Author: Benjamin Arthur HeywoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Memoir of Captain Prescot William Stephens
Author: Benjamin Arthur HeywoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Man's Departure and the Invisible World: a Collection of Opinions and Facts
Author: ManPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Life and letters of Adolphe Monod, by one of his daughters (S.M.).
Author: Sarah MonodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
The Spectator
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1240
Book Description
A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.
Evita Burned Down Our Pavilion
Author: Timothy AbrahamPublisher: Constable
ISBN: 1472132505
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 487
Book Description
'A highly entertaining read, deftly melding social history with sporting memoir and travelogue' Mail on Sunday A history of Latin America through cricket Cricket was the first sport played in almost every country of the Americas - earlier than football, rugby or baseball. In 1877, when England and Australia played the inaugural Test match at the MCG, Uruguay and Argentina were already ten years into their derby played across the River Plate. The visionary cricket historian Rowland Bowen said that, during the highpoint of cricket in South America between the two World Wars, the continent could have provided the next Test nation. In Buenos Aires, where British engineers, merchants and meatpackers flocked to make their fortune, the standard of cricket was high: towering figures like Lord Hawke and Plum Warner took star-studded teams of Test cricketers to South America, only to be beaten by Argentina. A combined Argentine, Brazilian and Chilean team took on the first-class counties in England in 1932. The notion of Brazilians and Mexicans playing T20 at the Maracana or the Azteca today is not as far-fetched as it sounds. But Evita Burned Down Our Pavilion is also a social history of grit, industry and nation-building in the New World. West Indian fruit workers battled yellow fever and brutal management to carve out cricket fields next to the railway lines in Costa Rica. Cricket was the favoured sport of Chile's Nitrate King. Emperors in Brazil and Mexico used the game to curry favour with Europe. The notorious Pablo Escobar even had a shadowy connection to the game. The fate of cricket in South America was symbolised by Eva Peron ordering the burning down of the Buenos Aires Cricket Club pavilion when the club refused to hand over their premises to her welfare scheme. Cricket journalists Timothy Abraham and James Coyne take us on a journey to discover this largely untold story of cricket's fate in the world's most colourful continent. Fascinating and surprising, Evita Burned Down Our Pavilion is a valuable addition to cricketing and social history.
A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accounts to the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century
Author: Samuel Austin AllibonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
The Literary churchman
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Army and Navy Gazette
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1006
Book Description
Life and Work
Author: Church of ScotlandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
A Critical Dictionary of English Literature, and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accounts to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century
Author: Samuel Austin AllibonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 844
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