| Title | : | In Praise of the Bicycle |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Marc Augé & Teresa Lavender Fagan |
| Release | : | 2019-11-15 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Sports & Outdoors, Books, Fiction & Literature, Essays |
| Size | : | 301679 |
| Witness the French anthropologist as we have never seen him before. Marc Augé coined the term “non-place” to describe the ubiquitous airports, hotels, and motorways filled with anonymous individuals. In this new book, he casts his anthropologist’s eye on a subject close to his heart: cycling. With <i>In Praise of the Bicycle</i>, Augé takes us on a two-wheeled ride around our cities and on a personal journey into ourselves. We all remember the thrill of riding a bike for the first time and the joys of cycling. Here he reminds us that these memories are not just personal, but rooted in a time and a place, in a history that is shared with millions of others.<br><br>Part memoir, part manifesto, Augé’s book celebrates cycling as a way of reconnecting with the places in which we live, and, ultimately, as a necessary alternative to our disconnected world. |
