Published by Pocket Books, 2004
ISBN 10: 0743449924 ISBN 13: 9780743449922
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Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.7.
Published by Simon & Schuster, Limited, 2004
ISBN 10: 0743449924 ISBN 13: 9780743449922
Seller: Better World Books Ltd, Dunfermline, United Kingdom
Condition: Very Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.
Published by Simon & Schuster, 2004
ISBN 10: 0743449924 ISBN 13: 9780743449922
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Condition: Very Good. 2006. New. paperback. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. .
Published by Simon & Schuster, 2006
ISBN 10: 0743449924 ISBN 13: 9780743449922
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Published by Simon and Schuster, London, 2003
ISBN 10: 0743231104 ISBN 13: 9780743231107
Seller: The Blue Penguin, FRODSHAM, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Dustwrapper, pp.xvi, 378. Illustrated. Contents lightly browned. Inscription to prelim. Near fine in dustwrapper. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Published by Simon & Schuster, London, 2003
ISBN 10: 0743231104 ISBN 13: 9780743231107
Seller: Amazing Book Company, Liphook, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Mint. First Edition. LE TOUR A History of the Tour de France. Geoffrey Wheatcroft. Simon & Schuster, London 2003 First edition ISBN 0743231104 378pp Illustrated Hardback This copy has some typival age toning to the page edges but this does not affect either the text or the illustrations so best described as FINE the unclipped dustwrapper is in MINT condition. A masterful and hugely entertaining history of the Tour de France's first hundred years. When Henri Desgrange began a new bicycle road race in 1903, he saw it as little more than a temporary publicity stunt to promote his newspaper. The sixty cyclists who left Paris to ride through the night to Lyons that first July had little idea they were pioneers of the most famous of all bike races, which would reach its centenary as one of the greatest sporting events on earth. The races of the early twentieth century -- as with the late -- were marred by cheating and chicanery, but before long the Tour became a national institution. Along the way the event opened a window both inwards upon French culture, inspiring a whole new kind of journalism, ruthless civic rivalries and any number of popular songs, and also outwards upon European politics. Geoffrey Wheatcroft's masterful history of the Tour de France's first hundred years is not just a hugely entertaining canter through some great Tour stories; nor is it merely a homage to the riders whose names -- Coppi, Simpson, Mercx, Armstrong -- are synonymous with the event's folly and glory; focusing too on the race's role in French cultural life it provides a unique and fascinating insight into Europe's twentieth century. Ref G4.