- Publisher: Arcadia
- Year: 2016
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 272pp
- Illustrated: Yes
- Dimensions: 195x128mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.3kg
- ISBN: 9781910050767
- Product code: 514593
Messengers
City Tales from a London Bicycle Courier
Julian Sayarer New Paperback Illustrated
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After a six-month journey, cycling around the world, Julian Sayarer returned to London and started working as a bicycle courier, ‘making deliveries that don’t mean anything’, although one of them was flowers for an incoming prime minister. His stories of cycling the city streets reveal a community of riders and give a kerb-side perspective on everyday life in London.
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AUTHOR OF INTERSTATE, STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016
"Julian's tales of weaving through the streets of London on two wheels bring to life the gig economy, showing how things have changed in the modern workforce but have also stayed the same. Messengers gives the reader insights on what goes on behind the grand lobbies of the UK's banks and large companies, to see the people who really make business work" Financial Times
Messengers sees Julian Sayarer return to work as a London bicycle courier, after six months cycling around the world. From saddle and kerbside, his stories of delivering flowers to politicians, and administration notices to banks toppled by the financial crisis, make for a social history of a less seen city, written from the perspective of someone stuck in one of London's most insecure and poorly paid jobs.
Underneath the deliveries, we meet London's bicycle messengers, a family drawn from jaded graduates, jailbirds and recovering drug addicts. The riders all share their brushes with the law, struggles on the breadline and compete together in alleycat races, forming an unlikely but tender community upon the streets.
With a bicycle the one constant that seems to make sense of everything else, Messengers is a two-wheeled portrait of everyday life in a modern city at the start of the twenty-first century.
"Julian's tales of weaving through the streets of London on two wheels bring to life the gig economy, showing how things have changed in the modern workforce but have also stayed the same. Messengers gives the reader insights on what goes on behind the grand lobbies of the UK's banks and large companies, to see the people who really make business work" Financial Times
Messengers sees Julian Sayarer return to work as a London bicycle courier, after six months cycling around the world. From saddle and kerbside, his stories of delivering flowers to politicians, and administration notices to banks toppled by the financial crisis, make for a social history of a less seen city, written from the perspective of someone stuck in one of London's most insecure and poorly paid jobs.
Underneath the deliveries, we meet London's bicycle messengers, a family drawn from jaded graduates, jailbirds and recovering drug addicts. The riders all share their brushes with the law, struggles on the breadline and compete together in alleycat races, forming an unlikely but tender community upon the streets.
With a bicycle the one constant that seems to make sense of everything else, Messengers is a two-wheeled portrait of everyday life in a modern city at the start of the twenty-first century.
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After a six-month journey, cycling around the world, Julian Sayarer returned to London and started working as a bicycle courier, ‘making deliveries that don’t mean anything’, although one of them was flowers for an incoming prime minister. His stories of cycling the city streets reveal a community of riders and give a kerb-side perspective on everyday life in London.
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