Bicycling Along the World's Most Exceptional Routes.GV1044 2004-022246 0-7892-0846-6 Bicycling along the world's most exceptional routes. Penn, Rob. Abbeville Press, [c]2005 160 p. $29.95 This book presents 25 exceptional bicycle rides throughout the world--not only in North and South America South America, fourth largest continent (1991 est. pop. 299,150,000), c.6,880,000 sq mi (17,819,000 sq km), the southern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. and Europe but also Nepal/Tibet, Kazakhstan/Kyrgyzstan, Russia, India, Morocco Morocco, country, Africa Morocco (mərŏk`ō), officially Kingdom of Morocco, kingdom (2005 est. pop. 32,726,000), 171,834 sq mi (445,050 sq km), NW Africa. , and Iceland, among other locations. Routes are designed to require seven to fourteen days, and each route is rated on a scale from easy to strenuous stren·u·ous adj. 1. Requiring great effort, energy, or exertion: a strenuous task. 2. Vigorously active; energetic or zealous. . For example, a strenuous route that includes Lhasa and Kathmandu is 506 miles, 95% of which is dirt roads dirt road n (US) → camino sin firme dirt road n → chemin non macadamisé or non revêtu dirt road dirt n at 13,000 feet. Other routes offer easy to moderate rides with emphasis on sight seeing, stops at pubs and restaurants, and overnights at comfortable inns. The book is full of wonderful, color photographs; the route maps are meager mea·ger also mea·gre adj. 1. Deficient in quantity, fullness, or extent; scanty. 2. Deficient in richness, fertility, or vigor; feeble: the meager soil of an eroded plain. 3. . Each route lists the name of a travel company prepared to make arrangements for that particular ride. |
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