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Robert Penn

    January 1, 1967
    A Place to Cycle
    The Wrong Kind of Snow
    Slow Rise
    It's All About the Bike
    The Sky is Falling on Our Heads
    Technical Analysis for Beginners
    • Rob Penn travels the length and breadth of the Celtic fringe dressed in a kilt and clutching a blackthorn stick in order to become a Celtic poet on a quest to get to the bottom of his Celtic roots.

      The Sky is Falling on Our Heads
    • It's All About the Bike

      The Pursuit of Happiness on Two Wheels

      • 208 pages
      • 8 hours of reading
      4.0(157)Add rating

      Robert Penn has saddled up nearly every day of his adult life. He rides to get to work, to bathe in air and sunshine, to travel, to go shopping, and to stay sane. He's no Sunday pedal pusher. So when the time came for a new bike, he decided to pull out all the stops and build his dream machine. It's All About the Bike follows Penn's journey, but this book is more than the story of his hunt for two-wheeled perfection. En route, Penn brilliantly explores the culture, science, and history of the bicycle. From the United Kingdom to California, via Portland, Milan, and points in between, his trek follows the serpentine path of our love affair with cycling. On the way to building the perfect bike, Robert Penn brilliantly explains why we ride.

      It's All About the Bike
    • Slow Rise

      • 240 pages
      • 9 hours of reading
      3.9(68)Add rating

      'Charming, important . . . a journey of discovery' Telegraph Over the course of a year, Robert Penn learns how to plant, harvest, thresh and mill his own wheat, in order to bake bread for his family. In returning to this pre-industrial practice, he tells the fascinating story of our relationship with bread: from the domestication of wheat in the Fertile Crescent at the dawn of civilization, to the rise of mass-produced loaves and the resurgence in homebaking today. Gathering knowledge and wisdom from experts around the world - farmers on the banks of the Nile, harvesters in the American Midwest and Parisian boulangers - Penn reconnects the joy of making and eating bread with a deep appreciation for the skill and patience required to cultivate its key ingredient. This book is a celebration of the millennia-old craft of breadmaking, and how it is woven into the story of humanity. 'Compelling, vivid . . . Slow Rise will be welcomed by the new bread geeks' Spectator

      Slow Rise
    • The Wrong Kind of Snow

      • 400 pages
      • 14 hours of reading
      3.6(33)Add rating

      Rain gave us Inspector Morse and the sliding tackle. Fog gave us the Cat's Eye, Impressionism and chains on front doors. Wind brought a Protestant monarchy. Hail gave us the Norwich Union insurance company. Storms gave us the pencil, the lifeboat, the Norfolk Broads and the first weather forecast. And cold, grey days? Penicillin.In Britain, what isn't affected by the weather? Since the first chilly Roman sat on Hadrian's Wall and pulled his socks on before his sandals (yes, they're the culprits), British life and British weather have been inseparable.This is the story of a people forever caught out in the rain (or by the wrong kind of snow). But it's also the story of a country that knows how to appreciate a fine day. It's about an obsession with fresh air - and the thousands of ways we've devised to make the most of it. Because, beneath our restless skies, there's something only we in Britain, there's no such thing as a dull day.

      The Wrong Kind of Snow
    • Focusing on iconic bicycle brands, the narrative delves into the visionaries behind legendary two-wheeled creations. It traces the evolution of road biking in northern Italy and the origins of mountain biking in Marin County. Highlighting influential companies like Cannondale, Campagnolo, Shimano, and Specialized, the book provides insights into their contributions to bicycle design and culture. Special feature sections dedicated to the fifty most legendary brands enrich the exploration of this dynamic industry.

      The Racing Bicycle: Design, Function, Speed
    • Basiert auf der Kultfernsehserie "The Tribe". Gezwungen, aus ihrer Heimatstadt zu fliehen - und ihren Traum vom Errichten einer besseren Welt aus der Asche der alten aufzugeben - gehen die Mall Rats an Bord einer riskanten Entdeckungsreise in das Unbekannte. Beim Hinaustreiben auf den Ozean hätte kaum jemand die Gefahren vorhersehen können, die ihn bevorstehen würden. Welches Geheimnis umgibt die Jzhao Li? Werden sie die Rätsel von The Collective aufdecken? Ganz zu schweigen von den vielen Herausforderungen und Hindernissen, denen sie begegnen, während sie mit den Mächten der Mutter Natur kämpfen, mit unerwarteten Widersachern und gelegentlich sogar mit sich selbst. Werden sie sie meistern? Werden sie schließlich herausfinden, was mit ihren Freunden und Angehörigen passiert ist, die verschwunden sind? Und vor allen Dingen: Können sie eine neue Welt nach ihren eigenen Vorstellungen errichten - indem sie ihren Traum lebendig erhalten?

      The Tribe: Eine neue Welt
    • Ein Buch über das Glück des Holzhackens und über die heilende Kraft des Waldes. Eine sinnliche Reise, eine Rückbesinnung auf die Kraft der Natur und die Geschichte von einem Mann und seinem Baum. Robert Penn hat den perfekten Baum für sein Vorhaben gefunden. Eine Esche - nicht umsonst „Venus des Waldes“ genannt - 140 Jahre alt und wunderschön. Penn misst den Baum, klettert auf den Baum, verbringt eine Nacht am Fuße des Baums. Er fällt diese Esche und verwertet alles - bis hin zu den Spänen. Er reist durch England, nach Österreich und in die USA um die besten Stellmacher, Tischler und Drechsler zu besuchen. Aus seinem Baum werden Schüsseln gefertigt, Pfeile, ein Schlitten und Axtgriffe. Am Ende werden es 41 Dinge sein, die in sein Haus einziehen. Ihr Geruch und ihr Anblick erinnern ihn jeden Tag aufs Neue an den Wald.

      Der Mann, der einen Baum fällte und alles über Holz lernte