Dimensions
129 x 198 x 20mm
Since the millennium, use of the bicycle in Britain has doubled -- and doubled again. Every day, more people take up cycling and thousands now cycle to work. Yet, cycling is more than merely a form of transport; it is a way of life, a philosophy. Companionable or solitary, competitive or amicable, cycling can, unlike anything else, reinvent familiar geography and offer us our surroundings in a very different way.
In her brilliant new book, Bella Bathurst explores the cycling phenomenon. A cyclist herself, she looks at what people ride and why, how the bicycle was born and what the future holds for it. Travelling across the globe -- to Europe, India, China and the United States -- she uncovers an array of weird and wonderful stories about the bicycle; an international cycling race for couriers held in a different city every year, Manhatten's Ghost Bike scheme, which remembers those cyclists who have been injured or killed on the city's roads, and the realities of life as a rickshaw cyclist in London's West End.
Utterly unique and completely refreshing, THE BICYCLE BOOK is as enjoyable as a truly great bike ride.
