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Book Title: French Revolutions: Cycling the Tour de France Loaded: 1591 times Reader ratings: 7.6 The author of the book: Tim Moore Edition: Vintage Date of issue: June 6th 2002 ISBN: 0099433826 ISBN 13: 9780099433828 Language: English Format files: PDF The size of the: 7.92 MB City - Country: No data |
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I'm not quite sure how you prepare for biking 3000 km of the Tour de France route by running a couple of times and heading out on the new bike a couple of times. But somehow Moore pulled it off.
And he doesn't pull any punches with the descriptions. Wanna know how you'd feel after biking just over 254 km in a day, arrive in the town of Troyes in the night only to find there's not a hotel room in the entire town, but your wife, calling to France from England for you found one in a city 13-22 km away, so off you go again on your bike, finding your feeble bike lights don't cut it in the rural landscape? He writes:
"I was relieved to turn off the N19, but not for very long. The trees rose up about me and blocked off the moon; if the roads hadn't been almost dead straight I'd never have made it. I could barely make out the fingerposts at all and, when I did, the only way to read them was to shin up the pole and hold my flashing light an inch away from the lettering. An owl hooted. I ran over something pulpy. There were other sounds. I hadn't seen any signs of life for an eon. The suggestion that somewhere in this wooded wilderness lay a Holiday Inn was an outrage against logic. Wolves--certainly; vagrant lunatics--odds-on; a solitary cleated foot emerging from recently disturbed soil--well, the night was young."
There's another great description of him sitting to a meal after a day of biking, muddied and worn, bits of dead wasps and dried skin falling off his face into his half eaten pasta that was a fantastic bit...
Chapeau, Tim Moore, Chapeau, indeed!
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Tim Moore is a British travel writer and humorist. He was educated at Latymer Upper School in Hammersmith. In addition to his seven published travelogues to date, his writings have appeared in various publications including Esquire, The Sunday Times, The Independent, The Observer and the Evening Standard. He was also briefly a journalist for the Teletext computer games magazine Digitiser, under the pseudonym Mr Hairs, alongside Mr Biffo (aka comedy and sitcom writer Paul Rose.)His book Frost On My Moustache is an account of a journey in which the author attempts to emulate Lord Dufferin's fearless spirit and enthusiastic adventuring, but comes to identify far more with Dufferin's permanently miserable butler, Wilson, as portrayed Dufferin's travel book Letters From High Latitudes.
In 2004, Moore presented an ITV programme based on his book Do Not Pass Go, a travelogue of his journey around the locations that appear on a British Monopoly board.
Moore lives in Chiswick, West London with his Icelandic wife Birna Helgadóttir and their three children, Kristján, Lilja and Valdis. He is also a brother-in-law of Agnar Helgason and Asgeir Helgason, and son-in-law of Helgi Valdimarsson.
Reviews of the French Revolutions: Cycling the Tour de France
EVAN
An interesting book that says more than you can fit
HOLLY
When you regret the book ends!
WILLIAM
Why is she out! It must be endless!
DAISY
The book that found the answer to my question
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