Cyclogeography: Journeys of a London Bicycle Courier
Author(s): DAY JON
Anthologies, Essays & Journals
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.
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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
Jon Day is a writer, academic and cyclist. He worked as a bicycle courier in London for several years, and is now a lecturer in English Literature at King's College London
- 1 Prologue -- 2 Circulation -- 3 Cartesian Centaurs -- 4 Race -- 5 Off the Map -- 6 On the Road -- 7 Coda: Breaking Away -- References -
General Fields
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- : Notting Hill Editions
- : Notting Hill Editions
- : 28 April 2015
- : 190mm X 120mm X 15mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : DAY JON
- : Hardback
- : 168
- : 6