The Lost Cyclist

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: MAINSTREAM PUBLISHING
Publisher Place: Uk
Publisher Year: 2010
Edition: First Edition

Description: 326 pages. Ex-Library. (only one small stamp on inside page). Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: In the spring of 1892, Frank G. Lenz, a gallant young accountant from a modest German American family, set forth from his unhappy home in Pittsburgh to circle the globe atop a new safety bicycle with inflatable tyres (the forerunner of todays road bike). He brought along a large wooden camera and arranged to send regular reports to his sponsor, Outing magazine, effectively making him a harbinger of the great bicycle boom that was about to explode with stunning social and industrial repercussions. Two years, fourteen thousand miles and many adventures later, after crossing the United States, Japan, China, Burma, India and Persia, just as he was about to enter Europe for the home stretch, Lenz vanished. His presumed murder in Asiatic Turkey jolted the American public and became an international cause cl¨bre. The Lost Cyclist recounts, for the first time ever, the short but remarkable life of Lenz and the heroic efforts of another American globe girdler, William L. Sachtleben, who was sent by Outing to unravel Lenzs mysterious death in Turkey - all set against the horrifying backdrop of the Hamidian massacres.

ISBN: 9781845964320