Great British Cycling - Softcover

Ellis Bacon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0857502514 ISBN 13: 9780857502513

Publisher: Bantam, 2015

Synopsis

Great British Cycling

About this title

About the Author:

Ellis Bacon has been writing about bike racing for a living since joining Procycling magazine as deputy editor in 2003. He has since written for a number of other cycling publications and websites, including Cycle Sport, Cyclist, cyclingnews.com and Cycling Weekly, as well as for The Times and the Observer. A keen linguist, he translated Bjarne Riis's autobiography, Riis: Stages of Light and Dark, from Danish into English, and he is also the co-editor, along with Lionel Birnie, of The Cycling Anthology series of books, published twice a year. Great British Cycling is his third book, following World's Ultimate Cycle Races and Mapping Le Tour.

Review:

"Traces the mixed fortunes of the sport on these shores and happily revisits forgotten greats." -- William Fotheringham * The Guardian, Books of the Year * "Informative and entertaining, Great British Cycling not only neatly sums up where we are now, but also how we got there - and perhaps most importantly - who we have to thank for it. All in all, an absolute must-own for cycling aficionados and new fans of the sport alike." * Cyclosport * "Tracks the irresistible rise of the sport on these shores from modest beginnings to such great achievements to be thought of as worldbeaters." * Huffington Post * "Always interesting... much to enjoy." * Brendan Gallagher, tourofbritain.co.uk *

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0857502514
• ISBN 13: 9780857502513
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336