No Pie Priest: A Journey Through The Folk Sports Of Britain Harry Pearson Simon Schuster Ltd Αγγλικά Βιβλία Health Family & Life Style And Fitness

Writer Harry Pearson Takes A Warm And Witty Journey Around Britain In Pursuit Of The Lost Folk Sports That Somehow Still Linger On Glitzy Era Premier League Sky To Find Out How Why They Have Survived Meet Characters Who Keep Them Going When Victorian Public Schoolmasters Oxbridge-Educated Gentlemen Were Taming Football Codifying Cricket Bringing Values Muscular Christianity Boxing Ring Athletics Field Games Dated Back Pagan Clung Isolated Pockets Rural Unmodified By Contemporary Tastes Shunned Media Sport’s Ruling Elites Here Remain Small Secret Worlds Free From Scrutiny Var Controversies Wreathed An Arcane Language Face-Gaters Whack-Ups Potties Gates-Of-Hell Dorset Flop As Much Part British Countryside Natterjack Toad Almost Endangered No Pie Priest! Travels Through Search Nation’s Traditional Seeking Championship Knur Spell (A Viking Forefather Golf) West Yorkshire Moors Watching Irish Road Bowling County Armagh (Once Surprising Interest England Captain Mike Brearley) Popinjay At Kilwinning Abbey Ayrshire Aunt Sally Competitions Oxfordshire Taking World Stoolball (Often Considered Dairymaid’s Form Cricket) Toad-In-The-Hole Sussex Combines Reporting Travelogue History Features Cast Bucolic Eccentrics Many Deeply Impenetrable Regional Accents Σελίδες: 256 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0606 Διαστάσεις: 13X13Cm