British Sporting Champions
Title | British Sporting Champions PDF eBook |
Author | Colin Edwards |
Publisher | Austin Macauley Publishers |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2023-11-10 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 139846497X |
You do not leave school one day and win an Olympic gold medal the next. This book is about 50 sporting champions and how they got started. It contains a biography of each followed by their career records. It shows in detail their achievements from school, youth, under 20, under 30, to seminar level, from county, area, national and international honours. It is a multi-sport book that should appeal to multi-sport lovers.
British Sport - a Bibliography to 2000
Title | British Sport - a Bibliography to 2000 PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Cox |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 186 |
Release | 2013-12-16 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 1135287775 |
Volume three of a bibliography documenting all that has been written in the English language on the history of sport and physical education in Britain. It lists all secondary source material including reference works, in a classified order to meet the needs of the sports historian.
Best of British
Title | Best of British PDF eBook |
Author | Jon Henderson |
Publisher | Random House |
Pages | 194 |
Release | 2011-10-31 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 1448113415 |
Best of British is a celebration of the nation's greatest 100 sporting heroes, from Henry VIII to Red Rum, Roy of the Rovers to Torvill and Dean. Jon Henderson has combed through the annals of our glorious and not so glorious past to bring us the geniuses and the eccentrics, the national treasures and the villains who together have shaped our present. Trueman and W. G., Best and Edwards, racing drivers, jockeys, rowers - just what does it take to make a sporting superhero? Hendo's 100 reveals all. Opinionated and provocative, his witty character studies - accompanied by stylish illustrations - capture the essence of his subjects' greatness, re-evaluating the famous and rescuing the forgotten. But when there's a cast of thousands to choose from, and hundreds of years of history to explore, who will make the cut for the most heroic of the heroic? Find out, in Best of British.
British Sport
Title | British Sport PDF eBook |
Author | Richard William Cox |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN | 9780714652504 |
Volume three of a bibliography documenting all that has been written in the English language on the history of sport and physical education in Britain. It lists all secondary source material including reference works, in a classified order to meet the needs of the sports historian.
Guinness World Records Wacky Sporting Champions
Title | Guinness World Records Wacky Sporting Champions PDF eBook |
Author | Guinness World Records |
Publisher | Hachette Digital, Inc. |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2012-07-02 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 1904994970 |
In celebration of this year's sporting summer, Guinness World Records presents Wacky Sporting Champions an eBook exclusive honoring those unique sporting stars who have taken record-breaking to new and outrageous extremes! Featuring record-breakers from all over the world, Wacky Sporting Champions presents the truly alternative side to sporting achievement. Do you want to know how far you can throw a washing machine? Or if the pole-vault record can be attempted on a unicycle? Or what the fastest egg-and-spoon race is? Then Guinness World Records Wacky Sporting Champions is the eBook for you! Word Count: 27,000
British Sport: Local histories
Title | British Sport: Local histories PDF eBook |
Author | Richard William Cox |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN | 9780714652511 |
Volume three of a bibliography documenting all that has been written in the English language on the history of sport and physical education in Britain. It lists all secondary source material including reference works, in a classified order to meet the needs of the sports historian.
The Book of British Sporting Heroes
Title | The Book of British Sporting Heroes PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | National Portrait Gallery |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Athletes |
ISBN | 9781855142497 |
Published to accompany a major exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, Sporting Heroes charts the popular image of the British sporting hero in works of art dating from the 18th century to the present day. Contemporary heroes and heroines, including Frank Bruno and Lennox Lewis, are brought together with their earlier counterparts such as the 19th-century pugilist Tom Cribb; with - among many others - cricketers from W.G. Grace to Ian Botham; footballers from Sir Stanley Matthews to Bobby Charlton and Gary Lineker; and athletes from Roger Bannister to Linford Christie, Sally Gunnell and Fatima Whitbread. Illustrated throughout with paintings, drawings, sculpture, prints, photographs and multimedia works, the book also includes many images from private collections. It is both a celebration of the role of sport in popular culture and a fascinating history of how that role developed.