Chasing Rickshaws by Tony Wheeler

Chasing Rickshaws by Tony Wheeler

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In text and photographs this book visits riders' dormitories in Calcutta, tracks down the artists who paint the colourful rickshaws of Dhaka, locates the scrapyard where confiscated rickshaws await their fate in Hanoi, rides with the official who supervises riding tests in Penang and tracks down the ultimate rickshaw rarity, women riders.

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Chasing Rickshaws by Tony Wheeler

In 1997, inveterate Asia travellers Tony Wheeler and Richard I'Anson chased rickshaws through twelve Asian cities. Rickshaws, their riders and their customers have been studied by engineers, evaluated by transport economists and analysed by sociologists. And now they're celebrated in this lavishly illustrated book.

Tony and Maureen Wheeler founded travel publication Lonely Planet after a trip along Asia's hippie trail in 1972, and the New York Times called him the trailblazing patron saint of the world's backpackers and adventure travelers. Wheeler was instrumental in the development of Melbourne's Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing, and Ideas, as well as the Planet Wheeler Foundation's work on more than fifty projects in the developing world.

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ISBN 13 9780864426406
ISBN 10 0864426402
Title Chasing Rickshaws
Author Tony Wheeler
Series Lonely Planet Pictorial
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Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Lonely Planet Publications Ltd
Year published 1998-10-01
Number of pages 192
Prizes Short-listed for APA Design Awards: Collins Booksellers Best Designed Jacket of the Year 1998
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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