Harry Pearson

The Beast, the Emperor and the Milkman

A Bone-shaking Tour through Cycling's Flemish Heartlands

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Produktbeschreibung

A journey through the wild madness of bicycle racing in Flanders. LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 'A joy.' - Ned Boulting Every nation shapes sport to test the character traits it most admires. In The Beast, the Emperor and the Milkman, committed Belgophile and road cycling obsessive Harry Pearson takes you on a journey across Flanders, through the lumpy horizontal rain, up the elbow juddering cobbled inclines, past the fans dressed as chickens and the shop window displays of constipation medicines, as he follows races big, small and even smaller through one glorious, muddy spring. Ranging over 500 years of Flemish and European history, across windswept polders, along back roads and through an awful lot of beer cafes, Pearson examines the characters, the myths and rivalries that make Flanders a place where cycling is a religion and the riders its lycra-clad priests.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 250g
• ISBN-13: 9781472945068
• ISBN-10: 1472945069
• Artikelnr.: 58018325

Autorenporträt

Harry Pearson

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: Brick chimneys and iron men 1. The Final 200 Kilometres 2. A
Motor for a Heart 3. Donkeys and Carnivals 4. A Wednesday in Hell 5. Holey
Socks and a Cool Head 6. It's a Family Affair 7. Show Me the Money 8. The
Bulldog and the Red Guard 9. The Devil and Meester Maertens 10. D'ye Ken
Tom Boonen? 11. Pot Bellies and Barbra Streisand 12. Staying Small
Acknowledgements Index Picture credits