Where There's A Will: Hope, Grief and Endurance in a Cycle Race Across a Continent
Autor Emily Chappellen Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 noi 2020
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781788161527
ISBN-10: 1788161521
Pagini: 304
Ilustrații: Integrated b&w plus 8pp plate section
Dimensiuni: 128 x 198 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Ediția:Main
Editura: Profile
Colecția Pursuit Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1788161521
Pagini: 304
Ilustrații: Integrated b&w plus 8pp plate section
Dimensiuni: 128 x 198 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Ediția:Main
Editura: Profile
Colecția Pursuit Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Emily Chappell worked as a cycle courier in London for many years, telling her story in What Goes Around. Since then she has explored the world on her bike and committed to supporting others to do the same, as a founder of The Adventure Syndicate
Recenzii
Emily Chappell is one of the most inspiring athletes on the planet. Humble, tender and alive with unimaginable grit, this book makes us see just how much is possible.
Her descriptions of what goes on in a rider's head in the middle of a race are on a par with Tim Krabbé. Lyrical writing and compelling reading - a real treat.
A first class cyclist and an even better writer
For What Goes Around:Chappell is a marvellous writer, and the book reads rather like a bike ride with its succession of turns and unexpected discoveries ... The joy of cycling is at its heart, however; if any book could make you consider chucking in your desk job and throwing on some Lycra, this could be it.
Fascinating
This memoir of a cycle courier and her love affair with the capital delivers the goods in style...Chappell is a gifted storyteller. She deftly weaves in a plotted history of couriering, from the explosion of the industry in the late 1980s...through to its gentle decline at the hand of email attachments, file sharing and electronic signatures...In and out of all this, fine words flow on the simple but profound pleasure of floating through the city on a bicycle - of the "strange sense of stillness", and "the energy of sheer motion itself.
Her descriptions of what goes on in a rider's head in the middle of a race are on a par with Tim Krabbé. Lyrical writing and compelling reading - a real treat.
A first class cyclist and an even better writer
For What Goes Around:Chappell is a marvellous writer, and the book reads rather like a bike ride with its succession of turns and unexpected discoveries ... The joy of cycling is at its heart, however; if any book could make you consider chucking in your desk job and throwing on some Lycra, this could be it.
Fascinating
This memoir of a cycle courier and her love affair with the capital delivers the goods in style...Chappell is a gifted storyteller. She deftly weaves in a plotted history of couriering, from the explosion of the industry in the late 1980s...through to its gentle decline at the hand of email attachments, file sharing and electronic signatures...In and out of all this, fine words flow on the simple but profound pleasure of floating through the city on a bicycle - of the "strange sense of stillness", and "the energy of sheer motion itself.