Land of Second Chances
The Impossible Rise of Rwanda's Cycling Team
by Tim Lewis
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appears in Cycling and Nonfiction.
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?a...
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appears in Cycling and Nonfiction.
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