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Author
Publisher
Carlton Books Limited
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Enjoy all the drama of the world's greatest cycling competition in this brand-new edition of Le Tour de France, which gives an authoritative account of each major era up to and including the 2019 Tour. Generally considered the greatest test of endurance in sports, the Tour de France covers more than 2,200 miles in just over three weeks, climbing high into both the Alps and Pyrenees before ending on Paris's iconic Champs-Élysées. This lavish, updated...
Author
Publisher
Nation Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
From its inception, the 1903 Tour de France was a colorful affair. Full of adventure, mishaps and audacious attempts at cheating, it was a race to be remembered. Cyclists of the time weren't enthusiastic about participating in this "heroic" race on roads more suited to hooves than wheels, with bikes weighing up to thirty-five pounds, on a single fixed gear, for three full weeks. Assembling enough riders for the race meant paying unemployed amateurs...
Author
Publisher
Little A
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"On June 29, 1919, one day after the Treaty of Versailles brought about the end of World War I, nearly seventy cyclists embarked on the thirteenth Tour de France. From Paris, the war-weary men rode down the western coast on a race that would trace the country's border, through seaside towns and mountains to the ghostly western front. Traversing a cratered postwar landscape, the cyclists faced near-impossible odds and the psychological scars of war....
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