topic:"Cycling" found 24 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Fire & bikes

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Medium: Library - Periodical

Author: Takei, Masa

Call Number: P

Author: Takei, Masa

Responsibility: photography by Darryl Leniuk

Physical Description: p. 48-55 : ill., map

Medium: Library - Periodical

Subjects: Cycling; Kettle Valley Railway; Kootenay region; Trails

Notes: In Canadian Geographic Travel, Summer 2008

Call Number: P

Collection: Archives Library

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I follow the wind

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue7841

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1960

Author: Sutherland, Louise

Publisher: London : Southern Cross Press

Call Number: 02 Su8

Author: Sutherland, Louise

Publisher: London : Southern Cross Press

Published Date: 1960

Physical Description: 118p. : ill., ports., map

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Cycling

Accession Number: 3535, 19000

Call Number: 02 Su8

Collection: Archives Library

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The Icefields experience

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue9631

Medium: Library - Periodical

Author: Baker, David

Call Number: P

Author: Baker, David

Physical Description: p.34-36

Medium: Library - Periodical

Subjects: Banff-Jasper Highway; Cycling

Notes: In Explore, no.47, summer 1990

Call Number: P

Collection: Archives Library

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Keeping mountain bikes on track

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue10053

Medium: Library - Periodical

Call Number: P

Physical Description: p.9

Medium: Library - Periodical

Subjects: Cycling

Notes: In Mountain Guide, summer 1987

Call Number: P

Collection: Archives Library

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Lands of lost borders : a journey on the Silk Road

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2018

Author: Harris, Kate

Publisher: New York, NY : Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow

Edition: First U.S. edition

Call Number: G530 L36 H37

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Author: Harris, Kate

Edition: First U.S. edition

Publisher: New York, NY : Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow

Published Date: 2018

Physical Description: 305 pages : illustrations, map

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Travel; Women; Cycling; Asia

Abstract: As a teenager, Kate Harris realized that the career she most craved—that of a generalist explorer, equal parts swashbuckler and metaphysician—had gone extinct. From her small-town home in Ontario, it seemed as if Marco Polo, Magellan and their like had long ago mapped the whole earth. So she vowed to become a scientist and go to Mars. Well along this path, Harris set off by bicycle down a short section of the fabled Silk Road with her childhood friend Mel Yule. This trip was just a simulacrum of exploration, she thought, not the thing itself—a little adventure to pass the time until she could launch for outer space. But somewhere in between sneaking illegally across Tibet, studying the history of science and exploration at Oxford, and staring down a microscope for a doctorate at MIT, she realized that an explorer, in any day and age, is by definition the kind of person who refuses to live between the lines. Forget charting maps, naming peaks, leaving footprints on another planet: what she yearned for was the feeling of soaring completely out of bounds. And where she'd felt that most intensely was on a bicycle, on a bygone trading route. So Harris quit the laboratory and hit the Silk Road again with Yule, this time determined to bike it from beginning to end. Weaving adventure and deep reflection with the history of science and exploration, Lands of Lost Borders explores the nature of limits and the wildness of a world that, like the self and like the stars, can never be fully mapped. (from Kate Harris' website)

Contents: Marco made me do it: North America -- Roof of the world: Tibetan Plateau -- Natural history: England and New England -- Undercurrents: Black Sea -- The cold world awakens: Lesser Caucasus -- Angle of incidence: Greater Caucasus -- Borderlandia: Caspian Sea -- Wilderness/wasteland: Ustyurt Plateau and Aral Sea Basin -- The source of a river: Pamir Knot -- A mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam: Tarim Basin and Tibetan Plateau -- Road's end: Indo-Gangetic Plain and Greater Himalaya.