French Revolutions: Cycling the Tour de France

Determined to tackle the most fearsome physical challenge outside of classical mythology, Tim Moore, the ultimate amateur, resolves to complete all 2,256 miles of the Tour de France in the weeks before the professionals set off. Accounts of Moore's epic sufferings, and those encountered by the greatest heroes--including Lance Armstrong--in the Tour's history, are woven into a hilariously mordant look at rural France busy tarting itself up for its two weeks of the world's attention. A comic depiction of how to exceed--magnificently and hilariously--one's own grasp, French Revolutions is a laugh-out-loud tale by a writer described as "equal parts Bill Bryson and Evelyn Waugh" (The Christian Science Monitor).