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An Abounding Joy

An Abounding Joy

Essays on Sport by Ian Mcdonald

by Ian McDonald and Clem Seecharan
Paperback
Publication Date: 18/07/2019

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Ian McDonald (1933-), the eminent poet, thinker and public intellectual, has written more than 1,500 articles over the last four decades.This book comprises 100 of his essays on sport, compiled, edited and vividly annotated by Clem Seecharan, the distinguished Guyanese historian. They cover tennis, squash, and boxing, but it is McDonald's revered sport, cricket, that predominates in this collection. The latter encompasses the history of the game, including its place in the soul of the West Indian people, in addition to its contemporary problems and challenges. There are also beautifully crafted pieces on his 'Uncle Bertie' Harragin (who played against WG Grace in 1906), WG himself, Frank Worrell, Joe Solomon, Clive Lloyd, Viv Richards, Brian Lara, Shiv Chanderpaul and, his greatest hero of them all, the superb Guyana and West Indies batsman, Rohan Kanhai.
ISBN:
9781912662074
9781912662074
Category:
Sports & outdoor recreation
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
18-07-2019
Language:
English
Publisher:
Hansib Publications
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Dimensions (mm):
228x152mm
Ian McDonald

Ian McDonald was born in 1960 in Manchester, England, to an Irish mother and a Scottish father. He moved with his family to Northern Ireland in 1965. He is the author of Luna: New Moon and Luna: Wolf Moon. He has won the Locus Award, the British Science Fiction Association Award, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. He now lives in Belfast.

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