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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: cyclist who went out in the cold
    sub title: adventures riding the Iron Curtain
  name:
    name part: Moore, Tim
    name part: 1964-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 340 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Not content with tackling the Italian Alps or the route of the Tour de France, Tim Moore sets out to scale a new peak of rash over-ambition, 6,000 mile route of the old Iron Curtain on a tiny-wheeled, two-geared East German shopping bike. Asking for trouble, and getting it, Moore sets off from the northernmost Norwegian-Russian border at the Arctic winter's brutal height, bullying his plucky MIFA 900 through the endless sub-zero desolation of snowbound Finland. Sleeping in bank vaults, imperial palaces and unreconstructed Soviet youth hostels, battling vodka-breathed Russian hostility, Romanian landslides and a diet of dumplings, Moore and his 'so-small bicycle' are sustained by the kindness of reindeer farmers and Serbian rock gods, plus a shameful addiction to Magic Man energy drink. Haunted throughout his journey by mechanical failure and 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 renewed East-West tension. After three months, twenty countries and steadily warming temperatures, man and bike finally wobble up to a Black Sea beach in Bulgaria, older and wiser, but mainly older.
  table of contents: To the North -- Finnish Lapland -- The winter war -- Northern Ostrobothnia -- Central and southern Finland -- Russia -- Estonia and Latvia -- Lithuania and Kaliningrad -- Poland -- The German Baltic -- The inner German border -- The Czech Republic, Germany and Austria -- Hungary, Slovenia and Croatia -- Serbia -- Romania -- Serbia II -- Bulgaria and Macedonia -- Bulgaria II -- Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria.
  note: Tim Moore.
  note: Originally published: London : Yellow Jersey Press, 2016.
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  subject:
    name:
      name part: Moore, Tim
      name part: 1964-
    topic: Travel
    geographic: Communist countries
  subject:
    topic: Bicycle touring
    geographic: Communist countries
  subject:
    geographic: Communist countries
    topic: Description and travel
  subject:
    topic: Cyclists
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Europe
  subject:
    topic: HUMOR / Sports
  subject:
    topic: SPORTS & RECREATION / Cycling
  subject:
    topic: SPORTS & RECREATION / History
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Europe / General
  subject:
    topic: HUMOR / Topic / Sports
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Europe
  subject:
    topic: HUMOR / Sports
  subject:
    topic: SPORTS & RECREATION / Cycling
  subject:
    topic: SPORTS & RECREATION / History
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Europe / General
  subject:
    topic: HUMOR / Topic / Sports
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Europe
  subject:
    topic: HUMOR / Sports
  subject:
    topic: SPORTS & RECREATION / Cycling
  subject:
    topic: SPORTS & RECREATION / History
  classification: GV1051.M66 A3 2017
  classification: 796.6/094
  identifier: 9781681772998
  identifier: 168177299X
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 160617
    record change date: 20211215124607.0
    record identifier: in00003717057