Synopses & Reviews
Happy 100th race, Tour de France! The deluxe Official Treasures series celebrates the grand occasion with a brand-new boxed edition. It gives fans of this 2,200-mile event—considered the greatest test of endurance in the sporting world—an authoritative account of each major era up to and including the 2012 Tour, plus 40 items of historic memorabilia packaged into six folders. The removable facsimiles include souvenir brochures, period newspapers, posters, stickers, and postcards and correspondence from leading cyclists.
An official publication of ASO, the organizers of the Tour de France, in tandem with the French sports newspaper L'Equipe, this volume features a foreword by Bernard Hinault, a five-time champion and Tour ambassador.
Review
“Some of the posters and pictures are of such high quality you could frame them.” —The Observer
“The perfect … guide to the worlds toughest sporting event.” —GQ Sport
Synopsis
This volume in Carltonand#8217;s highly successful Treasures series lovingly celebrates the greatest test of endurance in the sporting world: the Tour de France. With a foreword by Tour legend Bernard Hinault and more than 275 archival photographs, The Official Treasures: Leand#160;Tour de France presents an authoritative account of each major era in the sport (including the 2009 Tour), as well as features on the superstars and 40 facsimile items of rare of memorabilia from the past 105 years.
Synopsis
This volume in Carlton's highly successful
Treasures series lovingly celebrates the greatest test of endurance in the sporting world: the Tour de France. With a foreword by Tour legend Bernard Hinault and more than 275 archival photographs,
The Official Treasures: Le Tour de France presents an authoritative account of each major era in the sport (including the 2009 Tour), as well as features on the superstars and 40 facsimile items of rare of memorabilia from the past 105 years.
Synopsis
The greatest endurance test in sports, the Tour de France covers more than 2,200 miles in just over three weeks, climbing high into the Alps and Pyrenees on a circular journey around France and into neighboring countries before ending on the Champs-Élysées. This official publication of the Tour's organizers presents an authoritative history of the sport, including 40 items of rare facsimile memorabilia such as personal letters from champions, logbook entries, regulations from 1910, and more!
About the Author
Serge Laget was eight years old when, on vacation in the south of France, he watched the Tour de France go by. He was hooked and has followed the Tour ever since, covering it as a journalist for L'Equipe since 1987. He has written many books on cycling, including
Le Cyclisme,
La Saga du Tour de France, and
La Belle Epoque du Cyclisme. He lives in Paris. Luke Edwardes-Evans is a freelance sports writer who regularly contributes articles to
CyclingWeekly magazine and is the author of two Tour de France guides.