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Avtobiografije & biografije, Potopis
€6,00In 1957 Nicholas Mosley and Hugo Charteris, two novelists, made a journey by car from Dakar to Lagos across West Africa. Their route took them partly through the progressive and nationalist areas of the coast, but more especially to the primitive tribes of the interior; so that they seemed “to be moving up and down the country not only in space, but also in centuries, as if we were travellers on a time machine'”.
They saw the colourful world of French Senegal, and visited the Diamond Mines in Sierra Leone where hundreds of illicit diggers have rioted and died; they were present at a festival of the Toma tribe when the young girls of the tribe came out of the Sacred Forest after their years of initiation and attended the Independence Day celebrations of Ghana–the crisis-point of African Nationalism.
The story of this journey takes the reader through one of the most kaleidoscopic and fast-moving areas in the world and brings to life scenes and places at present in the forefront of the news; and also those of the mysterious African past which is disappearing so rapidly.
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Brian Moore, or “Pitbull” as he came to be known during nearly a decade at the heart of the England rugby team’s pack, established himself as one of the game’s original hard men at a time when rugby was still an amateur sport. Since his retirement, he has earned a reputation as an equally uncompromising commentator, never afraid to tell it as he sees it and lash out at the money men and professionals that have made rugby into such a different beast. Yet, for all his bullishness on and off the pitch, there also appears a more unconventional, complicated side to the man. A solicitor by trade, Moore’s love of fine wine, career experience as a manicurist, and preference for reading Shakespeare in the dressing room before games, mark him out as anything but the stereotypical rugby player and in Beware of the Dog Moore lays open with astounding frankness the shocking events, both personal and professional, that have gone towards shaping him over the years. Presenting an unparalleled insight into the mind of one of British rugby’s greatest players and characters, Beware of the Dog is a uniquely engaging and upfront sporting memoir.
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Prikazovanje 1–25 od 370 rezultatov