Tour de France and Its Heroes

By Graham Watson

Book Overview

This is just one example in a long list of great Graham Watson books including Kings of the Road, Visions of Cycling, Road to Hell, The Grand Tours, and 20 Years of Cycling Photography. The Tour de... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 096226301X
• ISBN13: 9780962263019
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: VeloPress
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.8" x 10.4"

Customer Reviews

Quite simply a true masterpiece! Get that book!!!

This book covers mainly the 80s of the Tour de France which was probaly its finest decade ever, before Indurain and then Amstrong took out all the excitement of the event with their long-lasting and boring domination. The texts are full of valuable insights and dramatic details. Add to that Graham Watsons atmospheric photos that seem to always capture the one, definite second of a situation, and you realise, that you have a jewel in your hands that you simply can't put away. This small book is one of the most authorative documents on the Tour de France - a true masterpiece. Open it, and you can almost hear the crowd cheering Greg Lemond and Bernard Hinault all the way up to L'Alpe d'Huez...