Butcher, Blacksmith, Acrobat, Sweep, Cossins, Peter

Автор: Peter Cossins
Название: Tour de France 100
ISBN: 1844037428 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781844037421
Издательство: Hachette Book Group
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Автор: Cossins Peter
Название: Alpe D`Huez: Cycling`s Greatest Climb
ISBN: 1781314497 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781781314494
Издательство: Quarto
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Описание: In Alpe d` Huez, veteran cycling journalist Peter Cossins reveals the triumphs, passion and despair behind the great exploits on the Alpe and discloses the untold details that have led to the mountain becoming as important to the Tour as the race is to resort at its summit.

Автор: Cossins Robert
Название: Made to Lead: Finding a Virtuous Wife in Sodom
ISBN: 0615939481 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780615939483
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 1636.00 р.
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Автор: Cossins Jennifer
Название: 101 Collective Nouns
ISBN: 0734417977 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780734417978
Издательство: Little Brown
Цена: 1668.00 р.
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Описание: Based on a series of case studies of globally distributed media and their reception in different parts of the world, Imagining the Global reflects on what contemporary global culture can teach us about transnational cultural dynamics in the 21st century. It also explores how individuals` consumption of global media shapes their imagination of both faraway places and their own local lives.

Автор: Cossins Peter
Название: The First Tour de France: Sixty Cyclists and Nineteen Days of Daring on the Road to Paris
ISBN: 1568589840 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781568589848
Издательство: Неизвестно
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Описание: From its inception, the 1903 Tour de France was a colorful affair. Full of adventure, mishaps and audacious attempts at cheating, it was a race to be remembered.

Cyclists of the time weren't enthusiastic about participating in this "heroic" race on roads more suited to hooves than wheels, with bikes weighing up to thirty-five pounds, on a single fixed gear, for three full weeks. Assembling enough riders for the race meant paying unemployed amateurs from the suburbs of Paris, including a butcher, a chimney sweep and a circus acrobat. From Maurice "The White Bulldog" Garin, an Italian-born Frenchman whose parents were said to have swapped him for a round of cheese in order to smuggle him into France as a fourteen-year-old, to Hippolyte Aucouturier, who looked like a villain from a Buster Keaton movie with his jersey of horizontal stripes and handlebar moustache, the cyclists were a remarkable bunch.

Starting in the Parisian suburb of Montgeron, the route took the intrepid cyclists through Lyon, over the hills to Marseille, then on to Toulouse, Bordeaux, and Nantes, ending with great fanfare at the Parc des Princes in Paris. There was no indication that this ramshackle cycling pack would draw crowds to throng France's rutted roads and cheer the first Tour heroes. But they did; and all thanks to a marketing ruse, cycling would never be the same again.