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Butcher, Blacksmith, Acrobat, Sweep

- The Tale of the First Tour de France
Af: Peter Cossins Engelsk Paperback

Butcher, Blacksmith, Acrobat, Sweep

- The Tale of the First Tour de France
Af: Peter Cossins Engelsk Paperback
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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 order to smuggle him into France to clean chimneys as a teenager, Hippolyte Aucouturier with his trademark handlebar moustache, and amateurs like Jean Dargassies, a blacksmith who had never raced before.

Would this ramshackle pack of cyclists draw crowds to throng France''s rutted roads and cheer the first Tour heroes? Surprisingly it did, and, all thanks to a marketing ruse dreamed up to revive struggling newspaper L''Auto, cycling would never be the same again. Peter Cossins takes us through the inaugural Tour de France, painting a nuanced portrait of France in the early 1900s, to see where the greatest sporting event of all began.

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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 order to smuggle him into France to clean chimneys as a teenager, Hippolyte Aucouturier with his trademark handlebar moustache, and amateurs like Jean Dargassies, a blacksmith who had never raced before.

Would this ramshackle pack of cyclists draw crowds to throng France''s rutted roads and cheer the first Tour heroes? Surprisingly it did, and, all thanks to a marketing ruse dreamed up to revive struggling newspaper L''Auto, cycling would never be the same again. Peter Cossins takes us through the inaugural Tour de France, painting a nuanced portrait of France in the early 1900s, to see where the greatest sporting event of all began.

Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 384
ISBN-13: 9780224100663
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 0224100661
Kategori: 1900 til 1910
Udg. Dato: 7 jun 2018
Længde: 24mm
Bredde: 197mm
Højde: 128mm
Forlag: Vintage Publishing
Oplagsdato: 7 jun 2018
Forfatter(e): Peter Cossins
Forfatter(e) Peter Cossins


Kategori 1900 til 1910


ISBN-13 9780224100663


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 384


Udgave


Længde 24mm


Bredde 197mm


Højde 128mm


Udg. Dato 7 jun 2018


Oplagsdato 7 jun 2018


Forlag Vintage Publishing

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