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Item Information   Holdings     Author Notes & Sketches     Booklist Review     First Chapter Excerpts     Summary     Table of Contents       More by this author     Lewis, Tim, author.     Subjects     Niyonshuti, Adrien.     Boyer, Jock, 1955-     Ritchey, Tom.     Kagamé, Paul, 1957-     Bicycle racing     Bicycle racing -- Rwanda.     Sports teams -- Rwanda.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Lewis, Tim, author.       by title:      The land of second c...         MARC Display

The land of second chances : the impossible rise of Rwanda's cycling team / Tim Lewis. by Lewis, Tim, author. Boulder, Colorado : Velopress, [2013] [2013] Subjects Niyonshuti, Adrien.   Boyer, Jock, 1955-   Ritchey, Tom.   Kagamé, Paul, 1957-   Bicycle racing   Bicycle racing -- Rwanda.   Sports teams -- Rwanda. Format:  No. of Holds for all sites :  0 Summary:  Hailed as “the sports book of the year,” Land of Second Chances is the astonishing true story of four men determined to rebuild the hopes of a broken nation. Meet Adrien Niyonshuti, Tom Ritchey, Jonathan Boyer, and Paul Kagame. In a land desperate for heroes, they confront impossible odds as they struggle to put an upstart cycling team on the map—and find redemption in the eyes of the world. Nearly two decades after the 1994 genocide that tore the country apart, the African nation of Rwanda remains haunted by its dark past. Yet modern Rwanda, a tiny, landlocked country dropped like a pebble on the equator, is a lush and beautiful land fertile with hope and searching for heroes who can help it forge a new identity. “Hero” is a heavy burden to lay on the slim shoulders of Adrien Niyonshuti, who was only seven years old during the genocide. Yet Rwanda’s best young cyclist is obsessed with earning a slot to compete in the London Olympic Games. Supporting Adrien is his coach, Jonathan Boyer, the first American to race in the Tour de France and a controversial figure whose hopes for Rwanda mirror his own personal struggle. Tom Ritchey is an inventor of the mountain bike who comes to Rwanda with money and a vision but who bears the weight of a personal crisis that threatens to undo the good he brings to Africa. And there is Paul Kagame, the president of Rwanda, a man piecing together an egalitarian future for his country but who is all too susceptible to the corruption of power. Land of Second Chances is the incredible true story of struggle, hope, and the life-giving promise of redemption through the unifying power of sport. Description:  331 pages, 8 pages of plates : colored illustrations ; 24 cm   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Madison Library District Non-fiction 796.62 Lewis, Tim / Land Checked In Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email Search Results to:

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