In the City of Bikes: The Story of the Amsterdam Cyclist Paperback - 2013
by Pete Jordan
Jordan, author of the wildly popular "Dishwasher: One Man's Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States," is back with a memoir that tells the story of his love affair with Amsterdam, the city of bikes, all the while unfolding an unknown history of the city's cycling.
From the rear cover
When Pete Jordan arrives in Amsterdam to study how to make America's cities more bicycle-friendly, he immediately falls in love with the city that already lives life on two wheels. His new bride, Amy Joy, joins Pete, and despite their financial hardships and instability, she eventually finds her own new calling as a bicycle mechanic as Pete discovers the untold history of cycling in Amsterdam.
From its beginnings as an elitis t pastime in the 1890s to the street-consuming craze of the 1920s, from the bicycle's role in a citywide resistance to the Nazi occupation to the White Bikes of the 1960s and the bike fishermen of today, Jordan chronicles the evolution of Amsterdam's cycling.
Part personal memoir, part history of cycling, part fascinating street-level tour of Amsterdam, In the City of Bikes is the story of a man who loves bikes--in a city that loves bikes.
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- Title In the City of Bikes: The Story of the Amsterdam Cyclist
- Author Pete Jordan
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 448
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, New York
- Date 2013-04-16
- Features Bibliography, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780061995200 / 0061995207
- Weight 0.72 lbs (0.33 kg)
- Dimensions 8.01 x 5.31 x 1.06 in (20.35 x 13.49 x 2.69 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Amsterdam (Netherlands) - Description and, Cycling - Netherlands - Amsterdam
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012032105
- Dewey Decimal Code 796.609
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Citations
- Booklist, 03/15/2013, Page 40
- Kirkus Reviews, 02/01/2013, Page 0
- New York Times Book Review, 06/02/2013, Page 25
- Publishers Weekly, 01/14/2013, Page 48
- Shelf Awareness, 05/03/2013, Page 0
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