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The Accidental Tour-Ist
The Accidental Tour-Ist
(Final) Dispatches From the Road
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Bloomsbury
Hardcover
280 pp
8/26/2025
From the renowned author of 1923 and How I Won The Yellow Jumper comes an insider's view of the madness of the modern professional peloton on the road.
The Accidental Tour-ist charts the intervening years, since Ned Boulting closed the final chapter of How I Won The Yellow Jumper in 2010 – with Alberto Contador being stripped of his title for a doping violation, the last rider to be punished in that manner, and following on a succession of rotten victories which underscored the chaotic post-Armstrong era.
If that first book was the teenager; a bit daft, a bit puppyish and full of random enthusiasms, then this book is the same teenager grown a little older, a little wiser and groaning occasionally when standing up from a commentary chair after a six hour shift. But still – at its heart – it speaks with the same voice: one that cannot help but ask, ‘what the hell is this thing? And how did I end up here?’
From Bilbao to Copenhagen, Florence to Lille, criss-crossing the continent or stuck during Covid in a car park in Kent going faintly mad while Roy Keane gave Ned advice he ignored about playing “Wall Ball”, the voyage alongside the voyage is as much a part of the texture of the book as ever . . . but The Accidental Tour-ist also looks beyond the confines of just the Tour de France, to encompass other races and other countries, too.
If that first book was the teenager; a bit daft, a bit puppyish and full of random enthusiasms, then this book is the same teenager grown a little older, a little wiser and groaning occasionally when standing up from a commentary chair after a six hour shift. But still – at its heart – it speaks with the same voice: one that cannot help but ask, ‘what the hell is this thing? And how did I end up here?’
From Bilbao to Copenhagen, Florence to Lille, criss-crossing the continent or stuck during Covid in a car park in Kent going faintly mad while Roy Keane gave Ned advice he ignored about playing “Wall Ball”, the voyage alongside the voyage is as much a part of the texture of the book as ever . . . but The Accidental Tour-ist also looks beyond the confines of just the Tour de France, to encompass other races and other countries, too.
