[CR]Really good read!

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Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 05:31:49 -0700
From: "Steven L. Sheffield" <stevens@veloworks.com>
To: Classic Rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: [CR]Really good read!

Kings of the Mountains: How Colombia's Cycling Heroes Changed Their Nation's History by Matt Rendell

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1854109111/ref=ase_veluninc/00 2-4848737-1594426?v=glance&s=books (PB)

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1854108379/ref=ase_veluninc/00 2-4848737-1594426?v=glance&s=books (HC)

Meticulous, elegant and sensitive, Kings of the Mountains works both as a panegyric to the sporting heroes of a troubled land and as a more general meditation on motifs key to sport and to nationalism: politics, religion, pride, pain and glory.

In turns funny, reflective and passionate, Kings of the Mountains is part cycling history, part travelogue and part social analysis...

And much of the story is in the timeline, including Fausto Coppi's one and only visit to ride in the Vuelta a Colombia.

Steven L. Sheffield Getting inspired to actually try to make it to the top of one of the local mountains (which can top out at a mere 8-10 thousand feet) in Salt Lake City, Utah!

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