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Name: around the world on a bicycle vol 2 1889
Format: pdf
Size: 24.31 MB

Title: Around the World on a Bicycle ...
Author: Thomas Stevens
Language: angielski
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biography, Sports, Sports & Adventure Biography, Adventurers - General & Miscellaneous - Biography
Publisher: CreateSpace Publishing
ISBN: 9781481175302
Total pages: 496

Thomas Stevens (born 24 December 1854, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England, died London, 24 January 1935, aged 80) was the first person to circle the globe by bicycle. He rode a large-wheeled Ordinary, also known as a Penny-Farthing, from April 1884 to December 1886. He later searched for Henry Morton Stanley in Africa, investigated the claims of Indian ascetics and became manager of the Garrick Theatre in London. Along the way, Stevens sent a series of letters to Harper's magazine detailing his experiences and later collected those experiences into a two-volume book of which this is Volume II.