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
Having ridden the route of the Tour de France in French
Revolutions, led a donkey on a 500-mile pilgrimage in Spanish Steps
and driven round the worst places in Britain in an Austin Maestro
for You Are Awful (But I Like You), Tim Moore can loook back on a
towering career in misadventure.
Gironimo!, his latest and most imposing pedal-powered endeavour, is
a story of predictable over-ambition trumped by frankly staggering
over-achievement. Moore lives in London with his wife and three
children, and still wears those welding goggles at Christmas.
A considerable achievement
*Lonely Planet Traveller*
Painfully funny
*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
*Irish Times*
Gironimo! is partly a story of adversity, despair, and tenacity –
and partly a funny, and often sweary, travelogue. I was hooked from
the start
*Cycle*
Absurd, inspirational and laugh-out-loud funny, Gironimo! Is a
charming tribute to the dogged resilience of the amateur spirit and
a golden age of road cycling
*Racing Post*
Part travelogue, part sports record and part history and all
written with his inimitable humour
*By the Dart*
Gironimo is the perfect successor to French Revolutions, and
provides more of everything that made the latter so popular
*Cycling World*
The author’s adventures are often highly entertaining, though, as
“road-trip” literature, it is unusual in that it mostly makes the
reader glad not to be on the road!
*Good Book Guide*
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