Author: Finch MasonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Horse racing
Languages : en
Pages : 602
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Heroes and Heroines of the Grand National
Author: Finch MasonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Horse racing
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Heroes and Heroines of the Grand National
Author: Finch MasonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781375524513
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Heroes and heroines of the Grand national
Author: George Finch MasonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Steeplechasing
Languages : en
Pages : 439
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Heroes and Heroines of the Grand National
Author: Finch MasonPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780331743029
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Excerpt from Heroes and Heroines of the Grand National: Containing: A Complete Account of Every Race From Its Foundation in 1839 to the Present Year, Together With All Information of Interest in Connection Therewith The issue, indeed, was never in doubt for a moment, one and all of those appealed to responding SO readily that he might well sit down in his saddle to write the first chapter, strong in the conviction that with such a start there could be no doubt of the result - no possible doubt whatever. For the earlier races, Bel/s Life in London, and other newspapers of the period, had Of course to be levied under contribution, and it was not until 1860 that those hardy veterans Mr. Thomas and Mr. E. C. Burton chipped in with their interesting reminis cences Of Anatis, Bridegroom, Alcibiade, The Lamb, and Pathfinder, to be closely followed by Mr. J. M. Richardson, Mr. Garrett Moore, Prince Charles Kinsky, Lord Manners, Joe Cannon and Mr. E. P. Wilson, with anecdotes of the respective horses they had piloted to victory. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Grand National, 1839-1930
Author: David Hoadley MunroePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Grand National (Horse race)
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
The Grand National
Author: Anne HollandPublisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 1474612008
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Every year the Grand National produces very different stories from jockeys and horses alike; uplifting scenes from a victor and heartbreak when a mere inch divides the loser from the winner at the end of nearly four-and-a-half miles and thirty challenging fences. In 1839 the first winner was aptly named Lottery. Back then, huge crowds rode to Aintree by horseback, in carriages, carts or on foot. Today the Grand National is probably the world's most famous horse race, with a global television audience of some 600 million in 140 countries. This richly informed book focuses on the race's various record-breakers, rather than being a purely chronological history of this greatest of all steeplechases. Many records have stood the test of time: in 2019, Tiger Roll's second consecutive victory was the first time that the feat had been achieved since Red Rum in 1973-74. Anne Holland's authoritative history celebrates one of the world's greatest sporting spectacles. 'A well-organised and cheerily anecdotal volume' Spectator
The Foxhound and National Horse Breeding Notes
Author: Women Warriors and National Heroes
Author: Boyd CothranPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350121142
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. This volume presents women warriors and hero cults from a number of cultures since the early modern period. The first truly global study of women warriors, individual chapters examine figures such as Joan of Arc in Cairo, revenging daughters in Samurai Japan, a transgender Mexican revolutionary and WWII Chinese spies. Exploring issues of violence, gender fluidity, memory and nation-building, the authors discuss how these real or imagined female figures were constructed and deployed in different national and transnational contexts. Divided into four parts, they explore how women warriors and their stories were created, consider the issue of the violent woman, discuss how these female figures were gendered, and highlight the fate of women warriors who live on. The chapters illustrate the ways in which female fighters have figured in nation-building stories and in the ordering or re-ordering of gender politics, and give the history of women fighters a critical edge. Exploring women as military actors, women after war, and the strategic use of women's stories in national narratives, this intellectually innovative volume provides the first global treatment of women warriors and their histories.
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