In Praise of the Bicycle by Augé, Marc

In Praise of the Bicycle (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781789141382)

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Format: Hardcover
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In Praise of the Bicycle by Augé, Marc

In Praise of the Bicycle

$17.50
In Praise of the Bicycle by Augé, Marc

In Praise of the Bicycle

$17.50
Format: Hardcover
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Witness the French anthropologist as we have never seen him before. Marc Aug coined the term "non-place" to describe the ubiquitous airports, hotels, and motorways filled with anonymous individuals. In this new book, he casts his anthropologist's eye on a subject close to his heart: cycling. With In Praise of the Bicycle, Aug takes us on a two-wheeled ride around our cities and on a personal journey into ourselves. We all remember the thrill of riding a bike for the first time and the joys of cycling. Here he reminds us that these memories are not just personal, but rooted in a time and a place, in a history that is shared with millions of others.

Part memoir, part manifesto, Aug 's book celebrates cycling as a way of reconnecting with the places in which we live, and, ultimately, as a necessary alternative to our disconnected world.

Author: Marc Augé
ISBN-10: 1789141389
ISBN-13: 9781789141382
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Language: English
Published: 08/15/2019
Pages: 96
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.70d
By Marc Augé
By Marc Augé
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Marc Augé is an anthropologist and the former director of studies at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris. His many books include Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity and The Future. He lives in Paris. Teresa Lavender Fagan is a freelance translator living in Chicago.

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