Richard Tomlinson

Amazing Grace

The Man Who was W.G.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A magisterial new biography reveals the real W.G. behind the record-breaking cricketer who was also the most recognisable public figure in Victorian Britain.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 123mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9780349139845
• ISBN-10: 0349139849
• Artikelnr.: 44547410

Autorenporträt

A historian and former playing member of MCC, Richard Tomlinson received his Ph.D. from Cambridge University before becoming an award-winning international journalist with the Independent, Fortuneand other publications in Europe, North America and Asia. In Amazing Grace: The Man who was W.G., Tomlinson combines his passion for cricket and historian's eye to connect Grace's astounding feats on the playing field with an imperial landscape populated by a Dickensian cast of characters who crossed his majestic path, from failed Australian gold rush speculators and an American Civil War hero to the syphilitic secretary of MCC.