WHEN IN DOUBT, PEDAL IT OUT.A bike can be so many different things – a simple way of navigating busy city streets or enjoying quiet lanes, a cross-country steed to take a rider up hill & down dale or even a world-beating racing machine. What unites everyone who rides is that they each have their own cycling story to tell. This book collects inspirational stories from riders around the world, both ordinary & extraordinary, from the London cyclist who rode 10, 000 km in a month, to the daredevil trials rider who hops from building to building, to classic tales of gr&-tour rivalries & legendary cycling records of days gone by. Essential reading for anyone who loves life on two wheels. ...

The relationship between sport, history, politics & wider culture is always a fascinating one. In Pedalare! Pedalare! John Foot explores the centrality of cycling in the Italian consciousness with reference to Fascism, the Cold War & the two World Wars. The sport’s development is investigated alongside changes in wider Italian society, from the poor peasants who took up cycling in the early, pioneering period, to the slick, professional sport of today. Scandals & controversy appear throughout the book as constant features of the connection between fans, journalists & cycling. Concluding with an examination of doping, which has helped to destroy what was at one time the most popular sport of all, Pedalare, Pedalare is an engrossing history of a national passion, & essential reading for anyone who wants to know more about the history of cycling in Italy. ...

Pedallers’ Paradise North Island by Nigel Rushton is a cycling guide to New Zealand’s south isl&. The publication is produced & printed by a small press in New Zealand; h&-made & black & white only but specifically by a local cyclist, for cyclists. Approx. 70 pages of route descriptions feature, grouped into five separate regions of the island – east, central, south, west & north. Street & arterial maps are included where applicable. Routes described are usually main regional roads on which to cycle. When alternative routes, side trips or link roads are options these are noted in the text. Profiles of routes are included & are intended as rough guides to the terrain; giving distances in kilometres, elevation in metres. In addition, gradient information is provided separately. En-route services, such as information centres, food & refreshment options, accommodation choices (including campsites, hostels, hotels, & WWOOF schemes) & cycle shops, are detailed. Local attractions are also mentioned. ...

Pedallers’ Paradise South Island by Nigel Rushton is a cycling guide to New Zealand’s south isl&. The publication is produced & printed by a small press in New Zealand; h&-made & black & white only but specifically by a local cyclist, for cyclists. Approx. 70 pages of route descriptions feature, grouped into five separate regions of the island – east, central, south, west & north. Street & arterial maps are included where applicable. Routes described are usually main regional roads on which to cycle. When alternative routes, side trips or link roads are options these are noted in the text. Profiles of routes are included & are intended as rough guides to the terrain; giving distances in kilometres, elevation in metres. In addition, gradient information is provided separately. En-route services, such as information centres, food & refreshment options, accommodation choices (including campsites, hostels, hotels, & WWOOF schemes) & cycle shops, are detailed. Local attractions are also mentioned. ...

The Peddars Way & Norfolk Coast Path, a 150-km/93 mile route across Norfolk & around its northern coast between Knettishall & Cromer, in a series of walking guides to the National Trails in England & Wales with colour extracts from the Ordnance Survey's Explorer series at 1:25, 000 showing points along the route cross-referenced to the text. The maps also indicate nearby places of interest & various facilities including campsites & caravan parks, youth hostels, water points, pubs, information or visitor centres, etc. Also shown are alternative sections of the route & stretches designated as bridleways or suitable for cycling. The guides are illustrated throughout with colour photos & include an introductory section on the path & the surrounding landscape, plus a chapter of useful information including access to various locations along the route by public transport, a list of tourist information offices & principal overnight stopping places, a bibliography, etc. ...

The Peddars Way & Norfolk Coast Path, a 150-km/93 mile route across Norfolk & around its northern coast between Knettishall & Cromer, in a series of walking guides to the National Trails in England & Wales with colour extracts from the Ordnance Survey's Explorer series at 1:25, 000 showing points along the route cross-referenced to the text. The maps also indicate nearby places of interest & various facilities including campsites & caravan parks, youth hostels, water points, pubs, information or visitor centres, etc. Also shown are alternative sections of the route & stretches designated as bridleways or suitable for cycling. The guides are illustrated throughout with colour photos & include an introductory section on the path & the surrounding landscape, plus a chapter of useful information including access to various locations along the route by public transport, a list of tourist information offices & principal overnight stopping places, a bibliography, etc. ...

Peddars Way & Norfolk Coast Path by Alexander Stewart in Trailblazer’s British Walking Guides series; highly practical, informative & portable guides designed with the adventurous walker in mind, & produced by one of the leading outdoor guide-book publishers. Each title in the series explores a range of popular walking routes & long-distance footpaths in Engl&, Scotland & Wales. Designed with practicality in mind, each guide describes a long-distance walking route in clearly defined stages, allowing walkers to easily identify which parts of the route they want to attempt. Strong on both practical content & cultural & historical background, Trailblazer Guides include extensive commentary on sites along the way, including areas of historical interest & outstanding beauty, in addition to cultural & social background, as walkers pass through the landscape. in addition, there are detailed descriptions of places to stay & eat & drink on each walk, as well as boxed insets exploring a local tradition or custom. Detailed, large-scale walking maps are included in each title – a unique feature of Trailblazer guides – which include important information on walking times, directions, tricky junctions, places to stay & eat & general points of interest. The guide is arranged in 4 sections – Planning Your Walk, the Environment & Nature, Minimum Impact Walking & Outdoor Safety & Route Guides & Maps. There is detailed advice & guidance on the route itself, practical information for the walker, budgeting, when to go, itineraries, what to take & getting to & from the route. in addition, informative sections on the environment, flora & fauna & walking safety seek to improve walkers’ experiences of the routes & get the most from their trip. A Minimum Impact Walking & Outdoor Safety section also informs readers of the economic & environmental impact of walking. An appendix gives a list of GPS waypoints along each of the walks. ...

The Peddars Way & Norfolk Coast Path, a 150-km/92 mile route across Norfolk & around its northern coast between Hunstanton & Cromer, in a series of walking guides to the National Trails in England & Wales with colour extracts from the Ordnance Survey`s Explorer series at 1:25, 000 showing points along the route cross-referenced to the text. The maps also indicate nearby places of interest & various facilities including campsites & caravan parks, youth hostels, water points, pubs, information or visitor centres, etc. Also shown are alternative sections of the route & stretches designated as bridleways or suitable for cycling. The guides are illustrated throughout with colour photos & include an introductory section on the path & the surrounding landscape, plus a chapter of useful information including access to various locations along the route by public transport, a list of tourist information offices & principal overnight stopping places, a bibliography, etc. Current edition of this title was published in August 2015. To see other titles in the Aurum Press series of guides to the national trails & other long-distance footpaths, please click on the series link. ...

” It`s a book less on what I did than on what others, mainly my parents, did to me” Taking in a vast gallery of extraordinary characters from Paris` post-war years, Pedigree is an autobiographical portrait of Post-War Paris & a tumultuous childhood
- a childhood replete with insecurity & sorrow that informed the oeuvre of France`s Nobel Laureate. With his sometime-actress mother & shady businessman father barely functioning in any parental role, the young Modiano spent his childhood being packed off to the care of others, or held at a safe distance in a grimy boarding school
- which he ran away from several times. His impecunious mother had ”a heart of stone”; his womanising father once called the police when his son asked him for money, & later ceased all contact with him. But for all his parents` indifference, it is the death of his younger brother when Modiano is eleven that cuts deepest, leaving a wound that can never be healed.

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” It`s a book less on what I did than on what others, mainly my parents, did to me” Taking in a vast gallery of extraordinary characters from Paris` post-war years, Pedigree is an autobiographical portrait of Post-War Paris & a tumultuous childhood
- a childhood replete with insecurity & sorrow that informed the oeuvre of France`s Nobel Laureate. With his sometime-actress mother & shady businessman father barely functioning in any parental role, the young Modiano spent his childhood being packed off to the care of others, or held at a safe distance in a grimy boarding school
- which he ran away from several times. His impecunious mother had ”a heart of stone”; his womanising father once called the police when his son asked him for money, & later ceased all contact with him. But for all his parents` indifference, it is the death of his younger brother when Modiano is eleven that cuts deepest, leaving a wound that can never be healed.

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