Spring is coming to the small town of Michigan, but the snow still covers the land when Scripps O` Neil sets off for Chicago, decides to stop a while in Petoskey, & meets up with Yogi Johnson. Subtitled A Romantic Novel in Honour of the Passing of a Great Race, this work parodies the themes & styles of the `great race` of writers. ...

A well-maintained bike is a pleasure to ride
- & is a lot less less likely to break down. & with bike sales booming, more & more
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A well-maintained bike is a pleasure to ride
- & is a lot less less likely to break down. & with bike sales booming, more & more
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Hold the world in your hands with this bright, colourful & highly interactive atlas! Designed specifically to make the vast reaches of our planet tangible for a young audience, it presents the world as a place rich in discoveries that readers themselves can make on its pages. Divided by continent, there are lavish gatefolds with textured artworks that show biomes & terrains as well as wildlife, & further maps that show people, places & political boundaries. You can discover people, creatures & amazing physical & manmade features, & find out how every part of our planet is both vital & connected. ...

Hold the world in your hands with The Totally Amazing, Fact-Packed, Fold-Out Atlas of the World, a bright & colourful atlas! Designed specifically to make the vast reaches of our planet tangible for a young audience, & including three lavish gatefold maps showing the major continents in rich detail with pictoral insets featuring people, places & wildlife. It presents the world as a place rich in discoveries that readers themselves can make on its pages. Divided by continent, there are lavish gatefolds with textured artworks that show biomes & terrains as well as wildlife, & further maps that show people, places & political boundaries. Discover people, creatures & amazing physical & man-made features, & find out how every part of our planet is both vital & connected. ...

” This year G was the strongest rider, & he finally had Lady Luck on his side. An unstoppable combination” Chris Froome”I understood what Geraint`s win meant: for him, for me, for the team, & for Wales, too” Dave Brailsford” Wow!” Thierry Henry For years Geraint Thomas appeared blessed with extraordinary talent but jinxed at the greatest bike race in the world: twice an Olympic gold medallist on the track, Commonwealth champion, yet at the Tour de France a victim of crashes, bad luck & his willingness to sacrifice himself for his team-mates. In the summer of 2018, that curse was blown away in spectacular fashion
- from the cobbles of the north & the iconic mountain climbs of the Alps to the brutal slopes of the Pyrenees &, finally, the Champs-Elysees in Paris. As a boy, G had run home from school on summer afternoons to watch the Tour on television. This July, across twenty-one stages & three weeks, & under constant attack from his rivals, he made the race his own. With insight from the key characters around Geraint, this is the inside story of one of the most thrilling & heart-warming tales in sport. Not only can nice guys come first
- they can win the biggest prize of all.

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There is something for all cycle racing fans in Tour de France Miscellany. The world`s premier bike race dates back to the start of the last century & has developed a reputation for glamour, glitz & glory. For more than 110 years, the Tour de France has provided the sporting world with some truly historic moments, involving many of the greatest names in modern folklore. Within these pages, the reader will learn hundreds of fascinating facts about the sport on a wide range of topics, from riders & teams to mountain climbs & sprint finishes. As the items appear completely at random, it is not really a book to be read from cover to cover, more one to be dipped into & enjoyed in short breaks. Painstakingly researched by the master of the sporting factoid, Tour de France Miscellany will bring hours of reading pleasure to every sports fan. ...

If there is one mountain climb that embodies the spirit & magic of the Tour de France, it is the Alpe d` Huez. Its twenty-one hairpin turns & average gradient of 8.1 percent over 13.1 kilometers have become legendary, changing the careers of Americans Greg Le Mond & Lance Armstrong, & nearly destroying Jan Ullrich & Marco Pantani. Here at last is the definitive history & unforgettable story of cycling`s greatest challenge.” In The Tour is Won on the Alpe: The Classic Battles of the Tour de France”, cycling historian Jean-Paul Vespini tells the story of this celebrated climb & the mountain that so often acts as the ultimate arbiter for cycling`s biggest prize. Each chapter covers one ascent, starting with Fausto Coppi`s astonishing victory in 1952. Cycling`s most famous names are all present & accounted for: Coppi, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault, Pedro Delgado, Miguel Indurain, Marco Pantani, & of course the American victors Greg Le Mond & Lance Armstrong. Jean-Paul Vespini`s riveting descriptions of each battle to the top include candid interviews with riders, new insight into epic rivalries, & little-known but fascinating facts about the climb that has become a rite of passage for every rider in the peloton. ...

From the original horse-drawn caravan to the sophisticated & well-appointed luxury leisure vehicle we know today, this book ...

The Tower & St. Katharine`s Dock in 1873-94 in a series of exceptionally detailed reproductions of old Ordnance Survey street plans for areas of larger cities which have undergone substantial redevelopment in the late 19th or the early 20th century, published in the Alan Godfrey Editions. The plans, printed in back & white, have been taken from the original Ordnance Survey mapping at 1:1, 056 & reproduced at 1:1, 760 – the equivalent of 36 inches (or one yard) to a mile. The maps provide an unrivalled, house-by-house picture of streets & individual buildings with inner courtyards, outbuildings, pavements, covered passages, etc. Many important institutions are named; within the National Galley on Trafalgar Square even the individual rooms (the map is from 1871, so no French Impressionists as yet!). On the reverse are historical notes about the area covered by the map, plus extracts from contemporary street directories. These maps provide a fascinating addition to Alan Godfrey’s huge series of some 2, 000 titles presenting reproductions of street plans at taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping at 1:2, 500 (25” to 1 mile) & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). ...