With numerous impressive photos and a unique aesthetic realisation, the book "Fascination Bicycle" documents the history of the development of the bicycle in the context of the respective social environment. With this work, the internationally renowned bicycle historian Pryor Dodge presents a comprehensive appreciation of the bicycle as the nucleus of modern individual transport. The most beautiful book on bicycle history - based on the latest historical research!
Reinventing the wheel
Should women ride bicycles? This was a hotly debated question in the 19th century. The saviours of the endangered West and guardians of clean morals were adamant: No. Emancipated women, on the other hand, embraced the freedom that the saddle offered them.
"The Fascination of the Bicycle" is a special illustrated book from Delius Klasing Verlag, in which Pryor Dodge traces the "history, technology and development" of the bicycle down to the most remote and fascinating details. The role that the bicycle played in liberating women from male paternalism is just one of the highly interesting chapters in this comprehensive and ingeniously designed work.
Encyclopaedia of the bicycle
It is no exaggeration to describe this book as the encyclopaedia of the bicycle. In the beginning there was the balance bike, still without pedals and without tyres, with which you literally had to pedal to move forward. This was soon followed by the velocipede, which was already equipped with pedals. It was built in variants that would still be mourned today if they had not been completely forgotten. For example, the three-wheeled Michaux model with a carved grip head and turned wooden handles.
Soon, however, the bicycle conquered the people, became democratic and an all-purpose device, usable in everyday life, for leisure and, of course, for sport. All these aspects are thoroughly reflected in the book, whose informative texts are illustrated by many, often quite unusual, pictures. The history of technology and culture thus merge into an entertaining and visually appealing whole.
Pryor Dodge: The fascination of the bicycle. History - Technology - Development.
1st edition 2011
224 pages, size 23.9 x 28.4 cm, hardcover with dust jacket, 132 partly colour photos, 176 mainly colour illustrations
€ 39.90 (D) / € 41.10 (A)
ISBN 978-3-7688-5316-3
Delius Klasing Publishing House, Bielefeld
