What Goes Around: A London Cycle Courier's Story - Couverture souple

Chappell, Emily

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1783350539 ISBN 13 : 9781783350537

Editeur : Guardian Faber Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

Emily Chappell never meant to be a cycle courier. She planned to earn her living using her mind rather than her legs. She thought it'd be a useful stopgap while searching for a 'real' job. Today, six years on, she's still pedalling. 'It's my most enduring love affair; the career that's shaped my life, made me what I am, and entirely derailed any hope of a normal existence.' As she flies through the streets of the capital, dancing with the traffic, Chappell records the pain and pleasure-both mental and physical-of life on wheels: the hurtling, dangerous missions; the ebb and flow of seasonal work; the moments of fear and freedom, anger and exhaustion; the camaraderie of the courier tribe and its idiosyncratic characters; the conflict and harmony between bicycle and road, body and mind. At the same time it is a hymn to London; its changing skyline, its chaos and interconnectedness: 'the unlikeliest street corners will have some tattered threads of memory fluttering from them like a flag...It's almost as if the memories have overflowed from my head and scattered themselves about the city. Some parts of my life I can recall simply by thinking of them; others I think I'd remember better if I went back to a certain part of London and plucked them up from the tree I'd hung them from, or retraced them from the park bench I'd scratched them on, or snatched them up as they blew around in circles in an alleyway like a discarded carrier bag'. This is a book about discovery and belonging, connection and memory, choosing life's uncharted course and the delicious sensation of just riding.

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À propos de l'auteur

Emily Chappell studied at Cambridge and SOAS, and since 2008 has worked as a cycle courier in London.
Emily's writing has featured in the Guardian and in 2012 she won Travel Blogger of the Year at the British Travel Press Awards, and a Jupiter's Traveller Award from the Ted Simon Foundation. She delivered her first lecture to the Royal Geographical Society in 2012.

She spent 2011 to 2013 cycling across Asia-from Wales to Japan-and in 2014 she cycled across Iceland. Emily has just completed the Transcontinental Race from Belgium to Istanbul.

@emilychappell / thatemilychappell.com

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Guardian Faber Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1783350539
• ISBN 13: 9781783350537
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible