Richard Askwith

Running Free

A Runner's Journey Back to Nature

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Produktbeschreibung

Part diary of a year running through the Northamptonshire countryside, part exploration of why we love to run without limits, this book is an account of running in a forgotten, rural way, observing wildlife and celebrating the joys of nature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK / Yellow Jersey Press
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 194977
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 126mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 219g
• ISBN-13: 9780224091978
• ISBN-10: 0224091972
• Artikelnr.: 41478647

Autorenporträt

Richard Askwith has been a journalist for over 40 years. He has written six previous books, including his modern classic on fell running, Feet in the Clouds, which won the Best New Writer category at the British Sports Book Awards and was shortlisted for the William Hill and Boardman Tasker prizes, and he is now one of the UK's most celebrated writers on running. Running Free was shortlisted for the Thwaites-Wainwright Prize, and his evocative biography of Emil Zátopek, Today We Die A Little, was shortlisted in the Cross Sports Book Awards. His most recent book, Unbreakable: the Countess, the Nazis and the World's Most Dangerous Horse Race, won Biography of the Year at the Telegraph Sports Book Awards in 2020.

Rezensionen

A joyous, eloquent and lyrical account of one man's lifelong love affair with running... Running Free is simply the prod you need to make you step off the pavement and into the wild Martin Love Guardian