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The First Tour de France by Peter Cossins 2017 Unabridged CD 9781478950165
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Length
- Unabridged
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- France
- ISBN
- 9781478950165
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Format
- Compact Disc
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- First Tour De France : Sixty Cyclists and Nineteen Days of Daring on the Road to Paris
- Publisher
- Public Affairs
- Genre
- Sports & Recreation
- Topic
- Cycling, History
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The first Tour De France was a far cry from the polished international sporting event we see on television today. Organized by the financially free falling L'Auto magazine, the desperate editors thought that organizing a grand cycling tour was the only thing that could save their publication. But in 1903, cyclists weren't enthusiastic about what was pitched to them as a heroic race through roads more suited to hooves than wheels, with bikes weighing up to forty-four pounds, on a single fixed gear, for three full weeks. Assembling enough riders for the race meant bribing unemployed laborers from the suburbs of Paris, including a butcher, a blacksmith, a chimney sweep, and a wrestler. Through these characters backstories, Cossins paints a nuanced portrait of France in the early 1900's. The race itself is packed with mishaps and adventure-in part due to the fact that water was scarce at the time, so the men drank wine and beer throughout, often keeling over from their bicycles in a drunken stupor. There was no indication that a ramshackle cycling pack would draw crowds to throng France's rutted roads and cheer the first Tour heroes. But they did, and cycling would never be the same again.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Public Affairs
ISBN-10
1478950161
ISBN-13
9781478950165
eBay Product ID (ePID)
237793517
Product Key Features
Book Title
First Tour De France : Sixty Cyclists and Nineteen Days of Daring on the Road to Paris
Topic
Cycling, History
Publication Year
2017
Language
English
Genre
Sports & Recreation
Format
Compact Disc
Dimensions
Item Length
5.7in
Item Width
5.2in
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Intended Audience
Trade
Number of Volumes
9 Vols.
Edition Description
Unabridged Edition
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