Cyclogeography (14 page)
Authors: Jon Day
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I’m thankful to all at the
London Review of Books,
especially Joanna Biggs, Thomas Jones, Christian Lorentzen, Nicholas Richardson and Alice Spawls, and to Nikil Saval and
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, in which some of these ideas were first aired. Bill Chidley, Ben Day, Paul Fournel, Richard Long, Robert Macfarlane and Iain Sinclair were very generous, both with their time and with their thoughts.
I am especially grateful to Damian Le Bas, Jonathan Gharraie, Edmund Gordon, Brenda Herbert, William Kraemer, Olivia Laing, Jo Lennan and Thomas Marks, who were excellent and attentive readers.
Philippa and Anne Stanners, Humphrey and Celia Bourne, Tariq and Emma Goddard, James Purdon and Kristen Treen provided shelter and company. For translations and conversations, many thanks to Charlotte Higgins, Agostino Inguscio, Alex Niven, Stephen Ross and Derry Tomlinson, and to London’s couriers, who shared their stories. Thanks to Jacques Testard, who first commissioned this book, and to Kim Kremer and Karen Lockney, who finished it off. Peter Straus is a fine and attentive agent to whom I am immensely grateful. For teaching me to ride, I thank my family. Most of all I thank Natalya.
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