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The first Tour de France : sixty cyclists and nineteen days of daring on the road to Paris, Peter Cossins
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- 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.--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- ix, 358 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781568589848
- Label
- The first Tour de France : sixty cyclists and nineteen days of daring on the road to Paris
- Title
- The first Tour de France
- Title remainder
- sixty cyclists and nineteen days of daring on the road to Paris
- Statement of responsibility
- Peter Cossins
- Language
- eng
- 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.--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
- BTCTA
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- Cossins, Peter
- Dewey number
- 796.620944
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- plates
- photographs
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- GV1049.2.T68
- LC item number
- C67 2017
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Tour de France (Bicycle race)
- Tour de France (Bicycle race)
- Bicycle racing
- Bicycle racing
- Bicycle racing
- Label
- The first Tour de France : sixty cyclists and nineteen days of daring on the road to Paris, Peter Cossins
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-342) and index
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- volume
- Carrier category code
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- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
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- text
- still image
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- Content type MARC source
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- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- ix, 358 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781568589848
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- Other physical details
- illustrations, photographs
- System control number
- (OCoLC)ocn960294581
- Label
- The first Tour de France : sixty cyclists and nineteen days of daring on the road to Paris, Peter Cossins
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-342) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type code
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- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
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- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- ix, 358 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781568589848
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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- Other physical details
- illustrations, photographs
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