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Charly Gaul is a forgotten cycling legend. Once a household name across Europe, the diminutive Luxembourger won the 1958 Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia twice. A unique rider, Gaul was supremely gifted at climbing and resilient even in the foulest weather. His pedalling style was smooth and swift, and he could set an unmatchable metronome rhythm on a mountain climb. 'Mozart on two wheels, ' was how one contemporary writer described him, a...

Vive le Midi! Duftende Lavendelfelder, milde Meeresbrisen, authentische Bauernmärkte und herzliche Menschen: Südfrankreich ist eine absolute Traumregion. Hilke Maunder fängt diese Stimmung in »Le Midi« für uns ein. Dafür reiste sie mit Fotograf Thomas Müller durch ihre Wahlheimat und machte sich auf die Suche nach den besten Rezepten und typischsten Spezialitäten der südfranzösischen Küche. Mit außergewöhnlichem Auge für Menschen & Food hielt...

You cannot run away from what haunts you. A Gothic story of madness, revenge and Uranium-235.

A beautifully written exploration of the links between cycling, creativity and the landscape. In this deeply personal and lyrical exploration of what it means to ride a bicycle, Paul Maunder explores how our memories have a dialogue with landscape and how cycling and creativity are connected. Taking a journey through the places that have shaped him, we ride across wild moorland, through suburbia and city streets, into quintessentially English ...

A lone cyclist, disappearing into a wild landscape--brave, free, engaged with the world. It's the kind of image that sells bikes, magazines, clothing, a romantic image that all cyclists aspire to. For cycling is an activity deeply and intimately involved with landscape. The bicycle allows us to explore, to engage with wild places, and return in time for dinner. It also allows us to investigate our surroundings closer to home. It is an activity...

Cyclocross is no longer cycling's hidden gem. Its rapid growth in the US--and its new popularity as off-season training--means this intense and dramatic sport is exploding into the mainstream. With a season running from September to February, cyclocross is cycling's only purely winter discipline, demanding a combination of athleticism, supreme technical skill, and ruthless tactics for the muddy conditions.In the sport's heartland of Belgium, m...

An observer's account of the Pike River coal mine explosion that killed 29 miners on New Zealand's South Island questions what the miner deaths mean for workplace health and safety. As it debates the future of coal mining in the current climate of change and explains how the West Coast has moved on from the center of radicalism it represented in the early 20th century, this book also analyzes the economic and political aspects associated with ...