Tim Crothers

Broschiertes Buch

The Queen of Katwe

One Girl's Triumphant Path to Becoming a Chess Champion

Beschreibung

The astonishing true story of Phiona Mutesi, a teenager from the slums of Kampala, Uganda, who, inspired by an unlikely mentor, a war refugee turned missionary, becomes an international chess champion.

Autor

Tim Crothers is a former senior writer at Sports Illustrated. He is the author of The Queen of Katwe: One Girl’s Triumphant Path to Becoming a Chess Champion and The Man Watching, the biography of University of North Carolina women’s soccer coach Anson Dorrance, and coauthor of Hard Work, the autobiography of UNC basketball coach Roy Williams. He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with his wife and two children.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Scribner Book Company
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 317g
• ISBN-13: 9781501127182
• ISBN-10: 1501127187
• Artikelnr.: 43340440