Cycling Atlas North America

Cycling Atlas North America
Author: Greg LeMond
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2025-03-11
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 0789347024

Featuring majestic scenery and dramatic panoramas, these carefully selected tours represent the most beautiful places to pedal throughout North America for both seasoned and novice cyclists featuring the groundbreaking user-sourced mapping technology of the Strava app. The most complete cycling guide ever published for North America, this book presents 350 carefully curated cycling itineraries in the US, Canada, and Mexico featuring maps, technical details, tourist information, not-to-be-missed scenic highlights, and cycling hacks and tips. Based upon information drawn from users of the Strava app, the most knowledgeable and expert cycling community in the world, these routes are the “best” balancing cycling level, scenic beauty, points of interest, iconic sites to visit—even must-visit bike shops. Those selected by three-time American Tour de France winner Greg LeMond focus on quieter roads—including dirt and gravel roads—that get cyclists off the beaten track. Organized into eight regional sections covering the entire continent, the book includes some “off the mainland” routes in Hawaii and the Caribbean for good measure. For those with time and a spirit of adventure, routes can be connected for a continuous, coast-to-coast trip.

Cycling Atlas Europe

Cycling Atlas Europe
Author: Claude Droussent
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-03-21
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0789339536

From incredible scenery to dramatic panoramas, these carefully selected tours of the most beautiful places to pedal throughout Europe will delight both seasoned and novice cyclists and feature the groundbreaking user-sourced mapping technology of the Strava app. The guide features 350 of the most beautiful and scenic cycling routes all over Europe, carefully curated for cyclists of every level and ability—from easy, scenic lowland countryside to visually glorious, more strenuous routes in the Alps and the Carpathians. The book also includes routes that enable the user to re-create itineraries from the Tour de France or Giro d’Italia. This is the best European cycling guide ever assembled with the aid of Strava, the mapping app that includes information from the world’s most knowledgeable and expert cyclists who have critically reviewed and rated them. It contains maps, technical details, tourist information, and tips. Included are urban tours that highlight Europe’s cultural glories and routes that highlight the continent’s breathtaking natural beauty. The book is organized into nine regional sections covering mainland Europe from the British Isles and the Iberian Peninsula to Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, and the boot of Italy.

Sloane's Complete Book of All-terrain Bicycles

Sloane's Complete Book of All-terrain Bicycles
Author: Eugene A. Sloane
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 390
Release: 1991
Genre: All terrain bicycles
ISBN: 0671675877

This book contains more than 300 photographs and 75 detailed drawings illustrating everything from helmets to handlebars and brake maintenance to off-road racing.

The Cancer Atlas

The Cancer Atlas
Author: Ahmedin Jemal
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Cancer
ISBN: 9781604432282

This atlas illustrates the latest available data on the cancer epidemic, showing causes, stages of development, and prevalence rates of different types of cancers by gender, income group, and region. It also examines the cost of the disease, both in terms of health care and commercial interests, and the steps being taken to curb the epidemic, from research and screening to cancer management programs and health education.

Maya Atlas

Maya Atlas
Author: Toledo Maya Cultural Council
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Total Pages: 175
Release: 1997
Genre: Mayas
ISBN: 1556432569

Covers human, natural, and cultural resources, history, rainforest management, and current problems in Maya lands.

Barefoot Books World Atlas

Barefoot Books World Atlas
Author: Nick Crane
Publisher: Barefoot Ministries
Total Pages: 56
Release: 2011
Genre: Children's atlases
ISBN: 9781846863325

This atlas is packed with information about the way in which communities and cultures across the world have been shaped by their local environments and it looks at the ideas and initiatives which are shaping the future.

A Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946

A Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946
Author: Richard C. Carpenter
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2003
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780801873317

Little now remains of the vast network of passenger and freight railroad lines that once crisscrossed much of eastern and midwestern America, but in 1946, the steam locomotive was king. This is a record of a time when traveling out of town meant, for most Americans, taking the train.