"Paris-Roubaix: The Inside Story" is a new book by Les Woodland on the legendary French road race, published by McGann Publishing. Woodland tells the inside story: how one of cycling's classics grew from several 19th century businessmen's plan to bring cycling to the mill town of Roubaix.
Woodland has been cycling for 50 years and has been writing about cycling since 1965, when he wrote his first reports for the British publication Cycling. Since then he has been a prolific contributor to newspapers, magazines and radio stations in the U.K. and Belgium. Woodland lives in France and speaks English, Dutch and French. At last count he has written 27 books, nearly all about cycling.
The book is available as Kindle eBook from Amazon and in print from Amazon and B&N. The 198-page paperback has a MSRP of $15.95.