Need for the Bike (eBook)

Fournel Paul Fournel (Autor)

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2019
ProFile (Verlag)
978-1-78816-270-8 (ISBN)

Infos

A TRUE CLASSIC OF CYCLING LITERATURE'Nobody evokes the transformative joy of cycling the way Fournel does here ... magical' - Herbie Sykes"e;I ride to rest and to tire myself out; I ride to do myself good and to do myself harm"e; ... one of the many cycling paradoxes explored in this unique and delightful book. "e;I've never got over this miracle"e; Starting with the childhood joy of learning to ride a bike, Need for the Bike goes on to relate the agony of climbing, the angst of crashing, and all the other universal moments and feelings which all cyclists will recognise. "e;To get on a bike is to take possession of the landscape"e; The sounds, smells, pains and joys of riding with friends or alone, finding things on the road; getting lost, "e;re-reading"e; familiar routes; Paul Fournel's classic comes as close as any book has to an encapsulation of why we all need the bike ...

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With a poet's precision and compassion, he has got to the heart of the same compulsion I have shared, to jump on a bike, and just go cycling off ...

This classic collection is as great a book as has ever been written about cycling. Fournel's witty, insightful and affectionate prose has the kind of class that mesmerises the reader, whether they be a lover of bikes or simply an admirer of thoroughbred writing. Watching this French poet and author shifting effortlessly through the gears is like watching Anquetil pedal - and thanks to this fluent translation, readers in English can finally enjoy the lightness and precision of these essays. By several bike lengths, the cycling publication of the year.

A beautiful and lucid evocation of all that is best - and worst - about riding a bicycle, by a writer for whom cycling and life are simply inseparable.

Nobody - not anybody - evokes the transformative joy of cycling the way Fournel does here ... magical

Captures cycling's joy and pain with matchless wit and elegance

If you don't know Fournel, then you're missing out ...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.7.2019
• Übersetzer: Stoekl Alan Stoekl, Read Claire Read
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Fahrrad
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Motor- / Rad- / Flugsport
• Schlagworte: bicyle • Cycling • France • Sport • Tour de France
• ISBN-10: 1-78816-270-6 / 1788162706
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78816-270-8 / 9781788162708