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\n A panoramic revisionist portrait of the nineteenth-century invention that is transforming the twenty-first-century world
\u201cExcellent . . . calls to mind Bill Bryson, John McPhee, Rebecca Solnit.\u201d\u2014The New York Times Book Review (Editors\u2019 Choice)
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker
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\u2014and 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\u2019s life and dream life\u2014and a flash point in culture wars\u2014for more than two hundred years. Combining history, reportage, travelogue, and memoir, Rosen\u2019s book sweeps across centuries and around the globe, unfolding the bicycle\u2019s saga from its invention in 1817 to its present-day renaissance as a \u201cgreen machine,\u201d 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\u2019s fastest-growing megacity, astronauts who ride a floating bicycle in zero gravity aboard the International Space Station.
Two Wheels Good examines the bicycle\u2019s past and peers into its future, challenging myths and clich\u00e9s while uncovering cycling\u2019s 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\u2014a wondrous vehicle whose passenger is also its engine.
Publisher \u200f : \u200e Crown
Publication date \u200f : \u200e June 13, 2023
Edition \u200f : \u200e Reprint
Language \u200f : \u200e English
Print length \u200f : \u200e 416 pages
ISBN-10 \u200f : \u200e 0804141517
ISBN-13 \u200f : \u200e 978-0804141512
Item Weight \u200f : \u200e 2.31 pounds
Dimensions \u200f : \u200e 5.2 x 0.92 x 8 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #597,325 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #398 in History of Civilization & Culture #603 in Popular Culture in Social Sciences #4,676 in Sociology Reference
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