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On Your Marks: Selected writings about all kinds of sports
A sparkling anthology celebrating sport in all its variety; from elite rugby and football to rural games on the village green, from an exclusive golf club to the sheer pleasure of a bicycle ride.
Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, pocket-sized classics with ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition is edited and introduced by sports historian, Professor Martin Polley.
A treat for sports fans, dip into this wide-ranging, entertaining collection of classic writing drawn from journalism, diaries, drama, fiction and more. On Your Marks spans from Elizabethan Shakespeare to twentieth-century George Orwell and features Daniel Defoe on horse racing, Jane Austen on archery, Lewis Carroll on croquet and many more.
Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, pocket-sized classics with ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition is edited and introduced by sports historian, Professor Martin Polley.
A treat for sports fans, dip into this wide-ranging, entertaining collection of classic writing drawn from journalism, diaries, drama, fiction and more. On Your Marks spans from Elizabethan Shakespeare to twentieth-century George Orwell and features Daniel Defoe on horse racing, Jane Austen on archery, Lewis Carroll on croquet and many more.
240 pages, Hardcover
Published October 11, 2022
About the author
Martin Polley
13 booksMartin Polley is a sport historian, a senior Lecturer in Sport at the University of Southampton, the Director of International Centre for Sports History and Culture and a professor of History in De Montfort University, Leicester. He is the author of bestselling sports history textbooks.
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February 23, 2024
This is a gorgeous small primer introducing us to sports-related writing in British literature – although overwhelmingly English – from Shakespeare to Orwell. It’s mainly literary, with some journalism and reportage but dominated by fiction and poetry. A delight to dip into, and perhaps the perfect gift for that sporty type who plays round in literary pasts, or for the back pocket for those of us who that description fits.
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