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Around the World on Two Wheels: Annie Londonderry's Extraordinary Ride
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Author
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Peter Zheutlin.
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Publisher
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Citadel
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hardcover
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8.5
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5.75
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0.95
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ISBN
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9780806528519
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Pages/Publication Date
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260/2007
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Daedalus Item Code
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14186
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Description
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Until 1894 there were no female sport stars, no product endorsement deals, and no young mothers with the chutzpah to circle the globe on a bicycle, journalist and cyclist Peter Zheutlin tells us; Annie Kopchovsky changed all of that. Zheutlin's great-grandaunt, Kopchovsky was a suffragist with only a 42-pound bicycle, a revolver, and a change of underwear when she left her family in Boston. Zheutlin recounts her thrilling journey and how she financed the voyage and made herself rich through lectures, personal appearances, and sponsorship contracts—even taking the name "Londonderry" for one—in a bid to prove women were the equal of men and deserving of the same freedoms and rights.
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