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This Sporting Life
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Author : David Storey
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2015-08-11
This Sporting Life written by David Storey and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-11 with Fiction categories.
A rugby player finds fame and fortune in a bleak mining town, but he cannot outrun the emptiness he feels inside in Man Booker Prize–winning author David Storey’s seminal first novel On Christmas Eve, Arthur breaks his two front teeth. A teammate on the rugby pitch is too slow with a handoff, and instead of catching the ball, Art catches an opponent’s foot right in the mouth. When he regains consciousness, the match is almost over, but he keeps playing regardless. Where else would he go? His entire life, Art has only cared about sports and nothing grabs his attention quite like the lightning-fast violence of Rugby League. He knows it could kill him, but it also makes him feel alive. In this hard-bitten Yorkshire mining town, the warriors of the rugby pitch are treated like gods. Through the aggressive sport, Art finds money, friends, and countless women. But when his lust for violence begins to fade, will he have the courage to leave the game behind?
This Sporting Life
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Author : Robert Colls
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2020
This Sporting Life written by Robert Colls and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with History categories.
This Sporting Life offers an important view of England's cultural history through its sporting pursuits, carrying the reader to a match or a hunt or a fight, viscerally drawing a portrait of the sounds and smells, and showing that sport has been as important in defining British culture as gender, politics, education, class, and religion.
The Good Sporting Life
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Author : Stephen Liggins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-04
The Good Sporting Life written by Stephen Liggins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04 with categories.
An introduction to the Bible's teaching on sport and a compendium of practical advice for maximising the blessings of sport while avoiding its potential dangers.
This Sporting Life
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Author : William Wright Kelly
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
This Sporting Life written by William Wright Kelly and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Body, Human categories.
History Afield
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Author : Robert C Willging
language : en
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
Release Date : 2012-08-22
History Afield written by Robert C Willging and has been published by Wisconsin Historical Society this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-22 with History categories.
Stories of sportsmen past come to life in History Afield, an account of the many and varied sporting pursuits that are part of the Wisconsin tradition. Author and outdoorsman Robert Willging shares more than two dozen tales of Wisconsin sporting history, highlighting the hunt for waterfowl, upland birds, and deer; trout fishing in wild north Wisconsin rivers; and recreating at early Wisconsin lakeside resorts. Anecdotes of fishing exploits on our plentiful waterways and presidential visits to northern Wisconsin reveal a unique slice of sporting culture, and chapters on live decoys and the American Water Spaniel demonstrate the human-animal bond that has played such a large part in that history. Tales of nature’s fury include a detailed account of the famous Armistice Day storm, as well as the dangers of ice fishing on Lake Superior. These historical musings and perspectives on sporting ethos provide a strong sense of the lifestyle that Willging has preserved for our new century. Featuring first-hand interviews and a variety of historic photos depicting the Wisconsin sporting life, History Afield shows how the intimate relationship between humans and nature shaped this important part of the state’s heritage.
This Sporting Life 1878 1991
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Author : High Museum of Art
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 1992
This Sporting Life 1878 1991 written by High Museum of Art and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Architecture categories.
Dispatches From The Sporting Life
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Author : Mordecai Richler
language : en
Publisher: Lyons Press
Release Date : 2004-05
Dispatches From The Sporting Life written by Mordecai Richler and has been published by Lyons Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-05 with categories.
Witty and perceptive essays by a sports-obsessed, world-renowned novelist.
Brooklyn S Sportsmen S Row
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Author : Lucas G. Rubin
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2012-11-06
Brooklyn S Sportsmen S Row written by Lucas G. Rubin and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-06 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Tales of scandals, social class, and a city block where big names in horse racing—among other prominent people—lived: “Well researched . . . a fascinating read.” —Brooklyn Daily Eagle In an era when horse racing reigned supreme and Brooklyn was at its very center, a remarkable collection of turf legends came to reside along one small stretch of northern Eighth Avenue in the exclusive neighborhood of Park Slope. Here, along Sportsmen’s Row, the lives of the sportsmen and those of their neighbors—men of prominence and distinction in theater, law, industry, and politics—came together in surprising and unexpected ways. Though the public saw a block dominated by the celebrities of the age, behind the closed doors of Sportsmen’s Row a more subtle narrative played itself out: of infidelity, gambling, excess and, regardless of fame, a world strictly ordered and preordained by social class. This history offers a compelling portrait of this colorful corner of Gilded Age Brooklyn. Includes photos
Jacques Henri Lartigue
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Author : Thierry Terret
language : en
Publisher: Actes Sud Editions
Release Date : 2013
Jacques Henri Lartigue written by Thierry Terret and has been published by Actes Sud Editions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Photography categories.
Jacques Henri Lartigue was fascinated by the ascent of sport in the early twentieth century as a fashionable pastime for the middle classes, and was himself a keen sportsman. Lartigue's entirely unposed photographs, presented album-style in this gorgeous, luxurious and delightful volume, capture both the joyous exuberance of amateur sports--racing, skiing, tennis, gymnastics, hang gliding--and the particular character of its popularity in the first half of the twentieth century. Lartigue is an absolute master at conveying the dynamism of the human body at play--the peculiar shapes it can contort into, and the gestures that can express anything from easy nonchalance to fierce focus. These photographs also serve as a historical catalogue of the paraphernalia and smart casual clothing associated with each sport. A Sporting Life is divided into five themed chapters: "The Sportsman," "Taking the Air," "Training," "Women and Children" and "Sport as Spectacle." Here, we witness how sports were transforming social relations, introducing new opportunities for expression, especially across gender lines. In an essay, historian Thierry Terret reveals the complexity of Lartigue's technical approach to photography, and looks at the issues surrounding the rise of sport in its modern incarnation as a leisure pursuit and as commerce. In a preface, novelist Anne-Marie Garat (whose own narratives often feature the themes of photography and family) provides a personal perspective on Lartigue's sports photography, also exploring the role played by sport in the development of photography itself. The book is copublished with Hermès, in celebration of its 2013 sports theme. Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894-1986) was a French photographer and painter, most famous for his photographs of the leisure activities of France's middle and upper classes. An avid photographer from the age of seven, Lartigue gained fame for his photo albums, which provide a comprehensive chronicle of the twentieth century in France and abroad, and for his official portraits.
The Sporting Life
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Author : Charles Porterfield
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-05-14
The Sporting Life written by Charles Porterfield and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-14 with categories.
Enter into the sporting life, the world of prostitutes, pimps, madams, gamblers, bootleggers, and drag queens. From the ritzy clubs, hidden speakeasies, luxurious brothels, and down-on-their-luck dives of old to the seedy massage parlours and back alleys of today, the sporting life has always intersected with the culture of African-American hoodoo, conjure, and rootwork. Now Professor Porterfield takes you into the clandestine milieu of underworld beliefs and secret practices, and shows the impact that the sporting life has on the world of magic and spirituality. With more than 150 practical spells, charms, recipes, and authentic old-style tricks, The Sporting Life pulls back the velvet curtain that has for too long concealed the life, times, and history of the demimonde. Presenting the magic of the prostitutes of the Bible, the working girls of Storyville and Memphis, the high-stakes bettors, the magnetic madams, the persuasive pimps, the cagey corner dope dealers, and members of oppressed lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, and transgender communities of colour ? The Sporting Life is sure to startle your senses and thrill your heart. This exhaustively researched book blows open the hidden world of love, lust, vice, and danger that is the sporting life.