Blazing saddles : the cruel & unusual history of the Tour de France

Rendell, Matt.

Book 2008

"The Tour de France is probably cruel and it's undoubtedly unusual, but it also makes for an exceptionally good story. After 105 years and 95 laps of France (time out only for World Wars), the fine spectacle of life-threatening exertion, bare-faced cheating, roadside sabotage, ludicrous clothing, extreme intimate discomfort and grown men at the absolute end of their tethers has gathered the race an audience of millions." "Blazing Saddles takes a...

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ISBN:

9781934030257

Description:

303 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Notes:

Originally published: London : Quercus, 2007

Contents:

Prologue, or 'The Sporting Bumblebee'
Le Grand Depart
1903: The First Annual Congress of Hardy Crotches
1904: The Last Tour
1905-6: Myths of Mountains
1907-8: Argie-Bargie
1909: Giant Haystacks
1910: Over the Top
1911: Domestique Bliss
1912-4: Belgium Attacks!
From One War to the Next
1919: Bange's Bright Idea
1920-2: Tales of Torment
1923-4: Chain Gang on Wheels
1925: Living Dangerously
1926: The Fabulous Buysse Boys
1927-8: Two Tours de Frantz
1929: Three Yellow Jerseys
1930-4: Four for France
1935-9: Disraeli Gears
Golden Age
1947: A Marriage of Convenience
1948: 'V' for Vatican
1949: A Rare Bird
1950-1: Special K
1952: The Greatest
1953-5: Holey Trinity
1956: A Win for a Nobody
Anquetil and After
1957: Boy Wonder
1958: Supernatural!
1959-60: Cat and Mouse
1961-4: The Caravelle Prophecies
1965: Afterglow
1966: Big Brother
1967: Image and Reality
1968: Fifty Ways to Lose the Tour
Cannibal
1969-74: The Greatest Belgian Ever
1975-7: Eddy's Final Act
Tears of the Badger
1978-9: The Tetch Offensive
1980 In Through the Out Door
1981-2: The Killer Glance
1983-4: Mister Merckx? Who he?
1985-6: Not Dead Yet
1987-8: In Absentia
1989-90: Against the Odds
Modern EPOch
1991-5: Chance the Gardener
1996: Mr Sixty Per Cent
1997: Wunderkind
1998: Piracy
Winning Habit
1999: Anything's Possible
2000: 'I Don't Speak French'
2001: The Look
2002: Take the 'A' Train
2003: Pride after a Fall
2004: 'I Can Destroy You'
2005: Magnificent Seven
2006: Meltdown
2007: Chicken Run

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2595330

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