Old Wheelways Audiolivro Por Robert L. McCullough capa

Old Wheelways

Traces of Bicycle History on the Land

Amostra

Assine e ganhe 30% de desconto neste título

R$ 19,90 /mês

Teste grátis por 30 dias
R$ 19,90/mês após o teste gratuito de 30 dias. Cancele a qualquer momento.
Curta mais de 100.000 títulos de forma ilimitada.
Ouça quando e onde quiser, mesmo sem conexão
Sem compromisso. Cancele grátis a qualquer momento.

Old Wheelways

De: Robert L. McCullough
Narrado por: Gary D. MacFadden
Teste grátis por 30 dias

R$ 19,90/mês após o teste gratuito de 30 dias. Cancele a qualquer momento.

Compre agora por R$ 64,99

Compre agora por R$ 64,99

Confirmar a compra
Pagar usando o cartão terminado em
Ao confirmar sua compra, você concorda com as Condições de Uso da Audible e a Política de Privacidade da Amazon. Impostos, quando aplicável. PRECISA SER AJUSTADO
Cancelar

Sobre este áudio

In the later part of the 19th century, American bicyclists were explorers, cycling through both charted and uncharted territory. These wheelmen and wheelwomen became keen observers of suburban and rural landscapes, and left copious records of their journeys - in travel narratives, journalism, maps, photographs, illustrations. They were also instrumental in the construction of roads and paths ("wheelways") - building them, funding them, and lobbying legislators for them. Their explorations shaped the landscape and the way we look at it, yet with few exceptions their writings have been largely overlooked by landscape scholars, and many of the paths cyclists cleared have disappeared. In Old Wheelways, Robert McCullough restores the pioneering cyclists of the 19th century to the history of American landscapes.

Today's ubiquitous bicycle lanes owe their origins to 19th-century versions. The campaigns for wheelways, McCullough points out, offer a prologue to nearly every obstacle faced by those advocating bicycle paths and lanes today.

The book is published by MIT Press.

©2015 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (P)2017 Redwood Audiobooks
Américas Ciências e Engenharia

Resumo da Crítica

"A highly readable, scholarly book about 'landseers' in America.. This book greatly adds to our understanding of the role of bicycles in the creation of America's modern society." (Gary W. Sanderson, editor, The Wheelmen Magazine)
"Anyone who's interested in the history of cycling, or the history of infrastructure and landscape, will find the images McCullough has collected fascinating." ( Slate)
"Here scorches a significant book." (John R. Stilgoe, Harvard University)

O que os ouvintes dizem sobre Old Wheelways

Nota média dos ouvintes. Apenas ouvintes que tiverem escutado o título podem escrever avaliações.

Avaliações - Selecione as abas abaixo para mudar a fonte das avaliações.