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Cossins, Peter.
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Tour de France (Bicycle race) (1903 : France)
Tour de France (Bicycle race) -- History.
Bicycle racing -- France -- History.
Endurance sports -- France.
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Cossins, Peter.
Tour de France (Bicycle race) (1903 : France)
Tour de France (Bicycle race) -- History.
Bicycle racing -- France -- History.
Endurance sports -- France.
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The first
Tour
de
France
: sixty cyclists and nineteen days of daring on the road to Paris / Peter Cossins.
by
Cossins, Peter.
Nation Books, c2017.
Call #:
796.620944 C836f
Subjects
Tour
de
France
(
Bicycle
race
) (
1903
:
France
)
Tour
de
France
(
Bicycle
race
) -- History.
Bicycle
racing --
France
-- History.
Endurance sports --
France
.
ISBN:
9781568589848 (hc., Nation Books USA ed.)
9780224100656 (hc., Yellow Jersey Press UK ed.)
Alternate title:
Butcher, blacksmith, acrobat, sweep : the tale of the first
Tour
de
France
.
Description:
ix, 358 p., [8] p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Notes:
Published in the United Kingdom as Butcher, blacksmith, acrobat, sweep : the tale of the first
Tour
de
France
by Yellow Jersey Press in 2017.
[Library owns both variations of title and BOTH are on this record. Patron's receipt may show title discrepancy.]
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-342) and index.
Summary:
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.--From publisher.
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