Everything to play for

Harkin, James

£14.99

Hop, skip and jump into this wonderfully curious grand tour of the world of sports, brought to you by QI Elves James Harkin and Anna Ptaszynski. From sport’s weirdest rules to its most unlikely heroes, each chapter of ‘Everything to Play For’ is brimming with surprising facts and intriguing stories, including the psychology of football chants, comically large cricket bats, pole-vaulting priests and professional pillow-fighting.

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Publish Date: 12/10/2023

Description

Top Bins! A personal best, a lap record and a hole in one for when rain has stopped play.’ ALAN DAVIES

Hop, skip and jump into this wonderfully curious grand tour of the world of sports, brought to you by QI Elves James Harkin and Anna Ptaszynski.

From sport’s weirdest rules to its most unlikely heroes, via comically large cricket bats, pole-vaulting priests, creative football chants and exploding billiard balls, each chapter of Everything to Play For is brimming with surprising facts and intriguing stories.

Even if you’ve never asked yourself what David Attenborough has to do with yellow tennis balls, why Victorian doctors feared the outbreak of ‘bicycle face’ or what led ancient Egyptian athletes to have their spleens removed, this book will give you the astonishing answers – and plenty more besides.

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Additional information

Weight 540 g
Dimensions 204 × 153 × 28 mm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Hardback

Pages

256

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

796 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K