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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Birchmore, Fred Agnew (1911-2012)
Titre(s) : Around the world on a bicycle [Texte imprimé] / Fred A. Birchmore ; with a new foreword by David V. Herlihy
Publication : Athens, Georgia : University of Georgia Press, copyright 2020
Description matérielle : xxiv, 356 pages, 72 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Note(s) : "This classic, once hard-to-find travelogue recalls one of the very first around-the-world
bicycle treks. Filled with rarely matched feats of endurance and determination, Around
the World on a Bicycle tells of a young cyclist's ever-changing and maturing worldview
as he ventures through forty countries on the eve of World War II. It is an exuberant,
youthful account, harking back to a time when the exploits of Richard Byrd, Amelia
Earhart, and other adventurers stirred the popular imagination. In 1935 Fred A. Birchmore
left the small American town of Athens, Georgia, to continue his college studies in
Europe. In his spare time, Birchmore toured the continent on a one-speed bike he called
Bucephalus (after the name of Alexander the Great's horse). A born wanderer, Birchmore
broadened his travels to include the British Isles and even the Mediterranean. After
a lengthy, unplanned detour in Egypt, Birchmore put his studies on hold, pointed Bucephalus
eastward, and just kept going. From desert valleys to frozen peaks, from palace promenades
to muddy jungle trails, Birchmore saw it all on his eighteen-month, twenty-five-thousand-mile
odyssey. Some of the people he encountered had never seen a bike-or, for that matter,
an Anglo-European. As a good travel experience should, Birchmore's trip changed his
outlook on strangers. Always daring, outgoing, and energetic, he now saw an innate
goodness in people. In between bone-breaking spills, wild animal attacks, and privation
of all kinds, Birchmore learned that he had little to fear from human encounters.
That he traveled through a world on the brink of global war makes this lesson even
more remarkable-and timeless"
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Herlihy, David V. (1958-....). Préfacier
Sujet(s) : Birchmore, Fred Agnew (1911-2012) -- Voyages
Voyages autour du monde -- 20e siècle
Cyclotourisme
Indice(s) Dewey :
910.41 (23e éd.) = Voyages autour du monde
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780820357287. - ISBN 0820357286. - ISBN 9780820357294 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb465612366
Notice n° :
FRBNF46561236
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