French Revolutions: Cycling the Tour de France
French Revolutions: Cycling the Tour de France - Image 2
  1. French Revolutions: Cycling the Tour de France
  2. French Revolutions: Cycling the Tour de France - Image 2

French Revolutions: Cycling the Tour de France

5,00 €

by Tim Moore

French Revolutions is Tim Moore’s funniest book to date. It is also one of the funniest sports books ever written.

 

 

 

1 in stock

Add to wishlist
Categories: , , Tags: , , , , ,

Description

Seduced by the speed and glamour of the biggest annual sporting event in the world, and determined to tackle the most fearsome physical challenge outside classical mythology, Moore, the ultimate amateur, attempts to complete all 3,630km of the 2000 Tour in the weeks before the professionals set off.

Battling it out with the old men on butchers’ bikes across the plains of Aquitaine and pursued by cattle over Europe’s second highest road, Moore soon finds himself resorting to narcotic assistance, systematic overeating and waxed legs before summoning a support vehicle staffed by cruelly sceptical family and friends. Accounts of his suffering and chicanery, and those encountered in the race’s epic history, are interwoven through a look at rural France busy tarting itself up for those 15 seconds of fame as the Tour careers through at 50kph. An heroic depiction of an inadequate man’s attempt to achieve the unachievable, Moore’s Tour is a tale of calorific excess, ludicrous clothing and intimate discomfort.

Related products

  • In the Heart of the Amazon Forest -70% Off
    Add to wishlist
    Add to cart

    In the Heart of the Amazon Forest

    Original price was: 2,00 €.Current price is: 0,60 €.

    Penguin Great Journeys

    by Henry Walter Bates

    One of the most impressive of all Victorian scientists but also a marvelous writer account of his years in the upper reaches of the Amazon is almost too good to be true …

    Add to cart
  • Raven #1: Blood Eye -70% Off
    Add to wishlist
    Add to cart

    Raven #1: Blood Eye

    Original price was: 5,00 €.Current price is: 1,50 €.

    by Giles Kristian

    The first book in a thrilling Viking trilogy that launched the career of acclaimed historical novelist Giles Kristian – who’s now confronting the tumult and devastation of the English Civil War in The Bleeding Land…

    Add to cart
  • His Dark Materials #2: The Subtle Knife -70% Off
    Add to wishlist
    Add to cart

    His Dark Materials #2: The Subtle Knife

    Original price was: 6,00 €.Current price is: 1,80 €.

    by Philip Pullman

    Will is twelve years old and he’s just killed a man. Now he’s on his own, on the run, determined to discover the truth about his father disappearance.

    Then Will steps through a window in the air into another world, and finds himself with a companion – a strange, savage little girl called Lyra. Like Will, she has a mission which she intends to carry out at all costs.

     

    Add to cart
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer -70% Off
    Add to wishlist
    Add to cart

    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

    Original price was: 4,00 €.Current price is: 1,20 €.

    Adventures of Tom and Huck #1

    by Mark Twain

    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer revolves around the youthful adventures of the novel’s schoolboy protagonist, Thomas Sawyer, whose reputation precedes him for causing mischief and strife.

    Add to cart