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Vuelta Skelter

By Tim Moore

Vuelta Skelter Politics & Society

Vuelta Skelter

By Tim Moore

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Tim Moore completes his epic (and ill-advised) trilogy of cycling's Grand Tours. Julian Berrendero's victory in the 1941 Vuelta a Espana was an extraordinary exercise in sporting redemption: the Spanish cyclist had just spent 18 months in Franco's concentration camps, punishment for expressing Republican sympathies during the civil war. Seventy nine years later, perennially over-ambitious cyclo-adventurer Tim Moore developed a fascination with Berrendero's story, and having borrowed an old road bike with the great man's name plastered all over it, set off to retrace the 4,409km route of his 1941 triumph - in the midst of a global pandemic. What follows is a tale of brutal heat and lonely roads, of glory, humiliation, and then a bit more humiliation. Along the way Tim recounts the civil war's still-vivid tragedies, and finds the gregarious but impressively responsible locals torn between welcoming their nation's only foreign visitor, and bundling him and his filthy bike into a vat of antiviral gel.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
325
Release Date:
2022-07-14
Publication Date:
2022-07-14
Publisher:
Random House UK Ltd
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1529113792
ISBN13:
9781529113792
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
238 g
Height:
130 cm
Width:
197 cm
Thickness:
27 cm
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