The cyclist who went out in the cold

adventures along the iron curtain trail

by
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Tim Moore: The cyclist who went out in the cold (Hardcover, 2017, Yellow Jersey Press)

340 sivua : kuvitettu ; 20 cm, 340 pages

English language

Published 2017 by Yellow Jersey Press.

(1 review)

"Scaling a new peak of rash over-ambition, Tim Moore tackles the 9,000km 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 at the Arctic winter’s brutal height, bullying his plucky MIFA 900 through the endless and massively sub-zero desolation of snowbound Finland. Haunted throughout the journey by the border detritus of watchtowers and rusted razor wire, Moore reflects on the curdling of the Communist dream, and the memories of a Cold War generation reared on the fear of apocalypse – at a time of ratcheting East-West tension. After three months, 20 countries and a 58-degree jaunt up the centigrade scale, man and bike finally wobble up to a Black Sea beach in Bulgaria, older and wiser, but mainly older."

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reviewed The cyclist who went out in the cold by Tim Moore

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The story was very captivating and funny. Also the reading performance by the author was pleasant. During the book I could really feel the pain and many times ended up laughing out loud (luckily while I was in my car by myself so I no one will take me for a crazy person). In addition of this being an entertaining and interesting story about an endurance feat, I also learned a lot about history. Having spent my early childhood in a cold war world I felt that the history lessons clarified that world, which I had mostly already forgotten, for me quite a bit. All in all a very entertaining story with an educational component which was very well written and performed.

Subjects

  • Moore, Tim.
  • pyöräily
  • matkat
  • historia
  • poliittinen historia
  • kylmä sota
  • henkilöhistoria
  • cykling
  • resor
  • politisk historia
  • kalla kriget
  • personhistoria
  • Suomi
  • Lappi
  • Venäjä
  • Viro
  • Latvia
  • Saksa
  • Bulgaria
  • Baltia
  • Keski-Eurooppa
  • Itä-Eurooppa
  • Balkanin niemimaa
  • Finland
  • Lappland
  • Ryssland
  • Estland
  • Lettland
  • Tyskland
  • Bulgarien
  • Baltikum
  • Centraleuropa
  • Östeuropa
  • Balkanhalvön