast -- Cross county -- Beast of burden -- Personal history -- Graveyards -- Mass movement.
520			_a"The bicycle is a vestige of the Victorian era, seemingly at odds with our age of smartphones and ride-sharing apps and driverless cars. Yet we live on a bicycle planet. Across the world, more people travel by bicycle than any other form of transportation. Almost anyone can learn to ride a bike-and nearly everyone does. In Two Wheels Good, journalist and critic Jody Rosen reshapes our understanding of this ubiquitous machine, an ever-present force in humanity's life and dream life-and a flash point in culture wars-for more than two hundred years. Combining history, reportage, travelogue, and memoir, Rosen's book 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. Two Wheels Good examines the bicycle's past and peers into its future, challenging myths and clichés while uncovering cycling's connection to colonial conquest and the gentrification of cities. But the book is also a love letter: a reflection on the sensual and spiritual pleasures of bike riding and an ode to an engineering marvel-a wondrous vehicle whose passenger is also its engine."--publisher's website.
650		0	_aBicycles _xHistory.
650		0	_aCycling _xHistory.
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aRosen, Jody. _tTwo wheels good _bFirst edition. _dNew York : Crown, [2022] _z9780804141505 _w(DLC) 2021054102.
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