Butcher, Blacksmith, Acrobat, Sweep
The Tale of the First Tour de France
$38.66
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
15 June 2018
Summary
Told for the first time, the full story behind the creation of the Tour de France and the remarkable first edition of the race in 1903.
From the winner of the Telegraph Sports Book Awards Cycling Book of the Year 2018
The first Tour de France in 1903 was a colourful affair full of adventure, mishaps and audacious attempts at cheating. Its riders included characters like Maurice Garin, an Italian-born Frenchman, said to have been swapped for a round of cheese by his parents in …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780224100663 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0224100661 |
| Author: | Peter Cossins |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Yellow Jersey Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 15 June 2018 |
| Weight: | 270g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 24mm |
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Essential…The First Tour de France takes you back to the race itself. Cossins produces a deeply researched and detailed description of the race that toggles between background information on the race’s organization and the individual stages, with long stretches of real-time-style stage reporting one chapter at a time.The effect of this, especially the latter, is soaring * Podium Cafe *Enthralling… Full of outlandish characters and ripping yarns, it makes for a cracking good read * Bikes Etc *
About The Author
Peter Cossins
First drawn into the sport while a student in Spain in the mid-1980s, Peter Cossins has been writing about cycling since 1993, contributing principally to Cycling Weekly, Cycle Sport and Procycling. The Monuments, his history of cycling’s five greatest one-day Classic races, was published in 2014, followed in 2015 by Alpe d’Huez, an appraisal of cycling’s greatest climb. For Yellow Jersey Press he has written the definitive account of the first ever Tour de France, Butcher, Blacksmith, Acrobat, Sweep the also the enlightening book on cycling tactics, Full Gas. He lives in the Ari ge in the heart of the French Pyrenees.
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