1923When cycling commentator Ned Boulting bought a length of Path news film featuring a stage of the Tour de France from 1923 he set about learning everything he could about it taking him on an intriguing journey that encompasses travelogue, history and detective story. In the autumn of 2020 Ned Boulting (ITV head cycling commentator and Tour de France obsessive) bought a length of Path news film from a London auction house. All he knew was it was film

traybakes and 30 minute meals

a salesman in Copenhagen

alongside chain smoking pensioners

It's humanity's last hope for survival

Lively explores with keen insight the ways that individuals can become tangled in history

defend its frontiers and control the seas but also to act as the engine of the state

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It's hard to imagine Italy without pasta

Everywhere she turns

she has turned it into an ark

and the 12 lunar signs

A collection of classic travel poems introduced by novelist and prize-winning travel writer