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The Cyclist Who Went Out in the Cold: Adventures Along the Iron Curtain Trail by Tim Moore (Paperback, 2016)
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The Cyclist Who Went Out in the Cold: Adventures Along the Iron Curtain Trail. Asking for trouble and getting it, he sets off from the northernmost Norwegian-Russian border at the Arctic winters brutal height, bullying his plucky MIFA 900 through the endless and massively sub-zero desolation of snowbound Finland.
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'Bill Bryson on two wheels' Independent Scaling a new peak of rash over-ambition, Tim Moore tackles the 9,000km route of the old Iron Curtain on a tiny-wheeled, two-geared East German shopping bike. Asking for trouble and getting it, he sets off from the northernmost Norwegian-Russian border at the Arctic winter's brutal height, bullying his plucky MIFA 900 through the endless and massively 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 ratcheting East-West tension. After three months, 20 countries and a 58-degree jaunt up the centigrade scale, man and bike finally wobble up to a Black Sea beach in Bulgaria, older and wiser, but mainly older.Product Identifiers
PublisherVintage Publishing
ISBN-139780224100205
eBay Product ID (ePID)221349297
Product Key Features
Book TitleThe Cyclist Who Went Out in the Cold: Adventures Along the Iron Curtain Trail
AuthorTim Moore
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicHistory, Travel Writing
Publication Year2016
TypeTextbook
GenreHumor, Sports
Number of Pages352 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height234mm
Item Width153mm
Item Weight459g
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorTim Moore
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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- 31 Aug, 2022
Brilliant Book
Funny and interesting. A really good read. Reminds me of Bill Bryson. Tim Moore is a great travel writer and I plan to buy other books by him.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 04 Mar, 2020
A man’s travelling adventure behind the iron curtain
Thoroughly engaging book about one man’s desire to cycle along the iron curtain funny and poignant.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 03 Feb, 2021
Fabulous
Unique and he has written other very good cycling adventuresVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 19 Dec, 2019
Very appropriate
Very interesting story for outdoor loving peopleVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 01 Jun, 2024
Perfect. Thank you.
Perfect. Thank you.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
