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The hum of the wheels the roar of the crowd : five cycling Shaw brothers from Woolloomooloo

Author :  Harry Irwin

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Country
Australia
Publisher
Australian Scholarly Publishing, Australia
ISBN 9781925801521
Format PaperBack
Language English
Year of Publication 2019
Bib. Info x, 219 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm.
Categories DU - Oceania (South Seas)
Product Weight 375 gms.
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The bicycle craze gripped Australia in the 1880s and 1890s and early 1900s. Bicycle clubs proliferated and bicycle racing caught the public's attention as young men sought fellowship, camaraderie, glory and even riches in amateur and professional competition. Harry Irwin explores the racing culture of the time in fascinating detail - the penny farthings and safety bicycles, tracks and champions, spectacles and carnivals; the prizes held out to racers, the risks, challenges, match racing and gambling; and the social life of the racers. Setting the scene are the stories of the five prominent and plucky Shaw brothers, born and bred in working-class Woolloomooloo, and how they enjoyed and endured the ups and downs of track and road racing in cities and country towns and over long distances in New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria. Shaw, William Nathaniel. | Shaw, Samuel Robinson. | Shaw, Henry Tait. | Shaw, Frederick Ewart. | Shaw, Thomas John. | Shaw family. | Bicycle racing -- Australia -- History. | Cyclists -- New South Wales -- Woolloomooloo -- Biography. | Australian

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