In this new book, he casts his anthropologist's eye on a subject close to his heart: cycling.
About the AuthorMarc Augé is an anthropologist and the former director of studies at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris. In Praise of the Bicycle, Hardcover - Marc Auge Here he reminds us that these memories are not just personal, but rooted in a time and a place, in a history that is shared with millions of others. Part memoir, part manifesto, Aug 's book celebrates cycling as a way of reconnecting with the places in which we live, and, ultimately, as a necessary alternative to our disconnected world. DescriptionWitness the French anthropologist as we have never seen him before.