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Le Tour: A History of the Tour de France
Geoffrey Wheatcroft
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Description for Le Tour: A History of the Tour de France
Paperback. The complete and critically acclaimed story of the Tour de France from its earliest days to Bradley Wiggins Num Pages: 432 pages, 16pp b-w plates. BIC Classification: 1DDF; WSB; WSQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 199 x 29. Weight in Grams: 320.
Geoffrey Wheatcroft's hugely entertaining and well researched history of the Tour de France is already established as the definitive account of cycling's greatest event. Since the book was last published in 2007, much has changed. Bradley Wiggins' historic victory in 2012 - the first Briton ever to secure the yellow jersey - brought him a knighthood and garnered more interest in the race than ever before. Yet the months after were dominated by an even bigger story, as Tour legend and seven-time winner Lance Armstrong was stripped of his titles and confessed on Oprah to doping in each of his ... Read more
Geoffrey Wheatcroft's hugely entertaining and well researched history of the Tour de France is already established as the definitive account of cycling's greatest event. Since the book was last published in 2007, much has changed. Bradley Wiggins' historic victory in 2012 - the first Briton ever to secure the yellow jersey - brought him a knighthood and garnered more interest in the race than ever before. Yet the months after were dominated by an even bigger story, as Tour legend and seven-time winner Lance Armstrong was stripped of his titles and confessed on Oprah to doping in each of his ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781471128943
SKU
V9781471128943
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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-40
About Geoffrey Wheatcroft
Geoffrey Wheatcroft is a journalist and historian, a former literary editor of the SPECTATOR and 'Londoner's Diary' editor of the EVENING STANDARD, whose book THE CONTROVERSY OF ZION won an American National Jewish Book Award.
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