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*A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021* Tim Moore, the author of
the Sunday Times bestselling French Revolutions, completes his epic
(and ill-advised) trilogy of cycling's Grand Tours. Julian
Berrendero's victory in the 1941 Vuelta a Espana was an
extraordinary exercise in sporting redemption: the Spanish cyclist
had just spent 18 months in Franco's concentration camps,
punishment for expressing Republican sympathies during the civil
war. Seventy nine years later, perennially over-ambitious
cyclo-adventurer Tim Moore developed a fascination with
Berrendero's story, and having borrowed an old road bike with the
great man's name plastered all over it, set off to retrace the
4,409km route of his 1941 triumph - in the midst of a global
pandemic. What follows is a tale of brutal heat and lonely roads,
of glory, humiliation, and then a bit more humiliation. Along the
way Tim recounts the civil war's still-vivid tragedies, and finds
the gregarious but impressively responsible locals torn between
welcoming their nation's only foreign visitor, and bundling him and
his filthy bike into a vat of antiviral gel. 'Bill Bryson on two
wheels' Independent
Tim Moore completes his epic (and ill-advised) trilogy of cycling's
Grand Tours. Julian Berrendero's victory in the 1941 Vuelta a
Espana was an extraordinary exercise in sporting redemption: the
Spanish cyclist had just spent 18 months in Franco's concentration
camps, punishment for expressing Republican sympathies during the
civil war. Seventy nine years later, perennially over-ambitious
cyclo-adventurer Tim Moore developed a fascination with
Berrendero's story, and having borrowed an old road bike with the
great man's name plastered all over it, set off to retrace the
4,409km route of his 1941 triumph - in the midst of a global
pandemic. What follows is a tale of brutal heat and lonely roads,
of glory, humiliation, and then a bit more humiliation. Along the
way Tim recounts the civil war's still-vivid tragedies, and finds
the gregarious but impressively responsible locals torn between
welcoming their nation's only foreign visitor, and bundling him and
his filthy bike into a vat of antiviral gel.
Tim Moore - indefatigable travelling everyman - switches two wheels
for four as he journeys across Trumpland in an original Model T
Ford. 'Alarmingly full of incident, very funny - even mildly
transformative' Daily Mail Lacking even the most basic mechanical
knowhow, Tim Moore sets out to cross Trumpland USA in an original
Model T Ford. Armed only with a fan belt made of cotton, wooden
wheels and a trunkload of 'wise-ass Limey liberal gumption', his
route takes him exclusively through Donald-voting counties, meeting
the everyday folks who voted red along the way. He meets a people
defined by extraordinary generosity, willing to shift heaven and
earth to keep him on the road. And yet, this is clearly a nation in
conflict with itself: citizens 'tooling up' in reaction to
ever-increasing security fears; a healthcare system creaking to
support sugar-loaded soda lovers; a disintegrating rust belt all
but forgotten by the warring media and political classes. With his
trademark blend of slapstick humour, affable insight and
butt-clenching peril, Tim Moore invites us on an unforgettable road
trip through America. Buckle up!
'Bill Bryson on two wheels' Independent Scaling a new peak of rash
over-ambition, Tim Moore tackles the 9,000km route of the old Iron
Curtain on a tiny-wheeled, two-geared East German shopping bike.
Asking for trouble and getting it, he sets off at the Arctic
winter's brutal height, bullying his plucky MIFA 900 through the
endless and massively sub-zero desolation of snowbound Finland.
Haunted throughout the journey by the border detritus of
watchtowers and rusted razor wire, Moore reflects on the curdling
of the Communist dream, and the memories of a Cold War generation
reared on the fear of apocalypse - at a time of ratcheting
East-West tension. After three months, 20 countries and a 58-degree
jaunt up the centigrade scale, man and bike finally wobble up to a
Black Sea beach in Bulgaria, older and wiser, but mainly older.
A 3,162 km race. A 48-year-old man. A 100-year-old bike. Made
mostly of wood. That he built himself. Tim Moore sets off to
recreate the most appalling bike race of all time. The notorious
1914 Giro d'Italia was an ordeal of 400-kilometre stages,
cataclysmic night storms and relentless sabotage - all on a diet of
raw eggs and red wine. Of the 81 who rolled out of Milan, only
eight made it back. Committed to total authenticity, Tim acquires
the ruined husk of a gearless, wooden-wheeled 1914 road bike with
wine corks for brakes, some maps and an alarming period outfit
topped off with a pair of blue-lensed welding goggles. From the
Alps to the Adriatic the pair relive the bike race in all its
misery and glory, on an adventure that is by turns bold, beautiful
and recklessly incompetent.
Tim Moore - indefatigable travelling everyman – switches two wheels for four as he journeys across Trumpland in an original Model T Ford.
‘Alarmingly full of incident, very funny – even mildly transformative’ Daily Mail
Lacking even the most basic mechanical knowhow, Tim Moore sets out to cross Trumpland USA in an original Model T Ford. Armed only with a fan belt made of cotton, wooden wheels and a trunkload of ‘wise-ass Limey liberal gumption’, his route takes him exclusively through Donald-voting counties, meeting the everyday folks who voted red along the way.
He meets a people defined by extraordinary generosity, willing to shift heaven and earth to keep him on the road. And yet, this is clearly a nation in conflict with itself: citizens ‘tooling up’ in reaction to ever-increasing security fears; a healthcare system creaking to support sugar-loaded soda lovers; a disintegrating rust belt all but forgotten by the warring media and political classes.
With his trademark blend of slapstick humour, affable insight and butt-clenching peril, Tim Moore invites us on an unforgettable road trip through America. Buckle up!
Ludicrous, heart-warming and improbably inspirational, Spanish
Steps is the story of what happens when a rather silly man tries to
walk all the way across a very large country, with a very large
animal who doesn't really want to. Being larger than a cat, the
donkey is the kind of animal Tim Moore is slightly scared of. Yet
intrigued by epic accounts of a pilgrimage undertaken by one in
three medieval Europeans, and committed to historical authenticity,
he finds himself leading a Pyrenean ass named Shinto into Spain,
headed for Santiago de Compostela. Over 500 miles of extreme
weather and agonising bestial sloth, it becomes memorably apparent
that for the multinational band of eccentrics who keep the
Santiagan flame alive, the pilgrimage has evolved from a purely
devotional undertaking into a mobile therapist's couch. 'Hailed as
the new Bill Bryson, he is in fact a writer of considerably more
substance and the jokes come thick and fast' Irish Times
Tim Moore grew up in Kenya in the early twentieth century, as the
son of a bookseller. In his lifetime he saw the change from the
Protectorate of the British East Africa to Kenya Colony and then to
the independent Republic of Kenya. In 1937 Tim signed up as a clerk
at the headquarters of the King's African Rifles; two years later,
war broke out. Before long, he found himself policing occupied
territories in East Africa, protecting the populace from gangs of
armed bandits. After military service Tim joined the Kenya
Immigration Department and then became a probation officer,
watching the development of Kenya's new probation service from the
inside. The book is written in Tim's own words with additional
content from his son David and is illustrated with photographs
throughout. It gives a first-hand account of operations on a
continent sometimes neglected in accounts of the Second World War.
'Bill Bryson on two wheels' Independent Self-confessed loafer Tim
Moore, seduced by the speed and glamour of the biggest annual
sporting event in the world, sets out to cycle the Tour de France.
All 3,630km of it. A few weeks before the actual Tour de France,
British writer Tim Moore sets out to cycle the course and offers a
laugh-out-loud funny and highly entertaining account of how the
great ride would feel when embarked on by an amateur. Racing old
men on butchers' bikes and being chased by cows, Moore soon resorts
to standard race tactics - cheating and drugs - in a hilarious and
moving tale of true adventure.
This book discusses the history of thermal heat generators and
focuses on the potential for these processes using micro-electrical
mechanical systems (MEMS) technology for this application. The main
focus is on the capture of waste thermal energy for example from
industrial processes, transport systems or the human body to
generate useable electrical power. A wide range of technologies is
discussed, including external combustion heat cycles at MEMS (
Brayton, Stirling and Rankine), Thermoacoustic, Shape Memory Alloys
(SMAs), Multiferroics, Thermionics, Pyroelectric, Seebeck, Alkali
Metal Thermal, Hydride Heat Engine, Johnson Thermo Electrochemical
Converters, and the Johnson Electric Heat Pipe.
‘They stuck their coaches on ride-on, ride off ferries, whisked through France and Italy moaning about garlic and rudeness, then bored the neighbours to death by having them all round to look at their holiday watercolours’ Many people associate the Grand Tour with the baggy shirted Byrons of its 19th century heyday, but someone had to do it first and Thomas Coryate, author of arguably the first piece of pure travel writing, CRUDITIES, was that man. Tim Moore travels through 45 cities in the steps of a larger-than-life Jacobean hero incidentally responsible for introducing forks to England and thus ending forever the days of the finger-lickin’-good drumstick hurlers of courts gone by. Coryate’s early 17th century bawdy anecdotes include being pelted with eggs, pursued by a knife wielding man in a turban and, finally, being vomited on copiously by a topless woman with a beer barrel on her head:- For once, Tim Moore has no trouble keeping up the modern-day side. And his authentic method of travel to replicate these adventures? A clapped-out pink Rolls Royce, of course.
Tatoetry uses literary devices designed to leave an impression on
your mind.
Tatoetry uses literary devices designed to leave an impression on
your mind.
Tatoetry is designed using literary devices to leave an impression
on your mind.
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The tradition of the Grand Tour was started in 1608 by an intrepid but down-at-the-heels English courtier named Thomas Coryate, who walked across Europe, miraculously managed to return home in one piece, and wrote a book about his bawdy misadventures. With The Grand Tour, Tim Moore proves not only that he is Coryate's worthy successor but one of the finest and funniest travel writers working today. Armed with a well-thumbed reprint of Coryate's book, Moore donned a purple plush suit and set off in a second-hand and highly temperamental Rolls-Royce through France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, and Holland. Like Coryate, Moore possesses an astonishing ability to land himself in humiliating predicaments. His account of his hilariously memorable misadventures on Venice's canals on one fateful afternoon is by itself worth the price of admission. Moore brings new life to the Old World and in the process sends readers into paroxysms of laugher and delight.
Would you cheer if they sent you to Coventry? Could you stick up
for Stoke or big-up Bracknell? Can you handle the thrill of Rhyl,
the heaven of Hull or the mirth of Tydfil? In You are Awful, Tim
Moore drives his Austin Maestro round all the places on our beloved
island that nobody wants to go to - our most miserable towns,
shonkiest hotels, scariest pubs, and silliest sea zoos... But as
the soggy, decrepit quest unfolds he finds himself oddly smitten,
and the result is a rousing, nostalgic celebration of mad, bad But
I Like You Britain.
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