Told for the first time, the full story behind the creation of the Tour de France and the remarkable first edition of the race in 1903.
First drawn into the sport while a student in Spain in the
mid-1980s, Peter Cossins has been writing about cycling since 1993,
contributing principally to Cycling Weekly, Cycle Sport and
Procycling.
The Monuments, his history of cycling's five greatest one-day
Classic races, was published in 2014, followed in 2015 by Alpe
d'Huez, an appraisal of cycling's greatest climb.
For Yellow Jersey Press he has written the definitive account of
the first ever Tour de France, Butcher, Blacksmith, Acrobat, Sweep
the also the enlightening book on cycling tactics, Full Gas.
He lives in the Ari ge in the heart of the French Pyrenees.
Essential…The First Tour de France takes you back to the race
itself. Cossins produces a deeply researched and detailed
description of the race that toggles between background information
on the race’s organization and the individual stages, with long
stretches of real-time-style stage reporting one chapter at a
time.The effect of this, especially the latter, is soaring
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Enthralling… Full of outlandish characters and ripping yarns, it
makes for a cracking good read
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