Neville Cardus

Cardus on Cricket (eBook, ePUB)

A selection from the cricket writings of Sir Neville Cardus

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Neville Cardus was a literary writer whose subject happened to be cricket, and here is a representative selection of the best of Cardus's writing on the sport. Included are the imaginative reconstruction of the 1882 England and Australia test match to Cardus's descriptions of village cricket, accounts of the great players that Cardus watched play (from Donald Bradman and Harold Larwood to Wally Hammond) to examples of his 'Shastbury' writings.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, D ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Profile
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780285641013
• Artikelnr.: 38203749

Autorenporträt

Neville Cardus was best known for his writing on cricket and music for 'The Guardian'. He became the Guardian's cricket correspondent in 1919, John Atlott described Cardus's cricket writing as: "Before him, cricket was reported ... with him it was for the first time appreciated, felt, and imaginatively described". He was awarded a knighthood in 1967, was president of Lancashire County Cricket Club 1971-72 and died in 1975. Sir Rupert Hart-Davis was an English publisher and man-of-letters.