Break Away

The heroes and hellraisers that made road cycling

Euan Ferguson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

208 Seiten

2016
Frances Lincoln (Verlag)
978-0-7112-3808-4 (ISBN)

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Break Away is the history of road cycling told chronologically through the micro-histories of 50 of the world’ s most significant cyclists from the late nineteenth century to the present day.

No sport demands and celebrates the suffering of its participants like road racing, yet the pursuit of cycling was formed out of a spirit of emancipation, freedom, invention and revolution. It started with Victorian adventurers who took their new machine across continents, up unscaled peaks and into the first races, followed by those who saw the potential of the bicycle as a radical mode of transport, before the twentieth-century sun shone on a golden age of cycling, bringing fame and fortune to its glamorous new sporting superstars.

Through fifty key riders, from early pioneers like Mark Twain to modern superstars like Eddy Merckx, Break Away is a fascinating and arresting new history of road cycling.

Euan Ferguson is a freelance writer and editor from London. For six years he was the principal bars and pubs writer for Time Out London, travelling all over the city to run the rule over cocktail bars, real-ale inns, gastropubs and hip drinking spots. These days, as well as writing about drinks and everything to do with them for magazines and websites he edits books on everything from sherry to cycling.

Erscheinungsdatum	07.09.2016
Sprache	englisch
Maße	200 x 230 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Motor- / Rad- / Flugsport
Themenwelt	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-7112-3808-1 / 0711238081
ISBN-13	978-0-7112-3808-4 / 9780711238084
Zustand	Neuware