The Invisible Mile David Coventry by David Coventry 9781609453985, 1609453980 instant download after payment.

Based on a true story, The Invisible Mile is a superbly written novel about
determination, teamwork, family, national healing, and facing one's demons.
It will delight readers of both The Boys in the Boat and The English Patient.
In 1928, the Ravat-Wonder cycling team became the first ever English-speaking peloton to compete in the Tour de France. The riders came from faraway New Zealand and Australia and were treated as exotics. The team was underfinanced and undertrained; they faced one of the toughest routes in the race's history, 5,476 kilometers over unsealed roads through a landscape heavy with the legacy of the Great War. 162 cyclists began the race that year; only 42 finished. At the start of the Tour, nobody expected the Ravat-Wonder team to last more than a few hundred kilometers. Instead, their achievements captured the imagination of a nation scarred by recent war and signaled the transformation of the Tour into a truly international...