The Beast, The Emperor And The Milkman - A Bone-shaking Tour through Cycling's Flemish Heartlands (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Bloomsbury Sport
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2019
Authors:	Harry Pearson
Dimensions:	198 x 129 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	272
ISBN-13:	978-1-4729-4506-8
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > General Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Cycling, skateboarding, rollerblading > Cycling Books > History > History of specific subjects > General
LSN:	1-4729-4506-9
Barcode:	9781472945068

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