Battling it out with the old men on butchers' bikes across the plains of Aquitaine and pursued by cattle over Europe's second highest road, Moore soon finds himself resorting to narcotic assistance, systematic overeating and waxed legs before summoning a support vehicle staffed by cruelly sceptical family and friends. Accounts of his suffering and chicanery, and those encountered in the race's epic history, are interwoven through a look at rural France busy tarting itself up for those 15 seconds of fame as the Tour careers through at 50kph. An heroic depiction of an inadequate man's attempt to achieve the unachievable, Moore's Tour is a tale of calorific excess, ludicrous clothing and intimate discomfort.
- ISBN10 1856867250
- ISBN13 9781856867252
- Publish Date 5 July 2001
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 29 August 2015
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Cornerstone
- Imprint Random House Audiobooks
- Format Audiobook (CD)
- Pages 180
- Language English