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The beautiful race : the story of the Giro d'Italia /
- Title
- The beautiful race : the story of the Giro d'Italia / Colin O'Brien.
- Author
- O'Brien, Colin (Cycling journalist),
- Publication
- New York : Pegasus Books, 2018.
- ©2018
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Details
- Description
- x, 238 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 24 cm
- Summary
- A richly written celebration of the Giro d'Italia in all its kaleidoscopic glory after more than one-hundred stagings of this desperately hard race.
- Uniform Title
- Giro d'Italia
- Alternative Title
- Giro d'Italia
- Subjects
- Note
- Originally published as: Giro d'Italia : the story of the world's most beautiful bike race. London : Pursuit Books, 2017.
- Includes index.
- Contents
- The Giro is born -- The early years -- Salita famosa: Roccaraso, Abruzzo -- Alfredo Binda: il Grande Antipatico -- The Devil wears wool shorts -- Salita famosa: Croce d'Aune, Veneto -- Fascism and the Giro -- Bartali and Coppi, Coppi and Bartali -- Magni: il Terzo Uomo -- Salita famosa: Passo dello Stelvio, Trentino-Alto Adige -- Gracious Gimondi and merciless Merckx -- Salita famosa: Blockhaus, Abruzzo -- The sheriff and the rifle shot -- Salita famosa: Tre Crime di Lavaredo, Veneto -- Enter the Americans -- The Sappada affair -- 1988: fear and loathing in Lombardy -- Marco Pantani -- Salita famosa: Colle delle Finestre, Piemonte -- A decade of difficulty -- Salita famosa: Colle dell'Agnello, Piemonte -- Then and now -- Epilogue -- List of winners.
- ISBN
- 1681776642
- 9781681776644
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library