Author: Ruff WilliamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Guide to the Turf
Author: Ruff WilliamPay Up and Play the Game
Author: Wray VamplewPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521892308
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
This 1988 book presents an analysis of the emergence of mass spectator sport during the years prior to World War I.
Ruff's Guide to the Turf
Author: Sporting Life, ThePublisher:
ISBN: 9780901091840
Category : Horse racing
Languages : en
Pages : 942
Book Description
The Turf
Author: Wray VamplewPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The Bookseller
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1760
Book Description
Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.
Willing's Press Guide
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ISBN:
Category : English newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 946
Book Description
"A guide to the press of the United Kingdom and to the principal publications of Europe, Australia, the Far East, Gulf States, and the U.S.A.
The Story of Your Life
Author: James LambiePublisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1848762917
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 631
Book Description
The intriguing story and turbulent history of a paper Charles Dickens praised for its ‘range of information and profundity of knowledge’, and which Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, simply endorsed with the remark: ‘Of course I read The Sporting Life’. It was the Queen Mother’s love of horseracing that made her such an avid reader of the Life and coverage of that sport forms the core of this book, but there is so much more to fascinate the reader including eyewitness accounts of the first fight for the heavyweight championship of the world and Captain Webb’s heroic Channel swim of 1875. Highlights in the history of cricket, football and rugby are also featured, while chapters on coursing and greyhound racing rank alongside surreal reports on ratting contests and songbird singing competitions. And for 30 years Tommy Wisdom made his motoring reports unique by competing against the best at Brooklands, Le Mans and in many Monte Carlo rallies, while Henry Longhurst’s golfing column was simply the best. The paper’s strident campaigns for racing reforms are also chronicled along with its coverage of major news stories, from Fred Archer’s shocking suicide to its own untimely demise. Its travails in the law courts are documented from its first year, when it was forced to change its title, to its last, when it had to pay libel damages to the training team of Lynda and Jack Ramsden and their jockey, Kieren Fallon. A higher price was paid by its French correspondent who was killed in a duel over an article he had written, while the terrible toll the First World War took on the nation’s sporting heroes is catalogued by the Life’s embedded army correspondent, against a background of political bungling that is being repeated today.
The Man who Lost Himself
Author: Henry De Vere StacpoolePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Older people
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The Black Bridge
Author: Michael TannerPublisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 9781477239100
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
What does it take to kill your fellow man? The horrors of World War One yield the answer for one troubled young man from Littlemore who finds himself at war on two fronts: at home and in the trenches where his enemies number comrades as well as Germans. His pursuit of inner peace leads to the ultimate sacrifice. A terrified teenage boy plunges from a bridge into a river before a baying mob of his peers. Jumping from the Black Bridge is a rite of passage for every Littlemore lad on the cusp of manhood. It is meant to represent a test of courage. But Max Lanham is a self-reliant only-child, unafraid to walk alone, a maverick who regards this as a futile gesture. He is torn: scared to jump but even more scared of the consequences of not doing so. The ordeal marks Max Lanham out as a misfit and a man constantly at war with his conscience. His isolation is replicated in his dysfunctional family presided over by a manipulative mother Intellectual comfort he draws from a former teacher, now a conscientious objector; fellowship he derives from a simple farm-lad who hero-worships him; while physical solace he finds in the arms of the village prostitute. Ultimately, he seeks peace of mind by forgoing his place at Oxford University in favour of volunteering to fight in the trenches with the Ox & Bucks. The horrors of war deepen his anguish. He sees operations botched; men routinely slaughtered. Even first-love cannot halt his slide toward madness. Then a final family row reveals a secret that sends him hurtling toward his destiny. He must brave an ordeal worse than the Black Bridge.
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