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Author : Samuel Sidney McClure
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Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Wheelman written by Samuel Sidney McClure and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)
Download or read book Brooklyn Daily Eagle Almanac written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Duane Swierczynski
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312343781
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Wheelman written by Duane Swierczynski and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-11-14 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His money stolen and his battered carcass left for dead, getaway driver Lennon is on a mission to find out who is responsible--and to get back his loot. A dirty cop, the Russian and Italian mobs, the mayor's hired gun, and a musician maneuver for position as this novel twists and turns toward its conclusion.
Author : Juliet Macur
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062277243
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)
Download or read book Cycle of Lies written by Juliet Macur and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive account of Lance Armstrong's spectacular rise and fall. In June 2013, when Lance Armstrong fled his palatial home in Texas, downsizing in the face of multimillion-dollar lawsuits, Juliet Macur was there—talking to his girlfriend and children and listening to Armstrong's version of the truth. She was one of the few media members aside from Oprah Winfrey to be granted extended one-on-one access to the most famous pariah in sports. At the center of Cycle of Lies is Armstrong himself, revealed through face-to-face interviews. But this unfolding narrative is given depth and breadth by the firsthand accounts of more than one hundred witnesses, including family members whom Armstrong had long since turned his back on—the adoptive father who gave him the Armstrong name, a grandmother, an aunt. Perhaps most damning of all is the taped testimony of the late J.T. Neal, the most influential of Armstrong's many father figures, recorded in the final years of Neal's life as he lost his battle with cancer just as Armstrong gained fame for surviving the disease. In the end, it was Armstrong's former friends, those who had once occupied the precious space of his inner circle, who betrayed him. They were the ones who dealt Armstrong his fatal blow by breaking the code of silence that shielded the public from the grim truth about the sport of cycling—and the grim truth about its golden boy, Armstrong. Threading together the vivid and disparate voices of those with intimate knowledge of the private and public Armstrong, Macur weaves a comprehensive and unforgettably rich tapestry of one man's astonishing rise to global fame and fortune and his devastating fall from grace.
Author : Robert L. McCullough
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262552493
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)
Download or read book Old Wheelways written by Robert L. McCullough and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2024-06-11 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How American bicyclists shaped the landscape and left traces of their journeys for us in writing, illustrations, and photographs. In the later part of the nineteenth century, American bicyclists were explorers, cycling through both charted and uncharted territory. These wheelmen and wheelwomen became keen observers of suburban and rural landscapes, and left copious records of their journeys—in travel narratives, journalism, maps, photographs, illustrations. They were also instrumental in the construction of roads and paths (“wheelways”)—building them, funding them, and lobbying legislators for them. Their explorations shaped the landscape and the way we look at it, yet with few exceptions their writings have been largely overlooked by landscape scholars, and many of the paths cyclists cleared have disappeared. In Old Wheelways, Robert McCullough restores the pioneering cyclists of the nineteenth century to the history of American landscapes. McCullough recounts marathon cycling trips around the Northeast undertaken by hardy cyclists, who then describe their journeys in such magazines as The Wheelman Illustrated and Bicycling World; the work of illustrators (including Childe Hassam, before his fame as a painter); efforts by cyclists to build better rural roads and bicycle paths; and conflicts with park planners, including the famous Olmsted Firm, who often opposed separate paths for bicycles. Today's ubiquitous bicycle lanes owe their origins to nineteenth century versions, including New York City's “asphalt ribbons.” Long before there were “rails to trails,” there was a movement to adapt existing passageways—including aqueduct corridors, trolley rights-of-way, and canal towpaths—for bicycling. The campaigns for wheelways, McCullough points out, offer a prologue to nearly every obstacle faced by those advocating bicycle paths and lanes today. McCullough's text is enriched by more than one hundred historic images of cyclists (often attired in skirts and bonnets, suits and ties), country lanes, and city streets.
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Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.CK/5 ( download)
Download or read book Outing and the Wheelman written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jesse J. Gant
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0870206141
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)
Download or read book Wheel Fever written by Jesse J. Gant and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2013-09-27 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On rails-to-trails bike paths, city streets, and winding country roads, the bicycle seems ubiquitous in the Badger State. Yet there’s a complex and fascinating history behind the popularity of biking in Wisconsin—one that until now has never been told. Meticulously researched through periodicals and newspapers, Wheel Fever traces the story of Wisconsin’s first “bicycling boom,” from the velocipede craze of 1869 through the “wheel fever” of the 1890s. It was during this crucial period that the sport Wisconsinites know and adore first took shape. From the start it has been defined by a rich and often impassioned debate over who should be allowed to ride, where they could ride, and even what they could wear. Many early riders embraced the bicycle as a solution to the age-old problem of how to get from here to there in the quickest and easiest way possible. Yet for every supporter of the “poor man’s horse,” there were others who wanted to keep the rights and privileges of riding to an elite set. Women, the working class, and people of color were often left behind as middle- and upper-class white men benefitted from the “masculine” sport and all-male clubs and racing events began to shape the scene. Even as bikes became more affordable and accessible, a culture defined by inequality helped create bicycling in its own image, and these limitations continue to haunt the sport today. Wheel Fever is about the origins of bicycling in Wisconsin and why those origins still matter, but it is also about our continuing fascination with all things bicycle. From “boneshakers” to high-wheels, standard models to racing bikes, tandems to tricycles, the book is lushly illustrated with never-before-seen images of early cycling, and the people who rode them: bloomer girls, bicycle jockeys, young urbanites, and unionized workers. Laying the foundations for a much-beloved recreation, Wheel Fever challenges us to imagine anew the democratic possibilities that animated cycling’s early debates.
Author : Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.). Department of Parks
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Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.HZ/5 ( download)
Download or read book Annual Report of the Department of Parks of the City of Brooklyn for the Year ... written by Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.). Department of Parks and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)
Download or read book Cycle Car Age and Ignition, Carburetion, Lubrication written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Wheel and Cycling Trade Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
