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100 1  Moore, Tim,|d1964-|eauthor. 
245 14 The cyclist who went out in the cold :|badventures riding 
       the Iron Curtain /|cTim Moore. 
250    First Pegasus Books hardcover edition 
264  1 New York ;|aLondon :|bPegasus Books,|c2017. 
264  4 |c©2017 
300    340 pages :|billustrations, maps ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
336    still image|bsti|2rdacontent 
336    cartographic image|bcri|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
520    Not content with tackling the Italian Alps or the route of
       the Tour de France, Tim Moore sets out to scale a new peak
       of rash over-ambition: 6,000 mile route of the old Iron 
       Curtain on a tiny-wheeled, two-geared East German shopping
       bike.Asking for trouble and getting it, Moore sets off 
       from the northernmost Norwegian-Russian border at the 
       Arctic winter's brutal height, bullying his plucky MIFA 
       900 through the endless sub-zero desolation of snowbound 
       Finland. Sleeping in bank vaults, imperial palaces and 
       unreconstructed Soviet youth hostels, battling vodka-
       breathed Russian hostility, Romanian landslides and a diet
       of dumplings, Moore and his 'so-small bicycle' are 
       sustained by the kindness of reindeer farmers and Serbian 
       rock gods, plus a shameful addiction to Magic Man energy 
       drink. Haunted throughout by the border detritus of 
       watchtowers and rusted razor wire, Moore reflects on the 
       curdling of the Communist dream, and the memories of a 
       Cold War generation reared on the fear of apocalypse--at a
       time of renewed East-West tension. After three months, 
       twenty countries and a fifty-eight degree jaunt up the 
       thermostat, man and bike finally wobble up to a Black Sea 
       beach in Bulgaria, older and wiser, but mainly older. 
600 10 Moore, Tim,|d1964-|xTravel|zCommunist countries. 
650  0 Bicycle touring|zCommunist countries. 
650  7 HISTORY / Europe.|2bisacsh 
650  7 HUMOR / Sports.|2bisacsh 
650  7 SPORTS & RECREATION / Cycling.|2bisacsh 
650  7 SPORTS & RECREATION / History.|2bisacsh 
651  0 Communist countries|xDescription and travel. 
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