Limits of the Known by David Roberts
$27.99 NZD
Category: Literary Sports Writing
David Roberts has spent his career documenting voyages to the most extreme landscapes on earth. In Limits of the Known, he reflects on humanity's--and his own--relationship to exploration and extreme risk. Part memoir and part history, this book tries to make sense of why so many have committed their li ...Show more
Never Ran, Never Will: Boyhood and Football in a Changing American Inner City by Albert Samaha
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Category: Literary Sports Writing
This uplifting story of a boys' football team shines light on the under-appreciated virtues that can bloom in impoverished neighborhoods, even as nearby communities exclude them from economic progress.Never Ran, Never Will tells the story of the working-class, mostly black neighborhood of Brownsville, B ...Show more
The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created by Jane Leavy
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Category: Literary Sports Writing
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From Jane Leavy, the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Boy and Sandy Koufax, comes the definitive biography of Babe Ruth--the man Roger Angell dubbed "the model for modern celebrity."A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Boston Globe - Publishers Weekly - Ki ...Show more
The Circuit by Rowan Ricardo Phillips
$42.99 NZD
Category: Literary Sports Writing
An energetic, lyrical, genre-defying account of the 2017 tennis season. In The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey, the award-winning poet--and Paris Review sports columnist--Rowan Ricardo Phillips chronicles 2017 as seen through the unique prism of its pivotal, revelatory, and historic tennis season. The annual ...Show more
The Heritage: The Rise, Fall, and Resurgence of the Black Political Athlete by Howard Bryant
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Category: Literary Sports Writing
Following in the footsteps of Robeson, Ali, Robinson and others, today's Black athletes re-engage with social issues and the meaning of American patriotism It used to be that politics and sports were as separate from one another as church and state. The ballfield was an escape from the world's worst pro ...Show more
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