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Category : West Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Overlander
Author: Rupert GuinnessPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1925640116
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
A powerful memoir about an epic bike race across one of the most challenging landscapes in the world Rupert Guinness set out on the trip of a lifetime: to race across Australia in the inaugural Indian Pacific Wheel Race. This was no ordinary bike race. Unlike the Tour de France, which Guinness had made his name reporting on for decades, competitors rode completely unassisted from Fremantle in Western Australia to the Opera House in Sydney on the other side of the country - a gruelling distance of over 5000 kilometres that would not only test riders' physical endurance but their psychological resilience. Dubbed 'The Hunger Games on Wheels', there would be no help, just riders and their bikes crossing one of the most beautiful – and often most inhospitable – places on earth. Rupert’s mission was to test his own grit, physical and emotional, as he followed the trail of the pioneering men and women whose historic rides over the last two centuries unveiled a largely unknown interior. But when a terrible tragedy stopped everyone in their tracks, what he discovered was the extraordinary power of the human spirit. Rupert and his fellow competitors were forced to make some of the toughest decisions they had ever faced.
Author: Sarah M. Eden
Author: Yale College (1887- ). Class of 1903Power of the Pedal
Author: Rupert GuinnessPublisher: National Library of Australia
ISBN: 0642279225
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
In 'Power of the Pedal', read about cycling in Australia from the penny farthing to 21st-century commuters and Olympic stars. Bicycles changed our lives! They meant a new and faster way to get around and gave rise to ways of exploring, socialising and competing. In the nineteenth century cycling encouraged 'overlanders', adventurers who explored new routes through rugged terrain; cycling clubs that gave women a new kind of freedom to mix socially with men: and novel kinds of racing. In this book, cycling journalist Rupert Guinness reveals 200 years of the bike in Australian everyday life and the world of competition.
Wheeling Matilda
Author: Jim FitzpatrickPublisher:
ISBN: 9780987143716
Category : Cycling
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
Wheeling Matilda: The Story of Australian Cycling, sweeps across nearly 150 years of bicycle use in Australia. Set in a country which had the largest bicycle path network in the world in the 1890s and was the long distance cycling centre of the world for many years, this is an eye-opening history. Australia's soldiers were at the forefront of the Boer War, the first significant wartime use of the machine. During the international heyday of cycling, Australia held the richest bicycle race in the world, and is today a powerhouse of the racing scene. From Sydney to South Africa, from Melbourne to Madison Square Garden--and in places in between where you would never expect to even see a bicycle--Australians riders have been there.
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Author: West Virginia. Insurance Department
Author: Cycling
Author: Peter CoxPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315533677
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Cycling: A Sociology of Vélomobility explores cycling as a sociological phenomenon. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, it considers the interaction of materials, competencies and meanings that comprise a variety of cycling practices. What might appear at first to be self-evident actions are shown to be constructed through the interplay of numerous social and political forces. Using a theoretical framework from mobilities studies, its central themes respond to the question of what it is about cycling that provokes so much interest and passion, both positive and negative. Individual chapters consider how cycling has appeared as theme and illustration in social theory, as well as the legacies of these theorizations. The book expands on the image of cycling practices as the product of an assemblage of technology, rider and environment. Riding spaces as material technologies are found to be as important as the machinery of the cycle, and a distinction is made between routes and rides to help interpret aspects of journey-making. Ideas of both affordance and script are used to explore how elements interact in performance to create sensory and experiential scapes. Consideration is also given to the changing identities of cycling practices in historical and geographical perspective. The book adds to existing research by extending the theorization of cycling mobilities. It engages with both current and past debates on the place of cycling in mobility systems and the problems of researching, analyzing and communicating ephemeral mobile experiences.
