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Cyclogeography is an essay about the bicycle in the cultural imagination and a portrait of London seen from the saddle. Informed by his years spent as a bicycle courier, Jon Day reflects on the way bicycles connect people with places. Parasitic on the city, couriers have an intimate knowledge of London, and for those who survive the grinding toughness of the job the bicycle can become the only thing holding them together.

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9781910749272

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A bold and clever book about the zone where capital and cycling collide. It fascinated me from first page to last; Robert Macfarlane; Cyclogeography's magic lies in the quality of the prose and Day's skill in looping together disparate threads in a way that feels natural. John Sunyer The Financial Times; Armchair cycling turns out to be an exquisitely indolent sport at least when one has in one's hands a book as choice as Jon Day's Cyclogeography. Kate Kellaway Guardian

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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

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