The Beast, the Emperor and the Milkman A Bone-Shaking Tour Through Cycling's Flemish Heartlands

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Publisher's Synopsis

SHORTLISTED FOR THE TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2020 - CYCLING BOOK OF THE YEAR

LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019

'A joy.' - Ned Boulting


Every nation shapes sport to test the character traits it most admires.

In The Beast, the Emperor and the Milkman, committed Belgophile and road cycling obsessive Harry Pearson takes you on a journey across Flanders, through the lumpy horizontal rain, up the elbow juddering cobbled inclines, past the fans dressed as chickens and the shop window displays of constipation medicines, as he follows races big, small and even smaller through one glorious, muddy spring.

Ranging over 500 years of Flemish and European history, across windswept polders, along back roads and through an awful lot of beer cafes, Pearson examines the characters, the myths and rivalries that make Flanders a place where cycling is a religion and the riders its lycra-clad priests.

Book information

ISBN: 9781472945068
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Sport
Pub date:
DEWEY: 796.609493
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 272
Weight: 250g
Height: 129mm
Width: 197mm
Spine width: 20mm