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The Unknown Tour de France: The Many Faces of the World's Greatest Bicycle Race (Cycling Resources Book.) | 
 enlarge | Author: Les Woodland
Publisher: Cycle Publishing
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 182130
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 0.6
ISBN: 1892495260
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.620944
EAN: 9781892495266
ASIN: 1892495260
Publication Date: April 1, 2000
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Product Description
Just released August 2005, this new edition of the book is a fascinating account of what goes on behind the scenes in the Tour de France. Going back to the very first Tour and uip-to-date right up to the most recent edition, The Unknown Tour de France gives colorful accounts of the Tour, its organizers, and its participants.
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 The Unknown Tour de France January 24, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The second Tour de France, held in 1904, was ripped apart by a toxic combination of rampant cheating by the riders and rioting and sabotage by partisan spectators. The result was a decision by the French cycling federation to disqualify several of the riders, including the winner, Maurice Garin. Garin, who was also the winner of the first Tour, maintained a steady insistence that he was innocent and that he was the victim of a grave injustice.
Les Woodland set out to learn more about Garin and journeyed to Garin's hometown and found an old friend of his. Woodland found that Garin's public stance regarding the 1904 Tour was quite different from what he told his friends in private.
The story of Garin would be enough reason for any Tour fan to buy this book. But that is just the appetizer. Each chapter looks at some aspect of the Tour from Woodland's always-original point of view. Among other subjects he takes on the Tour's origins, the first mountain stages, cheating, interesting riders of past Tours and the bikes of the early Tour. In keeping with the book's title, almost all are subjects that aren't dealt with in other cycling books, making it particularly enlightening and enjoyable.
Time spent with a Les Woodland cycling book is always time well spent and this book is no exception. I highly recommend it to even the most knowledgeable cycle racing fan. It's a good, fun read.
-Bill McGann, author of "The Story of the Tour de France: How a Newspaper Promotion Became the Greatest Sporting Event in the World".
 The history of the Tour at a Break-away pace! January 3, 2003
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
I loved this book! I've always been a history nut and a cyclist, so this book was perfect. Lots of black & white photos from the old days and great stories from an insider. Makes me want to go to France to see the greatest sporting event in the world more than ever now. I just wish the book was longer, or a sequel is published soon.
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