The cyclist who went out in the cold : adventures along the Iron Curtain trail
Moore, Tim, 1964-2017
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Scaling a new peak of rash over-ambition, Tim Moore tackles the 9000km 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.
Main title:
Author:
Moore, Tim, 1964-, author
Imprint:
London : Yellow Jersey Press, 2017.
Collation:
340 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white, and colour) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2016.Map on inside covers.
ISBN:
9780224100212 (pbk)
Dewey class:
914.045612914914'.045612914.0456914.045914.04561
LC class:
G155.E85
Local class:
914.045
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1925509