Author: Edward L. Bowen
Publisher: Eclipse Press
ISBN: 158150117X
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
With Volume 2 of Legacies of the Turf II Edward Bowen focuses on the men whose horses have dominated racing in the last half of the 20th century and into the 21st. He has woven together a rich tapestry of horse racing lore.
Iberia
Author: James A. Michener
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
ISBN: 0812969804
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 978
Book Description
“Massive, beautiful . . . unquestionably some of the best writing on Spain [and] the best that Mr. Michener has ever done on any subject.”—The Wall Street Journal Spain is an immemorial land like no other, one that James A. Michener, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author and celebrated citizen of the world, came to love as his own. Iberia is Michener’s enduring nonfiction tribute to his cherished second home. In the fresh and vivid prose that is his trademark, he not only reveals the celebrated history of bullfighters and warrior kings, painters and processions, cathedrals and olive orchards, he also shares the intimate, often hidden country he came to know, where the congeniality of living souls is thrust against the dark weight of history. Wild, contradictory, passionately beautiful, this is Spain as experienced by a master writer.
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
ISBN: 0812969804
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 978
Book Description
“Massive, beautiful . . . unquestionably some of the best writing on Spain [and] the best that Mr. Michener has ever done on any subject.”—The Wall Street Journal Spain is an immemorial land like no other, one that James A. Michener, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author and celebrated citizen of the world, came to love as his own. Iberia is Michener’s enduring nonfiction tribute to his cherished second home. In the fresh and vivid prose that is his trademark, he not only reveals the celebrated history of bullfighters and warrior kings, painters and processions, cathedrals and olive orchards, he also shares the intimate, often hidden country he came to know, where the congeniality of living souls is thrust against the dark weight of history. Wild, contradictory, passionately beautiful, this is Spain as experienced by a master writer.
Guide to the Turf
Author: Ruff William
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Legacies of the Turf
Author: Edward L. Bowen
Publisher: Eclipse Press
ISBN: 158150117X
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
With Volume 2 of Legacies of the Turf II Edward Bowen focuses on the men whose horses have dominated racing in the last half of the 20th century and into the 21st. He has woven together a rich tapestry of horse racing lore.
Publisher: Eclipse Press
ISBN: 158150117X
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
With Volume 2 of Legacies of the Turf II Edward Bowen focuses on the men whose horses have dominated racing in the last half of the 20th century and into the 21st. He has woven together a rich tapestry of horse racing lore.
1997 Chacahoula
Author:
Publisher: ULM Chacahoula
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Publisher: ULM Chacahoula
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The Best Little Baseball Town in the World
Author: Gaylon H. White
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538141167
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The Crowley Millers were the talk of minor league baseball in the 1950s, with crowds totaling nearly 10 times Crowley’s population and earning Crowley the nickname of “The Best Little Baseball Town in the World.” The Best Little Baseball Town in the World: The Crowley Millers and Minor League Baseball in the 1950s tells the fun, quirky story of Crowley, Louisiana, in the fifties, a story that reads more like fiction than nonfiction. The Crowley Millers’ biggest star was Conklyn Meriwether, a slugger who became infamous after he retired when he killed his in-laws with an axe. Their former manager turned out to be a con man, dying in jail while awaiting trial on embezzlement charges. The 1951 team was torn to pieces after their young centerfielder was struck and killed by lightning during a game. But aside from the tragedy and turmoil, the Crowley Millers also played some great baseball and were the springboard to stardom for George Brunet and Dan Pfister, two Crowley pitchers who made it to the majors. Interviews with players from the team bring to light never-before-heard stories and inside perspectives on minor league baseball in the fifties, including insight into the social and racial climate of the era, and the inability of baseball in the fifties to help players deal with off-the-field problems. Written by respected minor-league baseball historian Gaylon H. White, The Best Little Baseball Town in the World is a fascinating tale for baseball fans and historians alike.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538141167
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The Crowley Millers were the talk of minor league baseball in the 1950s, with crowds totaling nearly 10 times Crowley’s population and earning Crowley the nickname of “The Best Little Baseball Town in the World.” The Best Little Baseball Town in the World: The Crowley Millers and Minor League Baseball in the 1950s tells the fun, quirky story of Crowley, Louisiana, in the fifties, a story that reads more like fiction than nonfiction. The Crowley Millers’ biggest star was Conklyn Meriwether, a slugger who became infamous after he retired when he killed his in-laws with an axe. Their former manager turned out to be a con man, dying in jail while awaiting trial on embezzlement charges. The 1951 team was torn to pieces after their young centerfielder was struck and killed by lightning during a game. But aside from the tragedy and turmoil, the Crowley Millers also played some great baseball and were the springboard to stardom for George Brunet and Dan Pfister, two Crowley pitchers who made it to the majors. Interviews with players from the team bring to light never-before-heard stories and inside perspectives on minor league baseball in the fifties, including insight into the social and racial climate of the era, and the inability of baseball in the fifties to help players deal with off-the-field problems. Written by respected minor-league baseball historian Gaylon H. White, The Best Little Baseball Town in the World is a fascinating tale for baseball fans and historians alike.
Chronicle of the Horse
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1722
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1722
Book Description
Garrett and the English Muse
Author: Lia Noêmia Rodrigues Correia Raitt
Publisher: Tamesis
ISBN: 9780729301459
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Publisher: Tamesis
ISBN: 9780729301459
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
The Eclectic Review
Author: Samuel Greatheed
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
Tait's Edinburgh Magazine
Author: William Tait
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
Supplement to the London Catalogue of Books Published in Great Britain
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description