Bicycle History

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    • The History and Mystery of the Bicycle
    • By: Jody Rosen
    • Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins, Amanda Carlin, Fred Sanders
    • Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 05-24-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 75 ratings
    • The bicycle is a vestige of the Victorian era, seemingly at odds with our age of smartphones and ride-sharing apps and driverless cars. Yet we live on a bicycle planet. Across the world, more people travel by bicycle than any other form of transportation....

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    • The Boxcar Children Mysteries, Book 15
    • By: Gertrude Chandler Warner
    • Narrated by: Aimee Lilly
    • Series: The Boxcar Children Mysteries, Book 15, The Boxcar Children, Book 15
    • Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
    • Release date: 01-01-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 83 ratings
    • The Aldens are making the journey to their Aunt Jane’s house on an overnight bicycle trip. But on their first night, the children are caught in a rainstorm and have to take shelter in an old, abandoned house....

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    • How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (with a Few Flat Tires along the Way)
    • By: Sue Macy
    • Narrated by: Meredith Orlow
    • Length: 2 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Sue Macy’s Wheels of Change offers young listeners an ear-opening account of how, beginning in the late 19th century, the bicycle helped change the course of women’s history....

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    • A Round the World Bicycle Adventure
    • By: Barbara Savage
    • Narrated by: Nan McNamara
    • Length: 15 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 05-12-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 127 ratings
    • This is the story of Barbara and Larry Savage's sometimes dangerous, often zany, but ultimately rewarding 23,000-mile global bicycle odyssey, which took them through 25 countries in two years. Miles from Nowhere is an adventure not to be missed....

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    • Ireland to India with a Bicycle
    • By: Dervla Murphy
    • Narrated by: Emma Lowe
    • Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 07-31-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 84 ratings
    • Full Tilt is the inspiring true story of Dervla Murphy's 1963 journey from Ireland to India on an Armstrong Cadet bicycle, and the trials, landscapes, and cultures she encountered along the way....

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    • A Bicycle Journey Through Asia and Africa
    • By: Charlie Walker
    • Narrated by: Charlie Walker
    • Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 05-20-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 140 ratings
    • From hiking through sandstorms in the Gobi desert to barreling down rapids in a dugout canoe, this perilous adventure, and Charlie’s many encounters along the way, gives insight into the past, present, and future of often-overlooked places during periods of great change....

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    • By: Yona Zeldis McDonough
    • Narrated by: Mark Turetsky
    • Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 141 ratings
    • Marcel dreams of someday competing in the Tour de France. But ever since Germany's occupation of France began two years ago, the race has been canceled. Now there are soldiers everywhere....

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    • Artists and Writers in the Hamptons
    • By: Robert Long
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 04-07-06
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • Some of the twentieth century's most important artists and writers lived and worked on the East End of Long Island....

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    • By: Shirley Hughes
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 3 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 04-23-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • Florence, Italy, 1944: The city is under heavy Nazi occupation, but for 13-year-old Paolo, war is a long and boring wait....

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    • A Senior’s Solo Bicycle Ride Across America for His Grandson
    • By: Bill W. Fowler
    • Narrated by: Bill W. Fowler
    • Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 04-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • A bicycling and travel audiobook like no other. It tells the story of a 66-year-old grandfather who has never ridden a bicycle for more than a few miles at a time and sets out to ride a bicycle from one coast of the United States to the other....

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    • The Comprehensive Evolution of Bicycles
    • By: Barrett Williams, ChatGPT ChatGPT
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 1 hr and 37 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-24
    • Language: English
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    • Hop on, strap in, and let's ride through the thrilling, captivating, and transformative story of a two-wheeled invention that revolutionized human ...

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    • Transportation, Culture, & Resistance
    • By: Adonia E. Lugo PhD
    • Narrated by: Melissa Medina
    • Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 06-21-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Bicycle/Race paints an unforgettable picture of Los Angeles—and the United States—from the perspective of two wheels....

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    • The Pursuit of Happiness on Two Wheels
    • By: Robert Penn
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
    • Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 02-13-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 154 ratings
    • Robert Penn has saddled up nearly every day of his adult life. In his late 20s, he pedaled 25,000 miles around the world....

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    • By: Pferron Doss
    • Narrated by: Dan Schoeneberg
    • Length: 7 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-24
    • Language: English
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    • Did you know that in the late nineteenth century, the United States military used bikes to travel from one place to another? They were a new invention and a quicker way to travel than walking.

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    • Five Island Cove 10
    • By: Jessie Newton
    • Narrated by: Jill Smith
    • Series: Five Island Cove, Book 10
    • Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Tessa Simmons has just taken a job as the Assistant Director at the library in the cove, and she’s been charged with all of the adult programming. Her ideas are big, and she brings in her new friends for focus groups to truly expand the reach of literature in the cove.

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    • How the Bicycle Reshaped American Life
    • By: Margaret Guroff
    • Narrated by: Margaret Guroff
    • Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 05-24-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • With cities across the country adding miles of bike lanes and building bike-share stations, bicycling is enjoying a new surge of popularity in America....

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    • Making Music in the 1960s
    • By: Joe Boyd
    • Narrated by: Joe Boyd
    • Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 03-19-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • Joe Boyd tells of his journey through Sixties music, from tour managing Muddy Waters and Coleman Hawkins to becoming a leading record producer....

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    • San Francisco Chronicle 1985-1988
    • By: Ray Hosler
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-24
    • Language: English
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    • This book includes all of my columns published in the San Francisco Chronicle from 1985-1988. It is divided into Equipment (63), Repairs (16), ...

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    • The Untold Story of Seven Thousand Bicycles and the Rise of a Borderland Empire
    • By: Kimball Taylor
    • Narrated by: Thom Rivera
    • Length: 13 hrs
    • Release date: 11-28-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • It wasn’t surprising when the first abandoned bicycles were found along the dirt roads and farmland just across the border from Tijuana, but before long they were arriving in droves. This is the story of 7,000 bikes that made an incredible journey and one young man from Oaxaca....

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