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Graham Watson's Tour de France Travel Guide: The Complete Insider's Guide to the Tour!
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Product Description
Graham Watson’s Tour de France Travel Guide lets cycling fans experience all the excitement of the Tour while negotiating its many daily obstacles with the confidence of a local. As cycling’s leading photographer, Graham Watson has been in the right place at the right time during every stage of every Tour de France since 1977. No one knows how to get around the Tour like Graham. Graham shares his 31 years of Tour de France experience in this beautifully illustrated guidebook. Featuring over 200 of his award-winning photographs along with full-color maps, travel tips, checklists, and travel resources, this book presents a fresh and unique strategy for getting around the Tour’s many opportunities for frustration to find a front-row seat for all the action. Learn where to eat, where to sleep, how to get around, how to see and photograph the race, and how to enjoy the greatest show on two wheels.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #30123 in Books
- Published on: 2009-06-09
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 340 pages
Features
- ISBN13: 9781934030387
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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About the Author
Graham Watson has devoted his celebrated career to the art of cycling photography. His renowned work has been published in magazines, books, newspapers, posters, calendars, journals, and Web sites on every continent, and his reputation is founded on more than three decades of experience photographing the great cycling races of Europe, North America, Australia and Asia. He has covered the Tour de France each year since first seeing it in 1977 as a tourist, traveling today both within the Tour press corps and on his own to scout the best vantage points for his unique photography. An oenophile and gastronome, Graham has collected an extensive library of information on the best restaurants, hotels, bistros, brasseries, bars and auberges of France, which he shares in this insider’s guide to the world’s greatest bicycle race. And as the most experienced photographer still shooting the Tour, Graham’s professional photography advice, in a dedicated chapter, provides unparalleled insight for camera enthusiasts aiming to capture the Tour in their own photographs.
Customer Reviews
Great summary of TDF!
Great summary from the best photographer of the TDF, Graham Watson. Insights into travel tips, tour recommendations, classic stages and climbs, legendary tour participants and history of the tour. Filled with Graham's great photo's to make for a visually appealing read. Not necessarily the best travel guide but a great resource for anyone seriously considering to see the TDF first hand. Also includes insights into Grahams photographic techniques for capturing this majestic sport.
Great for any biker or wannabe!
This book has a great cover with a heavy inside jacket when opened up. Gave it as a gift and was greatly appreciated by my brother who is an avid biker.
Tour de France travel guide
Although I had some of this information previously, the book reiterated what I'd already found out, and in addition had very useful information on following the Tour, the regions of France, the mountains of the Tour, and photography tips (that's what Graham Watson does). For someone just beginning, his planning & travel tips would be very welcome and a good starting point for planninga trip. All in all, a fast read, with nice color photographs, and a fair amount of practical information.
