GIRONIMO!: RIDING THE VERY TERRIBLE 1914 TOUR OF ITALY
Book ID/图书代码： 11701214B67981
English Summary/英文概要： It is twelve years since Tim Moore slogged around the route of the Tour de France, and, distraught by ’Horrid Lance’ and co. despoiling the heroic image of cycling, he decides it’s time to reacquaint his feet with cleats and show these soft modern-day cyclists what a real challenge is.
A brief internet search later, he discovers the 1914 Giro d’Italia, the hardest bike race in history. Eighty-one riders started and only eight finished, after enduring cataclysmic storms, roads strewn with nails and even the loss of an eye by one competitor.
Undeterred, Tim sets off to cycle all 3,162km of it. For authenticity, he decides to do it on a 100-year-old bike, which, unburned by relevant experience, he opts to build himself. Fuelled by Chianti, wearing period leather goggles, a woollen jersey, and with an account of the 1914 Giro as his trusty companion, Tim sets off to tell the story of this historic race, as well as the travails of a middle-aged man cycling up a lot of large mountains on a mainly wooden bicycle.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 距离提姆•摩尔在环法自行车大赛上跋涉已经过去有十二年，一方面深受“可怕的兰斯”的影响，一边对于时下自行车运动中所谓英雄性时刻画面感到失望，他决定重新跨上自行车，为当今那些软弱的青年车手们看看什么才是真正的挑战。
在经过了一番简单的网络搜索后，他发现1914年的“遍布意大利”是迄今为止史上最困难的自行车比赛。81名选手参赛，最后却只有8名选手完成了赛程，在经历了可怕的暴风雨袭击后，赛车道上满是脱落的指甲，甚至还有一名参赛者因此失去了一只眼睛。
提姆并未因此而退缩，而是开始了这段长达3162千米的骑行之旅。为了确保整个过程的真实性，他决定用一辆已有100年历史的自行车完成征程，此前的赛况并没有削弱他的意志，他选择重建自己。喝完一杯基安蒂酒给自己鼓劲，戴上复古的皮质护目镜，穿上羊毛运动衫，以及他最信任的伴侣---1914年赛事的解说，提姆开始讲述他在这段历史赛段上的故事，以及一名中年自行车手骑着一辆木质赛车翻越无数高山的艰辛历程。（DC）
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About the Author/作者介绍： 提姆•摩尔，1964年出生于切屏诺顿，在偶然的结束了其学术生涯后，他找到了一份新闻记者的工作，使得他能够采访那些他从未听过的人，并撰写那些他衣物所知的主题---最明显的一个莫过于电脑游戏，他本人也因此关注该内容，不断温习长达三年之久。
1998年时，提姆偶然的踏上了益于身心健康的北极之旅，该趟旅程后启发他创作了大热漫画游记FROST ON MY MOUSTACHE其取名遗憾地源自于某笑话的关键语部分。随后他有创作了CONTINENTAL DRIFTER (2001) , FRENCH REVOLUTIONS (2001), DO NOT PASS GO (2002), SPANISH STEPS (2004), NUL POINTS (2006), I BELIEVE IN YESTERDAY (2008), and YOU ARE AWFUL (BUT I LIKE YOU) (2012). 在进行书籍创作的空闲时间里，他进行度假并为《每日电讯报》《卫报》《金融时报》及bbc的孤独星球杂志等撰稿。作者现与其妻子博娜及孩子们居住在伦敦西部。
Tim Moore was born in Chipping Norton in 1964. After a curiously truncated academic career he found journalistic employment interviewing people he’d never heard of and writing on subjects of which he knew nothing – most notably video games, which for three years he reviewed full-time.
In 1998 Tim accidentally embarked on the therapeutic Arctic voyage that was to spawn FROST ON MY MOUSTACHE, a critically-acclaimed comic travelogue that regrettably took its name from the punchline of an offensive joke. This was followed by CONTINENTAL DRIFTER (2001) , FRENCH REVOLUTIONS (2001), DO NOT PASS GO (2002), SPANISH STEPS (2004), NUL POINTS (2006), I BELIEVE IN YESTERDAY (2008), and YOU ARE AWFUL (BUT I LIKE YOU) (2012). In between books he goes on holidays and writes about them for the Daily Telegraph, the Observer, the Sunday Times, the Guardian, the Financial Times and BBC Lonely Planet Magazine. He lives in west London with his wife Birna and slightly too many children.
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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：Rights sold: UK: Yellow Jersey/ Random House (pub May 2014)
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