Tour de Oz: The Extraordinary Story of the First Bicycle Race Around Australia by Bret Harris

Tour de Oz: The Extraordinary Story of the First Bicycle Race Around Australia

Bret Harris

336 pages • first pub 2017 (view editions)

nonfiction historical history adventurous informative slow-paced
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Four years before the inaugural Tour de France, four cyclists known as 'Overlanders' set out on a race around Australia.On 24 November 1896 a wiry and wily bushman named Arthur Richardson left Coolgardie for Adelaide by bicycle. Carrying only a sm...

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