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Boulting's Velsaurus: A Linguistic Tour de France
Ned Boulting
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Description for Boulting's Velsaurus: A Linguistic Tour de France
Hardcover. The language of cycling is vibrant, sophisticated, often impenetrable and extremely French. Find yourself confused, nodding along when a rouleur relates how le biscuit was effrite (crumbled)? How today they're feeling Angers (past caring)? The author provides the ultimate lexicon of nonsense terminology surrounding the esteemed Tour de France. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; WSQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 207 x 26. Weight in Grams: 344.
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 surrounding the esteemed Tour de France. Featuring essential vocabulary like Alpe (an Alp), panache (riding with doomed flamboyance, conscious of the need to renew one's contract), moutarde (any race that ends, begins or passes through the city ... Read more
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 surrounding the esteemed Tour de France. Featuring essential vocabulary like Alpe (an Alp), panache (riding with doomed flamboyance, conscious of the need to renew one's contract), moutarde (any race that ends, begins or passes through the city ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Yellow Jersey Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780224100649
SKU
V9780224100649
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-74
About 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 ... Read more
Reviews for Boulting's Velsaurus: A Linguistic Tour de France
It's a dip in and smile book that deserves to be on any Tour de France fan's shelf.
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