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Another Fine Mess by Tim Moore
Category: Travel
Tim Moore - indefatigable travelling everyman - switches two wheels for four as he journeys across Trumpland in an original Model T Ford. Lacking any mechanical knowledge or intuition, he sets off to bully a car from East to West armed only with a top speed of 25 mph, a fan belt made of cotton, wood ...Show more
Believe in Yesterday: My Adventures in Living History by Tim Moore
Category: History
In 1989, Tim Moore moved into the last house in Chiswick with an outside toilet. Intrigued by a subsequent encounter with an elderly former resident, and shamed to confess the phobic haste with which he demolished this facility, he finds himself inspired to travel back to the land before now, experienci ...Show more
Do Not Pass Go by Tim Moore
Category: Travel Literature
Acclaimed comic writer Tim Moore travels through the best and the worst that the city of London has to offer. He will stay in a hotel in the Old Kent Road and Mayfair; visit Pentonville prison; search for Free Parking; contemplate how the grotty cul-de-sac that is Vine Street made it onto the board; vis ...Show more
Do Not Pass Go:From the Old Kent Road to Mayfair by Tim Moore
Category: Travel Literature
A book that tells the story of London since the thirties through the 28 streets, stations and utililties of the Monopoly board . In the wonderful world of Monopoly it still only cost -50 to buy a house in Islington, you can move around London with the shake of a dice and even park your car for free.In D ...Show more
French Revolutions: Cycling the Tour De France by Tim Moore
Category: Sports and Hobbies
Self-confessed loafter Tim Moore, seduced by the speed and glamour of the biggest annual sporting event in the world, sets out to cycle the course of the Tour de France. All 3,630km of it. Racing old men on butchers' bikes and being chased by cows, Moore soon resorts to standard race tactics - cheating ...Show more
French Revolutions : Cycling the Tour de France by Tim Moore
Category: Travel Literature
Battling it out with the old men on butchers' bikes across the plains of Aquitaine and pursued by cattle over Europe's second highest road, Moore soon finds himself resorting to narcotic assistance, systematic overeating and waxed legs before summoning a support vehicle staffed by cruelly sceptical fami ...Show more
Gironimo!: Riding the Very Terrible 1914 Tour of Italy by Tim Moore
Category: Travel
The author of the bestselling French Revolutions does Italy -- cycling the course of the 1914 Giro d'Italia on a wooden bike. On the eve of the Giro d'Italia's 100th anniversary, Tim Moore sets out to cycle the route of the first race, all 3,162 km of it. On a 100-year-old bike. That he built himse ...Show more
Gironimo!: Riding the Very Terrible 1914 Tour of Italy by Tim Moore
Category: Sports and Hobbies
It is twelve years since Tim Moore slogged around the route of the Tour de France, and, distraught by 'Horrid Lance' and co. despoiling the heroic image of cycling, he decides it's time to reacquaint his feet with cleats and show these soft modern-day cyclists what a real challenge is. A brief internet ...Show more
I Believe in Yesterday: A 2000 Year Tour Through the Filth and Fury of Living History by Tim Moore
Category: History
In 1989, Tim Moore moved into the last house in Chiswick with an outside toilet. Intrigued by a subsequent encounter with an elderly former resident, he finds himself inspired to travel back to the land before now, experiencing the hardships and homespun pleasures enjoyed and endured by Moore's gone by. ...Show more
Spanish Steps by Tim Moore
Category: Travel Literature
Being larger than a cat, the donkey is the kind of animal Tim Moore is slightly scared of. Yet intrigued by epic accounts of a pilgrimage undertaken by one in three medieval Europeans, and committed to historical authenticity, he finds himself leading a Pyrenean ass named Shinto into Spain, headed for S ...Show more