Butcher, Blacksmith, Acrobat, Sweep: The Tale of the First Tour de France [Audiobook] download free by Peter Cossins
- Listen audiobook: Butcher, Blacksmith, Acrobat, Sweep: The Tale of the First Tour de France
- Author: Peter Cossins
- Release date: 2018/4/28
- Publisher: VINTAGE PUBLISHING
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Travel and Holiday Guides
- ISBN: 9780224100663
- Rating: 7.65 of 10
- Votes: 730
- Review by: Rayne Lozano
- Review rating: 7.16 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/3
- Duration: 4H30M19S in 256 kbps (73.6 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-18
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA Lossless, MPC, MP3, FLAC, MPEG4, WAV, WMA (compression EML, TAR.Z, TAR.7Z, RAR, CBZ, CBC, ZIP)
- Total pages original book: 368
- Includes a PDF summary of 31 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 22M24S (6.2 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: The first Tour de France in 1903 was a colourful affair full of adventure, mishaps and audacious attempts at cheating. Its riders included characters like Maurice Garin, an Italian-born Frenchman, said to have been swapped for a round of cheese by his parents in order to smuggle him into France to clean chimneys as a teenager, Hippolyte Aucouturier with his trademark handlebar moustache, and amateurs like Jean Dargassies, a blacksmith who had never raced before. Would this ramshackle pack of cyclists draw crowds to throng France's rutted roads and cheer the first Tour heroes? Surprisingly it did, and, all thanks to a marketing ruse dreamed up to revive struggling newspaper L'Auto, cycling would never be the same again. Peter Cossins takes us through the inaugural Tour de France, painting a nuanced portrait of France in the early 1900s, to see where the greatest sporting event of all began.
- Other categories, genre or collection: 20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000, Guidebooks, Cycling, European History, Sports Books, Events & Organisations, Social & Cultural History
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 13.19 USD
- Dimensions: 129x198x23mm
- Weight: 267g
- Printed by: YELLOW JERSEY PRESS
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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