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Community => Muppets Threads! (And Anything Else) => Topic started by: rualexander on April 03, 2013, 07:45:28 PM
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Not sure if this emagazine has been mentioned on the forum before but Issue 2 is now available, costs ?1.53 or $2.31, for Kindle, lots of good reading inside. Issue 1 is also still available.
http://www.bicyclereader.com/2013/03/25/number-2-spring-2013/
Also available for other ereaders, e.g. kobo, http://www.kobobooks.com/search/search.html?q=%22Jack+Thurston%22&t=none&f=author&p=1&s=none&g=both
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Nicely found and posted, Rual; thanks!
From the Amazon.com description ( http://www.amazon.com/The-Bicycle-Reader-Number-ebook/dp/B00BWBA9XY/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1364231477&sr=8-2&keywords=bicycle+reader )......an occasional collection (around twice a year) of brilliant article and essay-length writing about cycling.
In this issue are eleven articles written between 1894 and 2013. Some are quick reads, others demand a little more time and concentration. From the 1890s, the decade of the second great bicycle boom, John Foster Fraser’s account of an epic crossing of the Caucasus on his round-the-world journey is a masterpiece of deadpan understatement. More than a century later, Britain is again falling in love with the bicycle, and Patrick Field offers his prescription for harmonious two-wheeled living in the twenty-first century, arguing that cycling not only makes us happier and healthier people, it makes us better citizens....The contributors share an appreciation of the potential of the humble bicycle to improve everyday lives.
Best,
Dan.