Product Details
Hardcover
168 pages
5 Continents
Published 2005
Book Description
In the year 2000 Paolo Pellizzari had the opportunity to follow the Tour de France and published a book called La France du Tour. With the support of the International Cycling Union and National Cycling Federations, he spent three years following many different cycling tours that took him all over the world. This book is composed of ninety superb colour photographs from seventeen cycling tours in many different countries. The diversity of the landscapes and crowds, captured here on film, are fantastic. It shows the extraordinary popularity of cycling in the world and demonstrates its free spirit.
Tours featured:
Golan Cycling Tour, Syria; Tour du Faso, Burkina Faso; Tour de QuingHai Lake, China; Doble Copacabana, Bolivia; Tour de Langkawi, Malasia; Vuelta Chile, Chile; Gand Prix de Beauce, Canada; FBD Milk Ras, Ireland; Giro d’Italia, Italy; Tour de France, France; Vuelta a Espana, Spain; Vuelta a Guatemala, Guatemala; Tour Down Under, Australia; Trust House Classic, New Zealand; Giro del capo, South Africa; Giro di Eritrea, Eritrea; Course de la Paix, Czech Republic.
From the Publisher
Ninety superb color photographs of sport cycling tours from France, Spain, Ireland, Chile, Guatemala, Syria and many other countries
A truly international look at one of the world’s most popular sports, full of striking images of cyclists, natural landscape, cities and towns, and wildly enthusiastic spectators
The result of the photographer’s three-year project shadowing eighteen tours by motorbike
About the Author
Paolo Pellizzari, 48 years old, is Italian and lives in Belgium. He is a civil engineer and has an MBA from INSEAD in France. After a career in business, he became a full-time photographer. In 2003 he published a book on India, One Billion Indians, published in three separate editions by 5 Continents Editions (Italian, French and English). |
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