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Cyclogeography Jon Day

Cyclogeography By Jon Day

Cyclogeography by Jon Day


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Cyclogeography lifts the lid on the hidden world of Cycle Couriers, the 'solitary creatures of the underworld', and the strange or illicit contents of the parcels they deliver. Here Jon Day explores the extraordinary subculture of courier bicycle races including the Cycle Messenger World Championships and the Alleycat races.

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Cyclogeography Summary

Cyclogeography: Journeys of a London Bicycle Courier by Jon Day

Cyclogeography is an essay about the bicycle in the cultural imagination and a portrait of London seen from the saddle. The bicycle enables us to feel a landscape, rather than just see it, and in the great tradition of the psychogeographers, Day attempts to depart from the map and reclaim the streets of the city whilst exploring the relationship between bodies, bikes and geography.

Cyclogeography Reviews

This is a street-smart, super-sharp exploration of the "soft city" as seen from the saddle; Jon Day has written a bold and clever book about the zone where capital and cycling collide. It fascinated me from first page to last; Robert Macfarlane

About Jon Day

Jon Day is a writer, academic and cyclist. He worked as a bicycle courier in London for several years, and is now a lecturer in English Literature at King's College London

Table of Contents

- 1 Prologue -- 2 Circulation -- 3 Cartesian Centaurs -- 4 Race -- 5 Off the Map -- 6 On the Road -- 7 Coda: Breaking Away -- References -

Additional information

CIN1907903992VG
9781907903991
1907903992
Cyclogeography: Journeys of a London Bicycle Courier by Jon Day
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Notting Hill Editions
2015-07-23
168
N/A
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