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Title: The Lost Cyclist
Subtitle: The Epic Tale of an American Adventurer and His Mysterious Disappearance
Author: David Herlihy
Narrator: Paul Boehmer
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-17-13
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 10 votes
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
Publisher's Summary:
In the late 1880s, Frank Lenz of Pittsburgh, a renowned high-wheel racer and long-distance tourist, dreamed of cycling around the world. He finally got his chance by recasting himself as a champion of the downsized "safety-bicycle" with inflatable tires, the forerunner of the modern road bike that was about to become wildly popular. In the spring of 1892 he quit his accounting job and gamely set out west to cover 20,000 miles over three continents as a correspondent for Outing magazine. Two years later, after having survived countless near disasters and unimaginable hardships, he approached Europe for the final leg.
He never made it. His mysterious disappearance in eastern Turkey sparked an international outcry and compelled Outing to send William Sachtleben, another larger-than-life cyclist, on Lenzs trail. Bringing to light a wealth of information, Herlihys gripping narrative captures the soaring joys and constant dangers accompanying the bicycle adventurer in the days before paved roads and automobiles. This untold story culminates with Sachtlebens heroic effort to bring Lenzs accused murderers to justice, even as troubled Turkey teetered on the edge of collapse.
