If you love cycling of all kinds (especially road), this book is truly one of the best. Wilcockson not only loves and knows cycling, he can write about it with a charming descriptive and stylistic voice. I've read nearly every book published in the last ten years on cycling and this is one of, if not the, very best. I can't wait for Wilcockson's next collection of his cycling tales.

Review of "John Wilcockson's World of Cycling" from Boulder Planet, Colorado

by Rob Coppolillo

Thirty Tours de France sounds like a long career in cycling, but Boulderite and world-renowned journalist John Wilcockson finds his best form in his sixth and latest book, John Wilcockson's World of Cycling. On the verge of another hectic season of travel and race coverage, the prolific writer will cover his thirtieth Tour this summer and has reported on every major road cycling event, mountain biking and track racing in a career dating from the mid-Sixties. The English-born Wilcockson was a successful amateur cyclist as a young man, then found a comfortable career in civil engineering. When he chose to pursue a life covering bike racing, he says, "My family was shocked, they thought I was crazy! I had prospects of a good career in engineering, but I can't say I've had a dull day in 30 years." Whatever prospects he left in engineering, he has seems to have equaled in his writing. He has covered cycling for the London Times, the Sunday Times in London, Winning, several other English publications and now co-owns a magazine based in Boulder, VeloNews. Sports journalism, as a genre, sometimes conceals the extent of a writer's quality. With deadlines, space constraints and a narrower audience, the final product loses a measure of breadth. Wilcockson's World of Cycling will surprise his fans expecting mere reportage. The work is as much travel writing as journalism, showcasing the depth of Wilcockson's talent and his keen eye for detail. "I'm a travel buff in many ways...I walk around places to see more than meets the eye. That's one of the fun things about cycling, it's not a stadium sport. The geography, the climate, these guys are racing in the elements," he explains. Early in the book, in a charming description of the 1969 Tour of Sardinia, we are treated to the particulars of the bicycle race, but the event doesn't end at the finish line. As Wilcockson departs the island on a ferry, he recalls, "...a black-clad mamma...was arguing-as only Italians can...Then the scene rapidly became quiet, dark and deserted...the final zephyr blowing the dockside clean, sending an odd newspaper and dust swirling into the cold, black water." World of Cycling covers nearly every facet of bicycle racing, from the Olympic road race, to the Tour de France, a six-day track event and mountain bike world championships. Loyal Wilcockson readers will devour his authoritative race accounts, as usual, but discover widely expanded coverage. Any cycling fan remembers five-time Tour de France champion, Spaniard Miguel Indurain falling apart in 1996 Tour and it's here, only more of it, clearly chronicled kilometer by kilometer! Racers will also find lesser-known stories like Robert Millar's heart-breaking defeat in the 1985 Tour of Spain. The Scotsman Millar lost not because he faltered physically, but through the reproachable collusion of the Spanish teams in the race. No other English speaking journalist, and few in Europe, can capture and explain the subtlety and nuance of a bike race like Wilcockson. World of Cycling preserves the excitement, but adds details that might not otherwise escape the editor's cut of a race report. "I think for most journalists writing about cycling, it's a job, not a passion," he alleges. "It's more like writing about football or baseball in this country." His awareness of the nearly unseen forces at play in a race reveals Wilcockson's knowledge and love of the sport. In "Home is Our Hero," an account of the 1985 Nissan International Cycling Classic in Ireland, Wilcockson poetically describes the victory of native Sean Kelly, transporting readers to the lush, rural countryside, "The break's lead mounted...to 90 seconds at pretty Clonegall, where a farmer with a small white dog tucked inside his jacket were among the spectators watching the racers pour over a stone, hump-backed bridge spanning a fast-flowing salmon stream." There is no more respected cycling journalist working today, and with John Wilcockson's World of Cycling, Wilcockson leaves the realm of mere sport to script his name alongside the best adventure travel writers of our time like Theroux, Cahill and Krakauer. His unequaled descriptions of bicycle racing, coupled with his acute sense of place and sharp eye, make this a captivating read for not only cycling fans, but travelers, armchair adventurers and sports fans alike.

It is a marvelous story and provides, among other things, a down-to-earth verbal "virtual photo" of times in the earlier 20th century in the locales where your mother had lived. Although she had her trials throughout life, she didn't let them wear her down. In that sense, she reminds me of my own mother, another remarkable woman. Thank you, for presenting me with the opportunity to read this story.

The book is composed of Edna's verbatim auto biography as spoken to her son, John, supplemented by his explanations for the reader and additional chapters following the interview.

However, it is not just a simple biography but an exposé of the life of a young woman in the first half of the 20th century. Her life was generally labor, seven days a week and almost 24 hours a day: cleaning, cooking, cleaning, caring, cleaning, and more. The book also shows how the inventions of the 20th century eased the woman's life but not as rapidly as one might think.

Edna's English, resounding with a Welsh lilt, takes the reader back to rural Wales, before entering the modern world. It is a book that you cannot put down. You will learn some but overall the book provides a 'Good Read."

This hilarious screen play is great for any Monty Python fan. I would reccomend buying the movie before you get the screen play but if you don't feel thats necessary then there won't be anyone to stop you. My favorite parts are the musical descriptions. "Possibly, atmospheric music playing in background." Even though I had already memorized the whole Monty Python and the Holy Grail movie this still entertained me for hours and hours.

Yes! Finally! The screenplay! Without all those colour pages! Without all of those annoying photographs! Without all of that jettisoned material! Without the accountants statements! Without any of that boring old "extra" rubbish!

It's just the screenplay.Or is it? Not exactly. Of course to the new Python fan,this is sold gold treasure.( Rightly so! ) So newbies...purchase away,without question!

BUT....what's in it for the jaded old "been there,seen that,tired of the tumultuous deluge of boring reprints",Monty Python fans? Well....firstly it has a NEW Cover!( Including four(!) reviews from some fine media sources! ).Secondly...it includes the full script to the recently re-edited in...."Missing 24 Seconds"! Thirdly....it has some alternate photos from the film! And perhaps most collectable of all....PAGE 75! Not just any Page 75,mind you. This Page 75 has an error! It has a full page photo of.....STAND INS! Yes,Brother Maynard and his friend,Eric Idle & Michael Palin,are missing,but a photo of their stand-ins IS included! How's THAT for a bargain?

Whether using it to re-enact the film with your Insurance Salesman,or beating the neighbour's terrier,or simply using it to balance that wobbly coffee table in your foyer; This is the book for you!

What can I say that can do justice to this book? It is EXCELLENT and I HIGHLY recommend it to everyone. I purchased this book in December and read it 3 times within 2 months. I could not put it down. I read it through the 1st time highlighting here and there as I went. The 2nd time I read more intently and highlighted still more. The 3rd time I went through and took notes on a legal pad. I plan to re-read it again shortly. It's just a wonderful, inspirational book that speaks to you. It makes you want to to cry out (just as in the book).....JUST GIVE ME MORE OF JESUS!!!..Buy it today. You won't be disappointed.

Drawing from the Gospel of John, Anne Graham Lotz gives us an interesting and compelling book on knowing Jesus intimately. This is a wonderful book. Please buy it today. Also recommended: •• THE PRAYER OF HANNAH •• by Kenn Gividen

As a novice, I found this book very helpful. It provides very concrete guidance in meditation. And it also provides useful information on other aspects of Buddhism presented in a very easy to read and understandable manner. I highly recommend this book for meditation novices.

This book is a very good and comprehensive book about the techniques and reasons behind buddhist meditation. Technical details about advanced meditation and the relation that meditation has to other aspects of Buddhism may be advanced for early practicioners, but there is plenty of good advice for beginners as well. I would imagine that this book is ideal for Buddhists of any type that are looking for specific instructions on how to meditate.

this is what i expect from Louis Cha, an involving storyline and lots of kung fu stuff that i can't understand but still enjoy...
this book has both.
it's a great book, but i wish it were longer, cuz when i get into a book i don't want it to end. even "outlaws of the marsh"(2000+ pages) seems short when you're done reading it.

here are some recommendations.
"Musashi"
"Taiko"
"Outlaws of the Marsh"
& "The Deluge"

I bought a copy of this book because I had read one of Graham's sales columns in a trade magazine. I was impressed with his column and even more impressed with the book.
It's filled with practical advice on how to get out and get moving. No fluffy stuff. No acronyms or gimmicky-type jargon. Just ideas and motivation that got me going again.
It's not the type of book that you'll read cover to cover. Because every page has a different item, you'll want to skip around.
I'd recommend it for salespeople (and for salespeople to give to their managers!)

The Franconia, New Hampshire, farm of the American poet Robert Frost was turned into a museum and center for poetry and the arts in 1976. From that time, "The Frost Place" has been annual event wherein an emerging poet has been invited to spend the summer living in the house where Frost once lived and wrote some of his greatest poetry. The Breath Of Parted Lips: Voices From The Robert Frost Place, Volume One is a remarkable anthology of twenty-four poets, each of whom won that honor of a summer's residency and document the success of the original concept as a means of generating outstanding poetry while nurturing the poet's muse in the rooms and views that were once the inspiration of the great Robert Frost. Poem At 40: Windwashed--as if standing next to the highway,/a truck long as the century sweeping by,/all things at last bent in the same direction./An opening, as if all/the clothes my ancestors ever wore/dry on lines in my body:/wind-whipped, parallel with the ground,/some sleeves sharing a single clothespin/so that they seem to clasp hands,/seem to hold on.//And now that I can see/up the old women's dresses,/there's nothing but a filtered light./And now that their men's smoky breath/has traversed the earth,/it has nothing to do with them./And now that awkward, fat tears of rain/slap the window screen,/now that I'm naked too,/cupping my genitals, tracing with a pencil/the blue vein between my collar bone and breast,/I'll go to sleep when I'm told.

This is one of the first books I've read about UFOs. This book contains a summary of all the major UFO theories. It contains information by Zacharia Sitchin(12th Planet), Robert Temple(Sirius Mystery), Frank Stranges(Val Thor), and many others. In all it's a basic overview of the sunject of UFOlogy-Ancient Astronaut Theory, Abduction, Sightings, Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind, etc. A must read!!!

Can the computers think? NO, that's the answer the authors of this great book show us. Using the philosophy of Ryle and Wittgenstein, they show how a mistake of using words can create false problems... The "Chinese Room", an example from Searle, shows how the test of Turing fails in demonstrate the thinking of a computer. With a ordinary language, and a great sense of humor, the authors gave us a good exemple how we must do philosophy. Congratulations.