"Moore tells the inside story of some of the Tour's greatest modern exploits."
Etape
20 Great Stages from the Modern Tour de France
Description
What if all the best Tour stages happened in one race? In Etape, critically acclaimed author Richard Moore weaves first-person interviews with cycling's great riders to assemble a "dream team" of the best Tour de France stages in modern history.
Featuring exclusive interviews with the Tour's legends and scoundrels about their best-ever day on the bike (and their most heartbreaking defeats), Moore unravels lingering mysteries and recounts strange tales from 20 great stages of the Tour: LeMond's impossible return from near-death, Schleck's primal scream atop the Galibier, Merckx's self-described toughest Tour, Cav's mind-bending victory in Aubenas, Hinault's hellish battle with Fignon.
Etape assembles the greatest days of modern Tour history into a Tour de France of incredible victory, glorious failure, shocking revelation, and beautiful memories. In the words of those who were there, Etape recreates each day vividly and reveals the beauty and the madness of cycling's greatest race.
Reviews
"As he did in Slaying the Badger and Tour de France 100, author Richard Moore peers behind the curtains of the sport of cycling, sitting down with some of the Tour's modern icons, and its scoundrels, to unravel and recount strange tales from 20 great stages in recent Tour de France history."
"All [the Tour's] complexity and more is dealt with by Richard Moore in Etape, which offers a tour through the Tour de France...from 1971 through to 2012. It's almost like a Tour mix-tape, a collection of greatest hits, album tracks, and B-sides, some of which you are already familiar with, some of which you will be hearing for the first time."
"Richard Moore is his own secret weapon. [He] is incontestably one of the finest published sports writers of our time. Etape is his finest hour. There will be a great number of books about the Tour de France published in the next month, but if your appetite for yellow extends to only one, make it this one."
