An American Cycling Odyssey, 1887
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Word Count
50,000 words, Guess
Page Count
200 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7905067M
- ISBN-139780803224087
- ISBN-100803224087
- OCLC Control Number48834831
- Library of Congress Control Number2002017964
and 2 more
- LibraryThing413378
- Goodreads782465
Classifications
- LCCGV1051.N43 H39 2002
Description
"In 1887 a twenty-one-year-old newspaperman named George Nellis (1865-1948) rode a bicycle from Herkimer, New York, to San Francisco in seventy-two days, surpassing the transcontinental bicycle record by several weeks. He averaged fifty miles a day pedalling a fifty-two-inch, high-wheeled Columbia Expert "ordinary" bicycle with a tubular steel frame and hard rubber tires, and he lost twenty-three pounds in the process." "Drawing on Nellis's letters and media coverage of the trip, Kevin J. Hayes recreates in compelling detail this amazing trip and the many ordinary and extraordinary faces of late-nineteenth-century America that were once revealed to a young bicyclist."--BOOK JACKET.
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