Gironimo!: Riding the Very Terrible 1914 Tour of Italy [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Moore, Tim

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0224100157 ISBN 13: 9780224100151

Casa editrice: Yellow Jersey, 2015

Riassunto

A 3,162 km race. A 48-year-old man. A 100-year-old bike. Made mostly of wood. That he built himself.

Tim Moore sets off to recreate the most appalling bike race of all time. The notorious 1914 Giro d'Italia was an ordeal of 400-kilometre stages, cataclysmic night storms and relentless sabotage - all on a diet of raw eggs and red wine. Of the 81 who rolled out of Milan, only eight made it back.

Committed to total authenticity, Tim acquires the ruined husk of a gearless, wooden-wheeled 1914 road bike with wine corks for brakes, some maps and an alarming period outfit topped off with a pair of blue-lensed welding goggles.

From the Alps to the Adriatic the pair relive the bike race in all its misery and glory, on an adventure that is by turns bold, beautiful and recklessly incompetent.

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Recensione:

"A considerable achievement" (Duncan Craig Lonely Planet Traveller)

"Painfully funny" (Tim Dowling Week)

"A wonderfully written, extremely funny book... You read Gironimo! with a permanent smile on your face" (UK Press Syndication)

"A superbly funny read" (Cycling Weekly)

"Readers of Moore’s French Revolutions will not be disappointed by this hilariously painful, and poignant, adventure" (Anna Carey Irish Times)

Descrizione del libro:

The author of the bestselling French Revolutions does Italy - cycling the course of the 1914 Giro d'Italia on a wooden bike.

'Bill Bryson on two wheels' Independent

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• Editore: Yellow Jersey
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0224100157
• ISBN 13: 9780224100151
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 368