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Cyclogeography: Journeys of a London Bicycle Courier

Jon Day author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Notting Hill Editions

Published:23rd Jul '15

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Cyclogeography: Journeys of a London Bicycle Courier cover

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.

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

ISBN: 9781907903991

Dimensions: 190mm x 120mm x 15mm

Weight: 209g

168 pages