Fox Tossing, Octopus Wrestling and Other Forgotten Sports

ISBN-13: 9781471148996 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 272 str.

Edward Brooke-Hitching

Opis

Some of the most dangerous and downright bizarre sports in history brought vividly back to life, from Fox Tossing to Ski Ballet

Recenzje

'An entertaining new book... which looks back at the most bizarre sporting activities ever devised by mankind.' Daily Mail

O autorze

Edward Brooke-Hitching is the author of the critically acclaimed and bestselling books The Phantom Atlas (2016), The Golden Atlas (2018), The Sky Atlas (2019), The Madman's Library (2020) and The Devil's Atlas (2021), all of which have been translated into numerous languages; he is also the author of Fox Tossing, Octopus Wrestling and Other Forgotten Sports (2015). He is a writer for the BBC series QI. A fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and an incurable cartophile, he lives surrounded by dusty heaps of old maps and books in Berkshire.