Boulting's Velosaurus
A Linguistic Tour de France
- Hardcover
256 pages
- Release Date
15 October 2016
Summary
‘A must-have - yet completely fake - glossary of essential, though non-existent, cycling terms.’
Find yourself confused, nodding along when a rouleur relates how le biscuit was effrite (crumbled)? How today they’re feeling Angers (past caring)?
Fear no more, for Boulting’s Velosaurus will illuminate, enlighten and, frankly, mislead.
In his Velosaurus, ITV Tour de France commentator and cycling writer Ned Boulting provides the ultimate lexicon of nonsense terminology su…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780224100649 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0224100645 |
| Author: | Ned Boulting |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Yellow Jersey Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 15 October 2016 |
| Weight: | 345g |
| Dimensions: | 26mm x 138mm x 204mm |
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Critics Review
“It’s a ‘dip in and smile’ book that deserves to be on any Tour de France fan’s shelf.” – Cycle
It’s a “dip in and smile” book that deserves to be on any Tour de France fan’s shelf. * Cycle *
Ned Boulting
Ned Boulting started his broadcasting career at Sky in 1997, working as a reporter alongside Jeff Stelling on the now legendary show Soccer Saturday. In 2006 he was given the Royal Television Society’s Sports Reporter of the Year Award. In addition to his work as a football reporter for ITV, he has now presented seven Tours of Britain, the Vuelta Espana, the Tour of California as well as the Tour Series and the inaugural Women’s Tour. He has contributed features and live reports on twelve Tours de France. He is the author of the much-loved books How I Won the Yellow Jumper and On the Road Bike.
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