{"product_id":"the-escape-the-tour-the-cyclist-and-me-9780008510602","title":"The Escape: The Tour, the Cyclist and Me","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): David Walsh\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: HarperCollins Publishers\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA unique memoir from British cycling’s most fascinating competitor\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the summer of 2020 sportswriter David Walsh asked Pippa York if she’d be interested to be his travelling companion for the Tour de France. The deal was that he would sort out the logistics beforehand, the hotels, the transport details and she would do the day to day tasks of getting them about and adding her insight occasionally. It would also mean she would return to the race she had ridden eleven times as Robert Millar.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is the resulting book: a unique and entertaining sporting odyssey, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Escape\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e uses the minutiae of Pippa and David’s trip, and the iconic landmarks of the Tour de France, to explore her early life growing up in working class Glasgow; her entry into racing; the psychological aspects of the sport and how that manifested itself in her personality; her ups and downs as a competitor; her post-career and her eventual transition in her 40s.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTouching on doping, gender in sport and the unique wonders and day-to-day challenges of the Tour, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Escape\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is both an unforgettable travelogue through the world’s greatest cycling event and a one-of-a-kind memoir from arguably the sport’s most enigmatic and fascinating competitors.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45848518557847,"sku":"9780008510602","price":1939.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780008510602.webp?v=1769298128","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-escape-the-tour-the-cyclist-and-me-9780008510602","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}