Author: Alexander Cordell
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 1473603900
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 563
Book Description
Jim Driscoll, adopted Welshman, one of the greatest boxers who ever lived. Robust, hot-headed, a born fighter - and a legend in his own lifetime. Moving between South Wales, London and America in the early years of the twentieth century, this is the dramatic story of a true-life sporting hero - a story of fierce pride and burning ambition, but also of human weakness and a love that survives against all odds.
Peerless Jim
Author: Alexander Cordell
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 1473603900
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 563
Book Description
Jim Driscoll, adopted Welshman, one of the greatest boxers who ever lived. Robust, hot-headed, a born fighter - and a legend in his own lifetime. Moving between South Wales, London and America in the early years of the twentieth century, this is the dramatic story of a true-life sporting hero - a story of fierce pride and burning ambition, but also of human weakness and a love that survives against all odds.
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 1473603900
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 563
Book Description
Jim Driscoll, adopted Welshman, one of the greatest boxers who ever lived. Robust, hot-headed, a born fighter - and a legend in his own lifetime. Moving between South Wales, London and America in the early years of the twentieth century, this is the dramatic story of a true-life sporting hero - a story of fierce pride and burning ambition, but also of human weakness and a love that survives against all odds.
Axed Between the Ears
Author: David Kitchen
Publisher: Heinemann
ISBN: 9780435145309
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
A collection of poems and activities designed to win over the most reluctant 14- to 16-year-olds
Publisher: Heinemann
ISBN: 9780435145309
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
A collection of poems and activities designed to win over the most reluctant 14- to 16-year-olds
Wales and Its Boxers
Author: Peter Stead
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
"Wales and its Boxers charts the emergence on a world stage of a nation of fighters, from bareknuckle mountain fighting to title fights watched by audiences around the world." "The identification of sport and society has always been a central concern in Wales. In a series of fascinating essays, Wales and its Boxers traces the way in which great fighters have shaped and then reflected a national consciousness over decades, bringing the discussion up to date as present and now-emerging generations of fighters carry forward a clearly undiminished enthusiasm for the sport in Wales - led inevitably by Joe Calzaghe, perhaps the best British boxer of the modern era." --Book Jacket.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
"Wales and its Boxers charts the emergence on a world stage of a nation of fighters, from bareknuckle mountain fighting to title fights watched by audiences around the world." "The identification of sport and society has always been a central concern in Wales. In a series of fascinating essays, Wales and its Boxers traces the way in which great fighters have shaped and then reflected a national consciousness over decades, bringing the discussion up to date as present and now-emerging generations of fighters carry forward a clearly undiminished enthusiasm for the sport in Wales - led inevitably by Joe Calzaghe, perhaps the best British boxer of the modern era." --Book Jacket.
Fort Lee
Author:
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738545011
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
A favorite locale of such film pioneers as D. W. Griffith and Mary Pickford, the historic borough of Fort Lee was the first center of the American motion picture industry. Studios lined both sides of Main Street, and enormous film laboratories fed the nickelodeon market with thousands of reels of comedies and cliffhangers. Broadway stars and producers came here to make many of their first feature-length films; but by the 1920s, Theda Bara, Fatty Arbuckle, and Douglas Fairbanks were gone. Yet even after the studios closed down, the film industry was still the backbone of the local economy, with hundreds working behind the scenes in the printing, storage, and distribution of movies being made in Hollywood.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738545011
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
A favorite locale of such film pioneers as D. W. Griffith and Mary Pickford, the historic borough of Fort Lee was the first center of the American motion picture industry. Studios lined both sides of Main Street, and enormous film laboratories fed the nickelodeon market with thousands of reels of comedies and cliffhangers. Broadway stars and producers came here to make many of their first feature-length films; but by the 1920s, Theda Bara, Fatty Arbuckle, and Douglas Fairbanks were gone. Yet even after the studios closed down, the film industry was still the backbone of the local economy, with hundreds working behind the scenes in the printing, storage, and distribution of movies being made in Hollywood.
The American Aberdeen-Angus Herd-book
Author: American Aberdeen-Angus Breeders' Association
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aberdeen-Angus cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aberdeen-Angus cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Peerless Jim
Author: Alexander Cordell
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1473603900
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 563
Book Description
Jim Driscoll, adopted Welshman, one of the greatest boxers who ever lived. Robust, hot-headed, a born fighter - and a legend in his own lifetime. Moving between South Wales, London and America in the early years of the twentieth century, this is the dramatic story of a true-life sporting hero - a story of fierce pride and burning ambition, but also of human weakness and a love that survives against all odds.
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1473603900
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 563
Book Description
Jim Driscoll, adopted Welshman, one of the greatest boxers who ever lived. Robust, hot-headed, a born fighter - and a legend in his own lifetime. Moving between South Wales, London and America in the early years of the twentieth century, this is the dramatic story of a true-life sporting hero - a story of fierce pride and burning ambition, but also of human weakness and a love that survives against all odds.
A Concise History of Wales
Author: Geraint H. Jenkins
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521823676
Category : Wales
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
Based on the most recent historical research and current debates about Wales and Welshness, this volume offers the most up-to-date, authoritative and accessible account of the period from Neanderthal times to the opening of the Senedd, the new home of the National Assembly for Wales, in 2006. Within a remarkably brief and stimulating compass, Geraint H. Jenkins explores the emergence of Wales as a nation, its changing identities and values, and the transformations its people experienced and survived throughout the centuries. In the face of seemingly overwhelming odds, the Welsh never reconciled themselves to political, social and cultural subordination, and developed ingenious ways of maintaining a distinctive sense of their otherness. The book ends with the coming of political devolution and the emergence of a greater measure of cultural pluralism. Professor Jenkins's lavishly illustrated volume provides enthralling material for scholars, students, general readers, and travellers to Wales.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521823676
Category : Wales
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
Based on the most recent historical research and current debates about Wales and Welshness, this volume offers the most up-to-date, authoritative and accessible account of the period from Neanderthal times to the opening of the Senedd, the new home of the National Assembly for Wales, in 2006. Within a remarkably brief and stimulating compass, Geraint H. Jenkins explores the emergence of Wales as a nation, its changing identities and values, and the transformations its people experienced and survived throughout the centuries. In the face of seemingly overwhelming odds, the Welsh never reconciled themselves to political, social and cultural subordination, and developed ingenious ways of maintaining a distinctive sense of their otherness. The book ends with the coming of political devolution and the emergence of a greater measure of cultural pluralism. Professor Jenkins's lavishly illustrated volume provides enthralling material for scholars, students, general readers, and travellers to Wales.
A Tolerant Nation?
Author:
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1783161892
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Combines historical and contemporary material. Draws on historical, sociological, cultural and literary approaches. Full revised and up-to-date edition of a classic book in the field. Covers the whole field in one volume.
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1783161892
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Combines historical and contemporary material. Draws on historical, sociological, cultural and literary approaches. Full revised and up-to-date edition of a classic book in the field. Covers the whole field in one volume.
The American Hereford Record and Hereford Herd Book
Author: American Hereford Cattle Breeders' Association
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1300
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1300
Book Description
Cardiff Cut
Author: Lloyd Robson
Publisher: Parthian Books
ISBN: 1913640507
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 105
Book Description
"Cardiff Cut" takes a scenic and disenchanted tour of the Welsh capital. Witty, obscene, defiant... an aimlessly anarchic Joycean monologue... steeped in the city of Cardiff...
Publisher: Parthian Books
ISBN: 1913640507
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 105
Book Description
"Cardiff Cut" takes a scenic and disenchanted tour of the Welsh capital. Witty, obscene, defiant... an aimlessly anarchic Joycean monologue... steeped in the city of Cardiff...