Etape: The Untold Stories of the Tour De France’s Defining Stages

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A excellent book filled with fascinating information and stories of key moments. It is so easy to watch the Tour on TV and think you know what is going on but reading this book gives you a real insight of what actually happens with the riders, managers and strategy's of the Tour De France.Loved the fact that the author gave real depth to each chapter by telling you what happened to the characters after their careers finished.A really brilliant read and a must for anyone who enjoys cycling.

Richard Moore is a fine cycling writer. Previously I had read Slaying the Badger, about Greg LeMond and Bernard Hinault, and Tour de France 100, a photographic history of the Tour, both by the same author. Etape is a compilation of memorable, though not necessarily well known, stages of the Tour. Moore's writing, as always, is crisp, and his eye for detail shows the work of a real veteran journalist of the sport. Etape need not be read in a linear manner. I've skipped around quite a bit and enjoyed all the chapters. I have found this to be a perfect travel/airplane book. I think this will be a volume in my cycling library that I keep coming back to. If you love the sport, you'll love the episodes recounted herein. And even if you're familiar with some of the stages, many of the juicier details will be new.

Great book that describes some of the most defining stages of the Tour de France. Mr. Moore paints a wonderful backstory, tells what happens during the stage good, and then kind of does a where are they now segment at the end, but that usually is about 1-2 pages at most. Really good book for a cycling enthusiast, as there is a lot of lingo and talks about a lot of smaller races that a true cycling fan would know but for someone like myself who casually checks the standings at the end of July, would not. Book was fine overall though. Great prose, and flowed throughout the entire book. I would pick up if you are into cycling and not someone who is new or doesn't know much about it.

Many years ago, my wife and I started watching the daily summaries of the Tour de France stages. We would do it to check out the landscapes and sights of each region of France, while daydreaming on future holidays. Soon enough we were captured by the Tour itself, the feats of the riders, their passion and intensity, and the increasing understanding of the team work and hierarchies at play. Through its twenty chapters, each one about a memorable stage of the modern era Tour, this book captures all of that, and more. The book compiles interviews with many great ones, known and unknown, heroes and villains, clean and dirty riders. It is an easy and enjoyable read, for those who know the Tour it allows to reminisce on cherished memories, and for all others it is a window into one of the greatest contests in sports.