Book review: Le Tour: Race Log

Published by Lyn on 30 June 2016

Julia Stagg reviews Le Tour: Race Log by Claire Beaumont and Neil Stevens, a lovely little souvenir book for all Tour de France fans.

Le Tour: Race Log by Claire Beaumont and Neil Stevens

Le Tour: Race Log by Claire Beaumont and Neil Stevens

Le Tour: Race Log
by Claire Beaumont and Neil Stevens
(Laurence King Publishing)

With the Tour de France just around the corner, Le Tour: Race Log is a whimsical way to get into the spirit of the great race. Offering the enthusiast the chance to record the action of each stage in detail – start town, finish town, weather, sprints ... there’s even the opportunity to note down crashes – this beautifully presented bright yellow pocket book is a delight.

Le Tour: Race Log by Claire Beaumont and Neil Stevens

Le Tour: Race Log by Claire Beaumont and Neil Stevens

Le Tour: Race Log by Claire Beaumont and Neil Stevens

Le Tour: Race Log by Claire Beaumont and Neil Stevens

In a perfect combination of colourful maps and wonderful illustrations, it offers more than just a notebook for jotting down personal observations. Interspersed between stages, small bites of background to this great sporting spectacle provide insight and, for cycling newcomers, a wonderful introduction to some of the quirkier aspects of the race. Even for the more established fan, Le Tour Race Log is guaranteed to raise a smile.

Le Tour: Race Log (UK, US) by Claire Beaumont and Neil Stevens is published by Laurence King Publishing.

Our guest reviewer Julia Stagg writes fiction set in the Ariège region of the French Pyrenees, an area she discovered through her passion for cycling. Her latest novel, Last Chance in the Pyrenees, is available now, published by Hodder and Stoughton. You can follow her @DalesWriter or join her on Facebook.

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