LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019bbrbrb'A joy.' ? Ned BoultingbbrbrEvery nation shapes sport to test the character traits it most admires.brbrIn iThe Beast, the peror and the Milkmani, committed Belgophile and road cycling obsessive Harry Pearson takes you on a journey across Flanders, through the lumpy horizontal rain, up the elbow juddering cobbled inclines, past the fans dressed as chickens and the shop window displays of constipation medicines, as he follows races big, small and even smaller through one glorious, muddy spring.brbrRanging over 500 years of Flish and European history, across windswept polders, along back roads and through an awful lot of beer cafes, Pearson examines the characters, the myths and rivalries that make Flanders a place where cycling is a religion and the riders its lycra-clad priests.
The Beast, the peror and the Milkman
Harry Pearson
You can no more imagine Flanders without bicycles than France without garlic, or Germany without sausages. A journey through the wild madness of bicycle racing in Flanders.Material available
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Imprint: Bloomsbury Sport brPublication date: 07022019 brFormat: 234 x 153 mm | 272 pagesAbout the Author
Harry Pearson has been shortlisted for both the William Hill and the Thomas CookDaily Telegraph prizes. iSlipless in Settlei was the 2012 MCCCricket Society Book of the Year and iConnie: The Marvellous Life of Learie Constantinei won the award in 2018. iThe Far Corneri has been named as one of the fifty greatest sports books of all time by both iThe Timesi and the iObserveri. His book iA Tall Man in a Low Landi is the bestselling English language travelogue about Belgium.
