Go By Bike (and Book!)

Celebrate Winter Go By Bike Week (Feb 8th - 14th) with some cycling themed reads to fix your ride and inspire your next.

Updated February 8, 2025
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Greater Victoria Public Library
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Along a long road
Viva, Frank.
Paper Book
Follow that road! Speed off on an eventful bicycle ride along the bold yellow road that cuts through town, by the sea, and through the country. Ride up and around, along and through, out and down. Frank's striking graphic style is executed in just five joyous...
Two wheels good : the history and mystery of the bicycle
Rosen, Jody
Paper Book
A panoramic revisionist portrait of the nineteenth-century invention that is transforming the twenty-first-century world "Excellent . . . calls to mind Bill Bryson, John McPhee, Rebecca Solnit."--The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) ONE...
Wheels of change : how women rode the bicycle to freedom (with a few flat tires along the way)
Macy, Sue.
Paper Book
Take a lively look at women's history from aboard a bicycle, which granted females the freedom of mobility and helped empower women's liberation. Through vintage photographs, advertisements, cartoons, and songs,Wheels of Changetransports young readers to bygone eras to see how women used the...
Lands of lost borders :
Harris, Kate,
Paper Book
"Lands of Lost Borders carried me up into a state of openness and excitement I haven't felt for years. It's a modern classic."--Pico Iyer A brilliant, fierce writer, and winner of the 2019 RBC Taylor Prize, makes her debut with this enthralling travelogue and memoir of her...

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