Ed Smith

Luck

What It Means and Why It Matters
Sprecher: Mace, Colin

• MP3-CD

Produktbeschreibung

For aspiring cricketer Ed Smith, luck was for other people. Like his childhood hero, Geoff Boycott, the tough, flinty Yorkshire man, the young Ed knew that the successful cricketer made his own luck by an application of will power, elimination of error, and the relentless pursuit of excellence. But when a freak accident prematurely ended Ed Smith's international cricketing career, it changed everything--and prompted him to look anew at his own life through the prism of luck. Tracing the history of the concepts of luck and fortune, destiny and fate, from the ancient Greeks to the present day--in religion, in banking, in politics--Ed Smith argues that the question of luck versus skill is as pertinent today as it ever has been.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brilliance Audio
• Gesamtlaufzeit: 360 Min.
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781531841973
• Artikelnr.: 45061281

Autorenporträt

Ed Smith is an author and journalist, and a former international cricketer who has represented England, Cambridge University, Kent and Middlesex. Ed Smith's previous books include Playing Hard Ball, On and Off the Field - the Wisden Book of the Year and shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year and The Cricket Society Book of the Year Award - and the critically acclaimed, What Sport Tells Us About Life. After retiring from cricket Ed Smith became a leader writer for The Times. He is now a features writer for The Times, has a column in GQ and writes regularly for the Spectator. In 2010 he wrote and presented a TV documentary for BBC1 and now appears regularly on the Today Programme. Ed Smith lives in west London. @edsmithwriter