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Herlihy, David V. Bicycles: The History.(Book review)

Publication: International Social Science Review
Publication Date: 22-MAR-06
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Herlihy, David V. Bicycles: The History. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004. 480 pages. Cloth, $40.

Herlihy, a denizen of Hull, MA, and a look-alike of Michael Caine, is a lifetime scholar of the bicycle. He started as a teenager in the 1970s and kept up his research until the to...

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...present produce this history of the two-wheel "mechanical horse." His reports on the development of the bicycle have been published in the New York Times, Boston Globe, and numerous periodicals; he has received several awards, and served as curator of the "Bicycle Takes Off" traveling exhibit on bicycle history.

In this opus, an elegant tome with almost 200 illustrations, close to half of them in color, Herlihy studies the multifaceted history of the bicycle, from the early nineteenth century to the present. The real start...

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