Author: John McEvoy
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1458711838
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Why are some of America's best and most respected jockeys suddenly losing big races? And who would kill a ninety-two-year-old bookmaker? ''McEvoy has created a winning protagonist in Chicago turf writer Matt O'Connor, who has an abundance of friends in mostly low places and his finger firmly on the pulse of the national horseracing scene.... [He] is dead-on in his descriptions and accounts of Thoroughbred racing. He also gives us characters we can care about and suspense enough to make the blood race like a stakes-winning sprinter.'' - Booklist starred review ''Horse racing has always attracted a wide range of colorful characters, and McEvoy portrays them all with an obvious affection and a sharp eye, from jockeys, trainers and touts to fans, newsmen and suckers.... charm, racing expertise and a willingness to go the distance that will carry the reader all the way to the finish line.'' - Publishers Weekly Praise for Blind Switch... ''This accomplished first novel set in the world of horse racing is bound to be compared to the novels of Dick Francis....'' - Publishers Weekly starred review
Riders Down
Author: John McEvoy
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1458711838
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Why are some of America's best and most respected jockeys suddenly losing big races? And who would kill a ninety-two-year-old bookmaker? ''McEvoy has created a winning protagonist in Chicago turf writer Matt O'Connor, who has an abundance of friends in mostly low places and his finger firmly on the pulse of the national horseracing scene.... [He] is dead-on in his descriptions and accounts of Thoroughbred racing. He also gives us characters we can care about and suspense enough to make the blood race like a stakes-winning sprinter.'' - Booklist starred review ''Horse racing has always attracted a wide range of colorful characters, and McEvoy portrays them all with an obvious affection and a sharp eye, from jockeys, trainers and touts to fans, newsmen and suckers.... charm, racing expertise and a willingness to go the distance that will carry the reader all the way to the finish line.'' - Publishers Weekly Praise for Blind Switch... ''This accomplished first novel set in the world of horse racing is bound to be compared to the novels of Dick Francis....'' - Publishers Weekly starred review
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1458711838
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Why are some of America's best and most respected jockeys suddenly losing big races? And who would kill a ninety-two-year-old bookmaker? ''McEvoy has created a winning protagonist in Chicago turf writer Matt O'Connor, who has an abundance of friends in mostly low places and his finger firmly on the pulse of the national horseracing scene.... [He] is dead-on in his descriptions and accounts of Thoroughbred racing. He also gives us characters we can care about and suspense enough to make the blood race like a stakes-winning sprinter.'' - Booklist starred review ''Horse racing has always attracted a wide range of colorful characters, and McEvoy portrays them all with an obvious affection and a sharp eye, from jockeys, trainers and touts to fans, newsmen and suckers.... charm, racing expertise and a willingness to go the distance that will carry the reader all the way to the finish line.'' - Publishers Weekly Praise for Blind Switch... ''This accomplished first novel set in the world of horse racing is bound to be compared to the novels of Dick Francis....'' - Publishers Weekly starred review
The Night Riders
Author: Frank Dumont
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Languages : en
Pages : 74
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Languages : en
Pages : 74
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Motorcycle Illustrated
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Category : Motorcycles
Languages : en
Pages : 792
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Category : Motorcycles
Languages : en
Pages : 792
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Lady Long Rider
Author: Bernice Ende
Publisher: Farcountry Press
ISBN: 1560377453
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher: Farcountry Press
ISBN: 1560377453
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Early Riders
Author: Robert Drews
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134340737
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
In this wide-ranging and often controversial book, Robert Drews examines the question of the origins of man's relations with the horse. He questions the belief that on the Eurasian steppes men were riding in battle as early as 4000 BC, and suggests that it was not until around 900 BC that men anywhere - whether in the Near East and the Aegean or on the steppes of Asia - were proficient enough to handle a bow, sword or spear while on horseback. After establishing when, where, and most importantly why good riding began, Drews goes on to show how riding raiders terrorized the civilized world in the seventh century BC, and how central cavalry was to the success of the Median and Persian empires. Drawing on archaeological, iconographic and textual evidence, this is the first book devoted to the question of when horseback riders became important in combat. Comprehensively illustrated, this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in the origins of civilization in Eurasia, and the development of man's military relationship with the horse.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134340737
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
In this wide-ranging and often controversial book, Robert Drews examines the question of the origins of man's relations with the horse. He questions the belief that on the Eurasian steppes men were riding in battle as early as 4000 BC, and suggests that it was not until around 900 BC that men anywhere - whether in the Near East and the Aegean or on the steppes of Asia - were proficient enough to handle a bow, sword or spear while on horseback. After establishing when, where, and most importantly why good riding began, Drews goes on to show how riding raiders terrorized the civilized world in the seventh century BC, and how central cavalry was to the success of the Median and Persian empires. Drawing on archaeological, iconographic and textual evidence, this is the first book devoted to the question of when horseback riders became important in combat. Comprehensively illustrated, this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in the origins of civilization in Eurasia, and the development of man's military relationship with the horse.
The Red Riders
Author: Thomas Nelson Page
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
The Motorcycle Enthusiast in Action
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Category : Motorcycles
Languages : en
Pages : 718
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Category : Motorcycles
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
Riders on the Niño Storms
Author: L. H. May
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1456743260
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
"... it's a novel about Americans in Peru in the sixties, with ephemera from the Summer of Love against a background of Andean sunsets." L.H. May, Riders on the Niño Storms, author's preface
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1456743260
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
"... it's a novel about Americans in Peru in the sixties, with ephemera from the Summer of Love against a background of Andean sunsets." L.H. May, Riders on the Niño Storms, author's preface
Riders Dictionarie, corrected and augmented ... Whereunto is joyned a Dictionarie Etymologicall ... Now newly corrected and much augmented by Francis Holy-Oke
Author: John RIDER (Bishop of Killaloe.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Longarm 244: Longarm and the Devil's Sister
Author: Tabor Evans
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101178922
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
A courtroom jailbreak leaves Longarm in the dust! Longarm couldn't be happier that Devil Dave Devereux is finally on trial for murder, until gun shots ring out in the courtroom—and Devil Dave is nowhere to be found when the smoke clears.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101178922
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
A courtroom jailbreak leaves Longarm in the dust! Longarm couldn't be happier that Devil Dave Devereux is finally on trial for murder, until gun shots ring out in the courtroom—and Devil Dave is nowhere to be found when the smoke clears.