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In 1884, Thomas Stevens left San Francisco on a Columbia high-wheeler with the outrageous goal of becoming the first man to ride a bicycle across the United States. When he reached Boston, he decided to continue around the world, and soon sailed to London for the ride across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. The high-wheeler was heavy and cumbersome, his supplies were limited to socks, a spare shirt, and a slicker that doubled as tent and bedroll, and much of the country he traversed was wild. Yet he persevered, recording his colorful and often harrowing adventures during the three-year odyssey in a classic of 19th century adventure and travel writing.
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An account of the first man to ride a bicycle around the world; a classic first published in 1887.
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In 1884, Thomas Stevens left San Francisco on a Columbia high-wheeler with the outrageous goal of becoming the first man to ride a bicycle across the United States. When he reached Boston, he decided to continue around the world, and soon sailed to London for the ride across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. The high-wheeler was heavy and cumbersome, his supplies were limited to socks, a spare shirt, and a slicker that doubled as tent and bedroll, and much of the country he traversed was wild. Yet he persevered, recording his colorful and often harrowing adventures during the three-year odyssey in a classic of 19th century adventure and travel writing.
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An account of the first man to ride a bicycle around the world; a classic first published in 1887.
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THE beauties of nature are scattered with a more lavish hand across the country lying between the summit of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and the shores where the surf romps and rolls over the auriferous sands of the Pacific, in Golden Gate Park, than in a journey of the same length in any other part of the world. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
telegraph jee, bin bacalem, moonshi bashi, ridable road, excellent wheeling, chapar jee, kahvay jee, khan jee, ridable ground, fair wheeling, artificial highway, six farsakhs, bicycle ridden, old khan, irrigating ditches, whole world round, glorious climate, gravelly plain, high mud wall Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Asia Minor, Kiftan Sahib, Pasha Khan, Boundary Commission, Mohammed Ahzim Khan, Eski Baba, Grand Trunk, Abbas Khan, New York, United States, Doshan Tepe, Mirza Hassan, Aminulah Khan, Bey Bazaar, Kizil Irmak, Bela Palanka, Russian Minister, Yankee Doodle, Asiatic Turkey, Ayoob Khan, Black Sea, Central Asia, Imam Riza, John Chinaman, Laramie Plains New!
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THE beauties of nature are scattered with a more lavish hand across the country lying between the summit of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and the shores where the surf romps and rolls over the auriferous sands of the Pacific, in Golden Gate Park, than in a journey of the same length in any other part of the world. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
telegraph jee, bin bacalem, moonshi bashi, ridable road, excellent wheeling, chapar jee, kahvay jee, khan jee, ridable ground, fair wheeling, artificial highway, six farsakhs, bicycle ridden, old khan, irrigating ditches, whole world round, glorious climate, gravelly plain, high mud wall Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Asia Minor, Kiftan Sahib, Pasha Khan, Boundary Commission, Mohammed Ahzim Khan, Eski Baba, Grand Trunk, Abbas Khan, New York, United States, Doshan Tepe, Mirza Hassan, Aminulah Khan, Bey Bazaar, Kizil Irmak, Bela Palanka, Russian Minister, Yankee Doodle, Asiatic Turkey, Ayoob Khan, Black Sea, Central Asia, Imam Riza, John Chinaman, Laramie Plains New!
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- Around The World On A Bicycle by Thomas Stevens on 6 pages
- Connecticut Yankee by Mark Twain in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Mark Twain: Four Complete Novels by Rh Value Publishing in Front Matter
- Lalla Rookh by T. Moore on page 782
- Family Reunion by Carole Gift Page in Front Matter
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- Around The World On A Bicycle by Thomas Stevens in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- The Sun in My Eyes: Two-Wheeling East by Josie Dew on page 129
- Spalding's World Tour: The Epic Adventure that Took Baseball Around the Globe - And Made It America's Game by Mark Lamster in Back Matter
- Bicycle Collectibles: with Pricing Guide (Cycling Resources) by Dan Gindling on page 22
- Lord Beaconsfield by James Anthony Froude in Back Matter
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