• The Tour de France (beginning in July 2015) will persue a mountainous route similar to that described in the book.
• Mont Ventoux is particularly iconic in the minds of British cycling fans who remember Tom Simpson's death on the slope.
• Ventoux has sold over 140,000 copies in the Netherlands.
• Bert Wagendorp is a popular cycling columnist in the Netherlands.
• Advance reading copies available in January 2015.