 Author Name: Allen, Neil
Title: Taking the Plunge
Binding: Soft Cover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: London Newman Neame Take Home Books Ltd 1965
Illustrator: Barker, Colin
Seller ID: 000058
16pp - One of the very collectable "Take Home Books" series from the 1950s and '60s. 1st ed. "When did man first swim? When he emerged as homo sapiens? We do no know, but there must have been individual attempts to swim from the very earliest times - if only because accident and disaster must sometimes have forced men into the experiment..." The history of water sports. Allen was a sports reporter for a national newspaper when he wrote this and several other sports-related THBs including ones on Boxing and on the Olympic Games. During his long career he has reported 14 Summer and Winter Olympics from Melbourne 1956 to Atlanta 1996 for The Times, London Evening Standard and, finally, the New York Times. He currently writes for Boxing Monthly and other publications.
TAKE HOME BOOKS, UK, SWIMMING, SPORTS, LEISURE, WATER, Neil Allen
Price =
8.50 GBP |
