{"product_id":"two-wheels-good-jody-rosen","title":"Two Wheels Good: Jody Rosen","description":"\u003cp\u003eA panoramic portrait of the nineteenth-century invention that is transforming our twenty-first century world SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2023** 'Full of delightful anecdotes and interviews and fascinating historical tales'. A panoramic portrait of the wonderous vehicle whose passenger is also its engine. A 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? Combining 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. By examining the bicycle's past and peering into its future, forms a joyful ode to an engineering marvel of global importance.\u003cbr\u003e'Funny, precise, surprising' Adam Gopnik 'Love for two-wheeled transport runs through every sentence'\u003cbr\u003e'Wry, rich, deeply researched' Patrick Radden Keefe\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43572209254436,"sku":"9780099593591","price":34.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/2253\/5460\/files\/9780099593591.jpg?v=1771675963","url":"https:\/\/whimsyandwonder.co.nz\/products\/two-wheels-good-jody-rosen","provider":"Whimsy \u0026 Wonder","version":"1.0","type":"link"}