How to Beat the Australians

Richard Beard (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2007
Yellow Jersey Press (Verlag)
978-0-224-07512-1 (ISBN)

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'Feeling the way I do now, it's not a feeling I ever want to have again.' - Andrew Flintoff speaks for a nation. The Ashes, 2006/07: Australia 5 England 0 - the nightmare returns. For twenty years, Australia has produced competitors so gritty they order sandwiches with sand in, and not just at cricket. Fourth in the medals table at the Athens Olympics, Tour de France contenders, Davis Cup champions, and the Socceroos 3-1 winners over England. For Richard Beard, the football was the last straw. So, on the well-established principle that if you want something doing ..., he travelled down to Australia for seven rounds of hand-to-hand sporting combat, to find out just what makes the Australians so good, and how to beat them.

Richard Beard is the author of four critically acclaimed novels, X20, Damascus, The Cartoonist and Dry Bones, and one work of non-fiction, Muddied Oafs. He won an Arts Council of England Award in 1997, and Damascus was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 1999. Muddied Oafs, his journey round all the rugby clubs he has ever played for, was described by Frank Keating as 'the book rugby has been waiting for'.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	5.7.2007
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	133 x 200 mm
Gewicht	180 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Australien / Neuseeland / Ozeanien
ISBN-10	0-224-07512-8 / 0224075128
ISBN-13	978-0-224-07512-1 / 9780224075121
Zustand	Neuware