John Foster Fraser's "Round the World on a Wheel" may be the first serious Cycling book written. Fraser and two companions left London from St Pancras' Church in 1896 and spent two years Cycling across Europe, Asia and America on their sturdy road-bikes before returning to the same spot by what was then one of the classic Cycling routes in London, Clapham Common, Kennington Park Road, Westminster Bridge Road ("how vile"), Westminster Bridge ("the dirty old Thames"), Parliament Street, Whitehall, Trafalgar Square, Regent Street, Piccadilly Circus ("in the mass of traffic we were nearer our deaths than we had been...
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Books on Cycling Around the World
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