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Harry Pearson - Racing Pigs and Giant Marrows: Travels Around the North Country Fairs - 9780349109466 - KRF0037427
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Racing Pigs and Giant Marrows: Travels Around the North Country Fairs

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Description for Racing Pigs and Giant Marrows: Travels Around the North Country Fairs Paperback. * In Harry's second book he introduces us to the novelties which abound in our North Country Fairs, from fell Running to Rabbit Fancying. Num Pages: 240 pages, Section: 8, B&W. BIC Classification: 1DBK; WH; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 142 x 16. Weight in Grams: 290. Used paperback, in good condition. Some shelf wear.

Following his acclaimed book about football in the north-east,THE FAR CORNER, Harry Pearson vowed that his next project would not involve hanging around outdoors on days so cold that itinerant dogs had to be detached from lamp-posts by firemen. It would be about the summer: specifically, about a summer of shows and fairs in the north of England.

Encompassing such diverse talents as fell-running, tupperware-boxing and rabbit fancying (literally), and containing many more jokes about goats than is legal in the Isle of Man, Racing Pigs and Giant Marrows is without doubt the only book in existence to explain ... Read more

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Product Details

Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349109466
SKU
KRF0037427
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1

About Harry Pearson
Harry Pearson is a journalist and writer who contributes regularly to the GUARDIAN, WHEN SATURDAY COMES and a number of those men's magazines with women in bras on the cover. His first book, THE FAR CORNER, was runner up for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year.

Reviews for Racing Pigs and Giant Marrows: Travels Around the North Country Fairs
Pearson is funnier than Bill Bryson . . . a prize onion of a tome that'll leave you streaming at the eyes with merriment
INDEPENDENT
Just as much of a hoot [as THE FAR CORNER]. The title explains his remit, but can't do justice to his one-liners and digressions
MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS
It would have been ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Racing Pigs and Giant Marrows: Travels Around the North Country Fairs


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