Jon Hotten: 2 books
The Meaning of Cricket
or How to Waste Your Life on an Inconsequential Sport
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Cricket is a strange game. It is a team sport that is almost entirely dependent on individual performance. Its combination of time, opportunity and the constant threat of disaster can drive its participants to despair. To survive a single delivery propelled at almost 100 miles an hour takes the body...
Muscle
A Writer's Trip Through a Sport with No Boundaries
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
Bodybuilding is the wildest, wierdest sport in the world, but it's more than just a sport. It's a whole way of life for the supermen who scale its Olympian heights. Muscle is a journey through a land of giants, men for whom life is given meaning by the pursuit of the perfect pec and who worship at...