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Bezig met laden... The Lost Cyclist: The Epic Tale of an American Adventurer and His Mysterious Disappearance (editie 2010)door David Herlihy
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. The author tells the story of Frank Lenz, who lost his life -- murdered -- while cycling solo through the Ottoman empire, intermingled with the story of another world-touring cyclist, William Sachtleben. This made the book harder to read and made no sense until towards the end of the book when Sachtleben is sent to Turkey to find out what happened to Lenz. Then it made sense, but it was too late to redeem my confusion. Much as I was obstructed by Herlihy's sort of quaint 1890s prose style, I eventually did get caught up in this remarkable story, set in a world I knew absolutely nothing about. First, an 1890s America gone bonkers over bicycles, then into Ottoman Empire Turkey and the horrendous genocide of the Armenians, and finally the struggle of the young Midwestern American thrown into the middle of the atrocities, trying to discovered who murdered the world-circling Frank Lenz. A pretty damned interesting sidelight into American history. So I guess I liked it after all. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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HTML: In the late 1880s, Frank Lenz of Pittsburgh, a renowned high-wheel racer and long-distance tourist, dreamed of cycling around the world. He finally got his chance by recasting himself as a champion of the downsized "safety-bicycle" with inflatable tires, the forerunner of the modern road bike that was about to become wildly popular. In the spring of 1892 he quit his accounting job and gamely set out west to cover twenty thousand miles over three continents as a correspondent for Outing magazine. Two years later, after having survived countless near disasters and unimaginable hardships, he approached Europe for the final leg. He never made it. His mysterious disappearance in eastern Turkey sparked an international outcry and compelled Outing to send William Sachtleben, another larger-than-life cyclist, on Lenz's trail. Bringing to light a wealth of information, Herlihy's gripping narrative captures the soaring joys and constant dangers accompanying the bicycle adventurer in the days before paved roads and automobiles. This untold story culminates with Sachtleben's heroic effort to bring Lenz's accused murderers to justice, even as troubled Turkey teetered on the edge of collapse. .Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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In some ways the story, plot and ending are already done and all that needs doing is threading it together. Then again in some ways maybe it's harder to write non-fiction because you are bound by the facts and if the facts are not that interesting then....There really were some fascinating moments in this book. Franl Nez's trip through countries and place where white people had seldom be seen and bicycles even less.If you take this book at face value and think that it is about a Lost Cyclist then I guess you will be disappointed. If you read it as an extraordinary adventure of one man on a bike then you might even like it.I do read non-fiction and always look forward to it. I'm finding of late that I'm often disappointed. This book is another one of those disappointments. At the end I thought that maybe the author felt they had to present ALL the facts when I thought that LESS facts better presented would have made a better book. But hey, what do I know?Don't even think about it! ( )