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9781781315903 | Aurum Pr Ltd, October 20, 2016, cover price $27.99
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9781781314258 | Aurum Pr Ltd, February 15, 2016, cover price $26.99
Product Description: It has been called the Tour de France's 'Hollywood climb', and there is no doubt that Alpe d'Huez has played a starring role in cycling's history since its first encounter with the sport back in 1952 when the legendary Fausto Coppi triumphed on the summit...read more
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9781781314494 | Aurum Pr Ltd, August 5, 2016, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: It has been called the Tour de France's 'Hollywood climb', and there is no doubt that Alpe d'Huez has played a starring role in cycling's history since its first encounter with the sport back in 1952 when the legendary Fausto Coppi triumphed on the summit.
The Tour de France may provide the most obvious fame and glory, but it is cycling's one-day tests that the professional riders really prize. Toughest, longest and dirtiest of all are the so-called "Monuments", the five legendary races that are the sport's equivalent of golf's majors or the grand slams in tennis. MilanâSanremo, the Tour of Flanders, ParisÂâRoubaix, LiègeâBastogneâLiège and the Tour of Lombardy date back more than a century, and each of them is an anomaly in modern-day sport, the cycling equivalent of the Monaco Grand Prix. Time has changed them to a degree, but they remain as brutally testing as they ever have been. They provide the sport's outstanding one-day performers-the likes of Philippe Gilbert, Fabian Cancellara, Mark Cavendish, Tom Boonen, Peter Sagan and Thor Hushovd-with a chance to measure themselves against each other and their predecessors in the most challenging tests in world cycling. From the bone-shattering bowler-hat cobbles of the ParisâRoubaix to the insanely steep hellingen in the Tour of Flanders, each race is as unique as the riders who push themselves through extreme exhaustion to win them and enter their epic history. Over the course of a century, only Rik Van Looy and Eddy Merckx have won all five races. Yet victory in a single edition of a Monument guarantees a rider lasting fame. For some, that one victory has even more cachet than success in a grand tour. Each of the Monuments has a fascinating history, featuring tales of the finest and largest characters in the sport. In The Monuments Peter Cossins tells the tumultuous history of these extraordinary races and the riders they have immortalised.
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9781408846834 | Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, May 5, 2015, cover price $12.00
9781408846810 | Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, September 16, 2014, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: The Tour de France may provide the most obvious fame and glory, but it is cycling's one-day tests that the professional riders really prize.
9780380798315, titled "C'Mere, Kitty: A Cat Lover's Guide to Pestering Your Pet" | Avon Books, September 1, 1998, cover price $6.50 | also contains C''Mere, Kitty: A Cat Lover''s Guide to Pestering Your Pet
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9781472910356 | Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, March 31, 2015, cover price $28.00
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9781472910363 | Gardners Books, July 3, 2014, cover price $20.95
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9781844037421 | Cassell, May 7, 2013, cover price $29.99
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9780292738089, titled "Intellectual Precursors of the Mexican Revolution, 1900-1913" | Univ of Texas Pr, February 1, 1981, cover price $9.95 | also contains Intellectual Precursors of the Mexican Revolution, 1900-1913
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9781931382380 | Velopress, December 1, 2004, cover price $24.95
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9781931382373 | Velopress, September 1, 2003, cover price $24.95
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