Etape: The Untold Stories of the Tour de France's Defining Stages

In Etape, critically acclaimed author Richard Moore will take readers on a virtual Tour de France, with each chapter focusing on a single rider in a single stage that came to define the Tour's history

Chris Boardman's "superbike" ride at the Prologue in 1994; Lance Armstrong's now infamous stage 3 in 2009; Sean Yates' time trial at Wasquehal in 1988; these and other stages have earned a place in our memory and come to define the Tour de France throughout its 100-year history.

In Etape, acclaimed author Richard Moore looks back at the pivotal moments in the world's most celebrated road race to explore that indefinable quality of greatness. These rides may not all have ended with victory -- in fact some are moments of glorious failure -- but each contributed something to our lasting memory of the sport and thrilled and entertained us in the way that only great sporting endeavour can.

Etape is a thoughtful, engaging and vividly recounted story of sporting greatness full of unique insights and details that will shift as much as confirm our appreciation of the sport.