The Cyclist's Manifesto: The Case for Riding on Two Wheels Instead of Four - Couverture souple

Hurst, Robert

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0762751282 ISBN 13 : 9780762751280

Editeur : Globe Pequot Press, 2009

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

"Author Robert Hurst delivers a vigorous forehead slap to America in this feisty manifesto for the age of 'Peak Oil."Praise for Robert Hurst's "The Art of Cycling: " "Robert Hurst succeeds in writing about urban cycling the way that Rachel Carson triumphed with "Silent Spring," the seminal work whose publication spawned Earth Day, the Environmental Protection Agency, consumer recycling, and how we look at the world." "This empowering cycling book should come in the glove box of every new car sold" -- Marla Streb, World Champion Downhill Mountain Bike Racer
"While it's hard to imagine a book about [urban] cycling could fill over 250 pages, let alone strive to be a near masterpiece, that's just what The Art of Urban Cycling: Lessons from the Street, and all-encompassing how-to book by veteran bicycling messenger Robert Hurst, has accomplished." "With a spot-on foreword written by Luna downhiller Marla Streb and a detailed index of footnotes and bibliography, Hurst has compiled a cerebral but hip manifesto for [urban] cyclists looking to coexist in a system that has left them to fend for their lives." --VeloNews, Journal of Competitive Cycling
"I would like to highly recommend the book "The Art of Urban Cycling: Lessons from the Street" by Robert Hurst.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Robert Hurst takes off his gloves to lay out the case in favor of the bicycle as today's superior mode of transport - and to voice a resounding call to action for people to use it. In an engaging narrative that takes us from the past to the present and into the future, the author visits a surprising variety of places and historical moments. Hurst argues that the West's aversion to bicycling for transportation is a unique historical - cultural absurdity based largely on false assumptions and bad information. Humorous but more than a little exasperated, "The Cyclist's Manifesto" paints a tantalizing picture of just what the effects of substantially increased bicycle usage might be - the health care savings would be astronomical, for example, and the ways that individuals and governments can go about wresting back control over their energy destiny.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Globe Pequot Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0762751282
• ISBN 13: 9780762751280
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 224