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Amazing Grace: The Man Who was W.G.
Richard Tomlinson
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Description for Amazing Grace: The Man Who was W.G.
Paperback. A magisterial new biography reveals the real W.G. behind the record-breaking cricketer who was also the most recognisable public figure in Victorian Britain. Num Pages: 480 pages, 16pp colour and b/w. BIC Classification: BGS; WSJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 197 x 33. Weight in Grams: 408.
On a sunny afternoon in May 1868, nineteen-year-old Gilbert Grace stood in a Wiltshire field, wondering why he was playing cricket against the Great Western Railway Club. A batting genius, 'W. G.' should have been starring at Lord's in the grand opening match of the season. But MCC did not want to elect this humble son of a provincial doctor. W. G's career was faltering before it had barely begun. Grace finally forced his way into MCC and over the next three decades, millions came to watch him - not just at Lord's, but across the British ... Read more
On a sunny afternoon in May 1868, nineteen-year-old Gilbert Grace stood in a Wiltshire field, wondering why he was playing cricket against the Great Western Railway Club. A batting genius, 'W. G.' should have been starring at Lord's in the grand opening match of the season. But MCC did not want to elect this humble son of a provincial doctor. W. G's career was faltering before it had barely begun. Grace finally forced his way into MCC and over the next three decades, millions came to watch him - not just at Lord's, but across the British ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Abacus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
407g
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349139845
SKU
V9780349139845
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99-50
About Richard Tomlinson
A historian and former playing member of MCC, Richard Tomlinson received his Ph.D. from Cambridge University before becoming an award-winning international journalist with the Independent, Fortuneand other publications in Europe, North America and Asia. In Amazing Grace: The Man who was W.G., Tomlinson combines his passion for cricket and historian's eye to connect Grace's astounding feats on the playing field ... Read more
Reviews for Amazing Grace: The Man Who was W.G.
The cricketer W. G. Grace is instantly recognisable as an icon of the Victorian age, if only by virtue of his impossibly bushy beard, but as Richard Tomlinson emphasises in this terrifically readable biography, he was, in his time, at the cutting edge of modernity. Grace dominated the game to an extent matched later only by Australian Donald Bradman and ... Read more