Auteur: James Charles Pope

Charles James Pope was born in 1879 in Hammersmith, London, and was part of the generation of cyclists who cycled in a golden era, the time of pioneer cycling writer Wayfarer and of the Cycle Club. His diaries cover the 1920s and 1930s and beautifully describe the adventures of the brothers » annual holidays and short breaks – each spent cycling from one destination to the next whilst stopping at various established cycling watering holes for a glass or two of bass. The cycling diaries of Charles Pope have been rediscovered by « diaries detective » and antiques dealer Shaun Sewell. Shaun »s previous finds include what became the publishing success stories Tommy »s War, being the illustrated Great War journals of a Glaswegian shipping clerk (Harper Press), and its companion volume Tommy »s Peace (Mainstream); the Sunday Times bestselling The Real Dad »s Army Diaries of Col. Rodney Foster (Viking); and the recent Three Men and a Bradshaw: An Original Victorian Travel Journal by John George Freeman (Random House Books).