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Max Leonard: Higher Calling (2017, Penguin Random House) 3 stars

"Guaranteed to appeal to all lovers of cycling, the author of Lanterne Rouge explores the …

It’s fine. The Prologue was good, and thus encouraging, but the rest of the book wasn’t as interesting. It’s more of a list of “things cyclists do on mountains” than “why cyclists like mountains”, and there’s my usual bugbear of testosterone-fuelled conquering of mountains rather than the beauty of being amongst them.