Le Tour: A History of the Tour de France by Geoffrey Wheatcroft

Le Tour: A History of the Tour de France

Geoffrey Wheatcroft

389 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history sports adventurous inspiring reflective slow-paced
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When Henri Desgrange began a new bicycle road race in 1903, he saw it as little more than a temporary publicity stunt to promote his newspaper. The sixty cyclists who left Paris to ride through the night to Lyons that first July had little idea th...

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