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The Wind at My Back : a Cycling Life by Paul Maunder is a reference work available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Wind at My Back : a Cycling Life about?

"A lone cyclist, disappearing into a wild landscape - brave, free, engaged with the world. It's the kind of image that sells bikes, magazines, clothing; a romantic image that all cyclists aspire to. For cycling is an activity deeply and intimately involved with landscape. The bicycle allows us to explore, to engage with wild places, and return in time for dinner. It also allows us to investigate our surroundings closer to home. It is an activity which, for most of us, happens at a speed that allows a great deal of voyeurism. We peer into houses and shops, gardens and farmyards, fields and hedgerows. What we see may be familiar or alien, but for the creative mind it is always stimulating. Yet - unlike with walking or swimming - the connection between cycling and creativity has only been explored in fragments. On a bicycle, as one is exposed to sights - new or otherwise, through chance or purposeful searching - the repetitive physical actions of cycling work on the mind in a different way to those of walking. The shape of a long ride can become the shape of a novel; the atmosphere imbued by the weather, the hills, the physical exertion, can all influence a writer's tone. Our memories

Who reads The Wind at My Back : a Cycling Life?

Author

Paul Maunder

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781472948120

Category

reference

Subjects

Sports, Anthropology, Travel

Rating

4.3 / 5 (55 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14