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Title: French Revolutions - Cycling the Tour de France
Writer: Tim Moore
Paperback: 288 pages (June 6, 2002)
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
ISBN: 0099433826
Category(ies): Sports, Hobbies & Games , Biography , Travel & Holiday
Self-confessed loafer Tim Moore, seduced by the speed and glamour of the biggest annual sporting event in the world, sets out to cycle the course of the Tour de France. All 3,630 km of it. Racing old men on butchers' bikes and being chased by cows, Moore soon resorts to standard race tactics - cheating and drugs - in a hilarious and moving tale of true adventure.
»Moore is a talented and funny writer, through a combination of slapstick, absurd simile and a healthy suspicion of French civilisation, gives us something to laugh at on almost every page.« (Daily Telegraph)
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