The Cyclist Who Went Out in the Cold
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The Cyclist Who Went Out in the Cold

  1. 368 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Cyclist Who Went Out in the Cold

About this book

Not content with tackling the Italian Alps or the route of the Tour de France, Tim Moore sets out to scale a new peak of rash over-ambition: the 6,000-mile route of the old Iron Curtain on a tiny-wheeled, two-geared East German shopping bike. Moore sets off from the northernmost Norwegian-Russian border at the Arctic winter's brutal height, bullying his plucky MIFA 900 through the endless sub-zero desolation of snowbound Finland. Sleeping in bank vaults, imperial palaces and unreconstructed Soviet youth hostels, battling vodka-breathed Russian hostility, Romanian landslides, and a diet of dumplings, Moore and his 'so-small bicycle' are sustained by the kindness of reindeer farmers and Serbian rock gods, plus a shameful addiction to Magic Man energy drink. Haunted throughout by the border detritus of watchtowers and rusted razor wire, Moore reflects on the curdling of the Communist dream, and the memories of a Cold War generation reared on the fear of apocalypse—at a time of renewed East-West tension. After three months, twenty countries and a fifty-eight degree jaunt up the thermostat, man and bike finally wobble up to a Black Sea beach in Bulgaria, older and wiser, but mainly older.

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Information

Publisher
Pegasus Books
Year
2017
eBook ISBN
9781681773674
Print ISBN
9781681776323
Subtopic
European History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. 1. To the North
  4. 2. Finnish Lapland
  5. 3. The Winter War
  6. 4. Northern Ostrobothnia
  7. 5. Central and Southern Finland
  8. 6. Russia
  9. 7. Estonia and Latvia
  10. 8. Lithuania and Kaliningrad
  11. 9. Poland
  12. 10. The German Baltic
  13. 11. The Inner German Border
  14. 12. The Czech Republic, Germany and Austria
  15. 13. Hungary, Slovenia and Croatia
  16. 14. Serbia
  17. 15. Romania
  18. 16. Serbia II
  19. 17. Bulgaria and Macedonia
  20. 18. Bulgaria II
  21. 19. Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria
  22. Also by Tim Moore
  23. Copyright

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