- Publisher: ACC
- Year: 2020
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 96pp
- Illustrated: Yes
- Dimensions: 196x134mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.3kg
- ISBN: 9781788840941
- Product code: 530666
The Bicycle
A Miscellany on Two Wheels
Peter Ashley New Hardback Illustrated
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Evoking a bygone era, Peter Ashley’s nostalgic series comprises three pictorial miscellanies. Through memorabilia, posters and photographs each title celebrates a time when travel was slower and ‘a particular if unpredictable pleasure’. The images in this volume make clear the bicycle’s varied role in history and include a Boer War recruitment poster for the South Midland Divisional Cyclist Company, Harold Briercliffe’s Cycling Touring Guides, and the models used for deliveries.
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As the world speeds up, as technology takes over, it is worth
remembering how we used to live. This three-book series is a nostalgic
hymn to an era when life was slower: a meandering ramble through the
British countryside by bicycle, automobile and train.
Squeeze the brakes, sit back and coast downhill with this irreverent collection of cycling memorabilia. The Bicycle
is packed with pictures, fun facts, and light-hearted commentary,
gathering photographs of vintage bikes, John Bull puncture repair kits,
and misspelled signs rejecting the rights of 'Bycicles' to be locked to
railings. Crossing the country from Cumbria to Cambridge, this quaint,
pocket-sized manual is a compendium of all things two-wheeled.
remembering how we used to live. This three-book series is a nostalgic
hymn to an era when life was slower: a meandering ramble through the
British countryside by bicycle, automobile and train.
Squeeze the brakes, sit back and coast downhill with this irreverent collection of cycling memorabilia. The Bicycle
is packed with pictures, fun facts, and light-hearted commentary,
gathering photographs of vintage bikes, John Bull puncture repair kits,
and misspelled signs rejecting the rights of 'Bycicles' to be locked to
railings. Crossing the country from Cumbria to Cambridge, this quaint,
pocket-sized manual is a compendium of all things two-wheeled.
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Evoking a bygone era, Peter Ashley’s nostalgic series comprises three pictorial miscellanies. Through memorabilia, posters and photographs each title celebrates a time when travel was slower and ‘a particular if unpredictable pleasure’. The images in this volume make clear the bicycle’s varied role in history and include a Boer War recruitment poster for the South Midland Divisional Cyclist Company, Harold Briercliffe’s Cycling Touring Guides, and the models used for deliveries.
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