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Synopsis
The Fever Pitch of cycling. A social and cultural history of cycling in post war Europe seen through the eyes of a veteran racing cyclist.
Written with great literary and historical relish, One More Kilometre will examine the spread of cycling’s popularity, how it developed into a sport and how the bicycle has changed people’s lives – all viewed through the eyes of a seasoned fifty-six-year-old racing cyclist/art crtic who keeps eleven racing cycles in his garden shed and who never cycles less than 10,000 miles a year.
The book will start with the 1950s, regarded as the golden age of cycling, and when the author, ‘an unhappy communist child’, first discovered cycling and its emancipating powers. Progressing through four decades of cycling social history, the author will examine cycling as a Continental phenomenon, the rise and fall of the Tour de France; the lives of the great ‘trackmen’; cycling in its domestic form, cycling for fun, the ever-popular British cycling clubs – some of which are over one hundred years old and are home to many fellow eccentrics, fanatics and old-timers, like the author’s friend, ‘the Yorkshire junior road race champion of 1954, now living in a caravan, crippled and penniless with his much younger companion a taxidermist – beautiful and cruel’.
The book will be a lovely blend of personal anecdote, serious history and informed obsession, combining gentle humour, personal reminiscence and good history.
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About the Author
Tim Hilton has been an art critic on the Guardian and the Independent on Sunday and has written art history books on Pre-Raphaelitism and Picasso among others. He has been an avid cyclist for over forty years and cycles at least 10,000 miles a year.
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- PublisherHarperCollins
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0002571943
- ISBN 13 9780002571944
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages416
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