Around the World on Two Wheels: Annie Londonderry's Extraordinary Ride, by Needham's own Peter Zheutlin, tells the astounding story of Peter's great grand-aunt, who decides to counter a bet that no woman could ride around the world on a bike. 

Annie, a Jewish immigrant and mother of three living in a Boston tenement in 1894, takes her 42 lb. bicycle, a revolver and a change of underwear, turns the world on its ear and becomes a symbol of sexual equality. 

Peter, an avid cyclist himself, is a freelance journalist whose work appears regularly in the Boston Globe and Christian Science Monitor.  Peter's website is http://www.annielondonderry.com/contact.html

You can read this wonderful tale and agree with the 7 five starred reviews in Amazon.  One reader calls it the "best biography he's ever read."