{"product_id":"two-wheels-good-jody-rosen-9780099593591","title":"Two Wheels Good","description":"\u003cp\u003eA panoramic portrait of the nineteenth-century invention that is transforming our twenty-first century world\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e**SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2023**\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Full of delightful anecdotes and interviews and fascinating historical tales' Mail on Sunday\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA panoramic portrait of the wonderous vehicle whose passenger is also its engine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA toy, a tool, a liberator, or complete nuisance- the bicycle has been many things to many people over the decades, yet it endures as the most popular form of transport in the world. How has such a simple machine achieved so much?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCombining history, travelogue and memoir, Jody Rosen reshapes our understanding of this ubiquitous vehicle from its invention in 1817 to its present-day renaissance as a 'green machine'. Readers meet unforgettable characters- women's suffragists who steered bikes to the barricades in the 1890s, a Bhutanese king who races mountain bikes in the Himalayas, astronauts who ride a floating bicycle in zero gravity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy examining the bicycle's past and peering into its future, Two Wheels Good forms a joyful ode to an engineering marvel of global importance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Funny, precise, surprising' Adam Gopnik\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Love for two-wheeled transport runs through every sentence' Economist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Wry, rich, deeply researched' Patrick Radden Keefe\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jody Rosen","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":44362446274803,"sku":"9780099593591","price":29.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/9780099593591.jpg?v=1705607186","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/two-wheels-good-jody-rosen-9780099593591","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}