In this updated edition of the highly acclaimed Tour de France, Graeme
Fife sets the 2012 race in the context of the event's remarkable
history, stretching back to July 1903. Combining meticulous research
with a pacy narrative style, he penetrates the mystique of the race and
paints a colourful picture of the men whose exploits have given the Tour
an enduring universal appeal. Moreover, the book now celebrates a truly
historic event: The 99th edition of the race was won, for the first
time, by a Briton.
Bradley Wiggins pedalled into the record books, in company with his
teammates Christopher Froome, who came second, and Mark Cavendish, the
current world road race champion, whose 23 stage wins make him make him
the Tour's most prolific sprinter. Laced with tales of great solo rides,
amazing fortitude, terrible misfortune and triumph, Tour de France is
the definitive account of this extraordinary competition.
Named one of the top-five sports books of the year by both The
Independent and The Times, it is the essential guide to the Tour.
Graeme Fife is a full-time writer who has worked much in radio and
written a number of books, including Inside the Peloton and The
Beautiful Machine. A keen cyclist, he has ridden all the celebrated
cols of Tour legend.
