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  • Published: 1 September 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409078104
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 960
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Sport

Almost Everything You Ever Wanted to Know



'Tim Harris' book is awesome in its scope and detail. It claims, too modestly, to contain 'almost everything you ever wanted to know'. Almost?.... Anyone with a love of and interest in sport should keep this book within arms reach at all times' - Adrian Chiles

Sport: Almost Everything You Ever Wanted to Know tells the history of sport. All sport. Ever. From ancient times to the 21st century.

In eight themed parts, Tim Harris describes the triumphs and breakthroughs - as well as the cheating and skulduggery - that have created the modern world of sport. Dip into it, or read it cover to cover - there's a 'Oh - now I get it' moment on every page.

Sport: it's unique, funny, amazingly comprehensive and packed with extraordinary anecdotes to turn any reader into a sporting expert.

  • Published: 1 September 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409078104
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 960
Categories:

About the author

Tim Harris

Author Tim Harris is a former advertising copywriter and creative director who became increasingly obsessed by sporting history after a pub argument about why football shirts tend to be striped and rugby shirts hooped. He is the author of Sport: Almost Everything You Ever Wanted to Know.

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Praise for Sport

Harris's book is a magnificent achievement. The scale of his research is breathtaking. His constant sprightliness is exemplary. This is a book that the discerning sports fan must read

Herald

If you ever wanted to know why boxing rings are square, why golf courses have 18 holes, why football is a game of two halves or why wickets have three stumps, this is the book for you

Sunday Express

Read this... from the history of stadia or the trivia behind sporting rules or why golf balls have dimples, this well-written book will help you take on any pub bore

The Times

Staggeringly informative...succeeds in providing a fanatically comprehensive overview

Chris Maume, Independent, Christmas books special

Subtitles often mislead but this book really does explain almost everything you ever wanted to know about sport... A phenomenal acheivement. Can anyone know more about sport than Tim Harris?

Sunday Telegraph

You look up one thing and find yourself still reading an hour later... Fabulous

Daily Telegraph