Gironimo!: Riding the Very Terrible 1914 Tour of Italy - Couverture souple

Moore, Tim

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1681771284 ISBN 13 : 9781681771281

Editeur : Pegasus Books, 2019

Synopsis

Twelve years after Tim Moore toiled around the route of the Tour de France, he senses his achievement being undermined by the truth about "Horrid Lance." His rash response is to take on a fearsome challenge from an age of untarnished heroes: the notorious 1914 Giro d'Italia. History's most appalling bike race was an ordeal of 400-kilometer stages, filled with cataclysmic storms, roads strewn with nails, and even the loss of an eye by one competitor--and it was all on a diet of raw eggs and red wine.

Of the eighty-one riders who rolled out of Milan, only eight made it back. To truly capture the essence of what these riders endured a century ago, Tim acquires the ruined husk of a gearless, wooden-wheeled 1914 road bike, some maps, and an alarming period outfit topped off with a pair of blue-lensed welding goggles. As Moore rides up and over the Alps and then down to the Adriatic (with only wine corks for brakes), Gironimo! is an adventure that is by turns recklessly incompetent, bold, beautiful, and madly inspiring.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Tim Moore's writing has appeared in the Daily Telegraph, the Observer, the Sunday Times and Esquire. He is the author of French Revolutions and four other books. He lives in London.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pegasus Books
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1681771284
• ISBN 13: 9781681771281
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 368
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