Name: Tour de France 100 von Richard Moore
SKU: 9781408170960
Price: 45.99 EUR
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Tour de France 100 Zusammenfassung

Tour de France 100 Richard Moore

First staged in 1903, the Tour de France lasts three weeks every July and takes its c.200 competitors through over 3600km of varied terrain, including testing mountain stages. The race is broken into one-day 'stages', with the overall leader wearing the fabled yellow jersey. Tour de France 100 celebrates 110 years of the Tour and publishes in the run up to the 100th race. It captures key visual moments in its history, including heroes of the race, great rivalries, moments of high drama, accidents and scandals, all accompanied by Richard Moore's authoritative text that illuminates and expands upon the superb imagery.

Tour de France 100 Bewertungen

...this is a wonderful pictorial history of the race. The images are beautifully and imaginatively laid out, with a little under 250 large scale pages that capture the race in all its guises...Moore has a keen eye for the telling anecdote and provides an illuminating insight into the minds and personalities of the leading riders and the men behind this most spectacular of sporting events. * WheelSuckers.co.uk *
A new book captures the Tour's excitement, its brutality and its beguiling allure in a series of beautiful photographs * The Herald *
Richard Moore has put together a thorough and visually spectacular book they does great service to the race and our knowledge of it. * UK Cycle Sport *
This is the most beautiful book about cycling you will ever see! The photos are simply stunning...this book has a lot of photos I've never seen published anywhere before...If you don't buy this book you are missing out on what I believe to be the best cycling book ever published. * All Seasons Cyclist *
This is a beautiful photographic book that would grace any coffee table...each chapter is accompanied by glorious photographs depicting the race in all its glory and gore. * The Scotsman *
genuinely beautiful book * The Guardian *
Richard Moore's authoritative text...illuminates and expands upon the superb imagery. * The Guardian *

Über Richard Moore

Richard Moore is a journalist, author, and former racing cyclist. He has competed in the Tour of Langkawi and the PruTour and the 1998 Commonwealth Games. Moore has contributed to Rouleur magazine, Scotland on Sunday, The Herald, Sunday Herald, The Guardian and The Sunday Times and The Scotsman. His first book, a biography of the cyclist Robert Millar: In Search of Robert Millar won the Best Biography award at the 2008 British Sports Book Awards. His second, Heroes, Villains & Velodromes: Chris Hoy and Britain's Track Cycling Revolution, was published in June 2008. His latest book, The Dirtiest Race in History: Ben Johnson, Carl Lewis and the Olympic 100m Final, is also published by Bloomsbury.

Zusätzliche Informationen

Sku

GOR006498185

ISBN 13

9781408170960

ISBN 10

1408170965

Titel

Tour de France 100 Richard Moore

Autor

Richard Moore

Zustand

Gebraucht - Sehr Gut

Bindung

Gebundene Ausgabe

Verlag

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Datum

20130509

Anzahl der Seiten

224

Preise

N/A

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