Around the World on Two Wheels

Autor*innen

• Peter Zheutlin

Parameter

• 272 Seiten
• 10 Lesestunden

• Belletristik
• Biografien & Memoiren
• Geschichte
• Karten & Reisen
• Sachliteratur

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Until 1894 there were no female sport stars, no product endorsement deals, and no young mothers with the chutzpah to circle the globe on a bicycle. Annie Londonderry changed all of that. When Annie left Boston in June of that year, she was a brash young lady with a 42-pound bicycle, a revolver, a change of underwear, and a dream of freedom. She was also a feisty mother of three who had become the center of what one newspaper called "one of the most novel wagers ever made": a high-stakes bet between two wealthy merchants that a woman could not ride around the world on a bicycle. The epic journey that followed took the connection between athletics and commercialism to dizzying new heights, and turned Annie Londonderry into a symbol of women's equality.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Einband: Paperback