Full of adventure, mishaps and audacious attempts at cheating, the first Tour de France in 1903 was a colourful affair. Its riders included characters like Maurice Garin, an Italian-born Frenchman, said to have been swapped for a round of cheese by his parents in order to smuggle him into France to clean chimneys as a teenager, Hippolyte Aucouturier with his trademark handlebar moustache, and amateurs like Jean Dargassies, a blacksmith who had never raced before. Dreamed up to revive struggling ...
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Butcher, Blacksmith, Acrobat, Sweep
The Tale of the First Tour de France, Unterstützte Lesegerätegruppen: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet
Cossins, Peter
E-Book, 368 S.
Sprache: Englisch
Random House (2017)
Gewicht: 0 g
ISBN-13: 978-1-4735-4679-0
Titelnr.: 66082233