The Beast, the Emperor and the Milkman: A Bone-Shaking Tour Through Cycling s Flemish Heartlands - Couverture rigide

Pearson, Harry

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ISBN 10 : 1472945042 ISBN 13 : 9781472945044

Editeur : Bloomsbury Sport, 2019

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Cycling is wildly popular all over Belgium, but in the northern, Dutch-speaking half of the country it is part of the psyche. Flanders is the size of East Anglia with population a tenth of that of Great Britain, yet this small corner of north-west Europe has produced eight winners of the Tour de France, five times as many professional riders as Italy or Spain.

Blending reportage, interviews, observation, biography and history and written with affectionate humour by a committed Belgophile, The Beast, the Emperor and the Milkman tells the story of Flanders' neurotic love affair with bike racing, from tough early heroes such as Jules Vanhevel - wounded by mortar fire in the First World War and leading the world championship road race until he collided with a cow - to latter-day ironmen such as Tom Boonen, three-times winner of the Tour of Flanders and owner of a pet donkey named Kamiel.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Harry Pearson has been shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year. Connie: The Marvellous Life of Learie Constantine was the 2018 MCC/Cricket Society Book of the Year. His book A Tall Man in a Low Land is the bestselling English language travelogue about Belgium.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Bloomsbury Sport
• Date d'édition: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1472945042
• ISBN 13: 9781472945044
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 272