Around the World on a Bicycle (Classics of American Sport)
Contributors: Thomas Pauly (Introduction)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Published: January 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 1072
ISBN-13: 9780811726535
Subjects: Classic travel writing; Cycling; c 1800 to c 1900; Sports & Recreation; Cycling - General; Travel - General; Voyages around the world; Sports; Stevens, Thomas,; Essays & Travelogues; Bicycle touring; 1855-; Travel
First sentence: 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.