The beautiful race
Subtitle: the story of the Giro d'Italia
By: Colin O'Brien
Edition: First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9781681776644
Subjects: Giro d'Italia (Bicycle race); Bicycle racing; History
Other titles: Story of the Giro d'Italia
Description: A richly written celebration of the Giro d'Italia in all its kaleidoscopic glory after more than one-hundred stagings of this desperately hard race.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The Giro is born; title: The early years; title: Salita famosa: Roccaraso, Abruzzo; title: Alfredo Binda: il Grande Antipatico; title: The Devil wears wool shorts; title: Salita famosa: Croce d'Aune, Veneto; title: Fascism and the Giro; title: Bartali and Coppi, Coppi and Bartali; title: Magni: il Terzo Uomo; title: Salita famosa: Passo dello Stelvio, Trentino-Alto Adige; title: Gracious Gimondi and merciless Merckx; title: Salita famosa: Blockhaus, Abruzzo; title: The sheriff and the rifle shot; title: Salita famosa: Tre Crime de Lavaredo, Veneto; title: Enter the Americans; title: The Sappada affair; title: 1988: fear and loathing in Lombardy; title: Marco Pantani; title: Salita famosa: Colle delle Finestre, Piemonte; title: A decade of difficulty; title: Salita famosa: Colle dell'Agnello, Piemonte; title: Then and now; title: Epilogue; title: List of winners.