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Adin Dobkin is the author of Sprinting Through No Man's Land and These Bones Can Speak. His reporting, criticism, and essays have been featured in the New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, The Paris Review Daily, and Catapult, among others. Adin teaches at the City University of New York. ...more

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	Sprinting Through No Man's Land: Endurance, Tragedy, and Rebirth in the 1919 Tour de France 3.49 avg rating — 3,182 ratings — published 2021 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“To their right, behind a row of nearer peaks, stood Mont Blanc, the tallest in Western Europe—a monument to those things humans can crawl their way up but not alter.”
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“Mounted on these machines, if equally proficient in the use of them, the average man and woman are nearly equal as they perhaps ever can be in any undertaking requiring muscular energy and skill.”
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