Flying Change: A Year of Racing and Family and Steeplechasing - Rilegato

Smithwick, Patrick

 
9780982304945: Flying Change: A Year of Racing and Family and Steeplechasing
Rilegato
ISBN 10: 0982304943 ISBN 13: 9780982304945
Casa editrice: Chesapeake Book Co, 2012

Sinossi

Inspired by the Henry Taylor poem of the same name, Flying Change is the true story of a man changing strides and leaving the comforts and security of middle-age life to reenter the hazardous and highly competitive world of steeplechasing. After a yourthful career begun under the tutelage of his father, legendary steeplechase jockey A.P. Paddy Smithwick, he gave up riding to become a newspaper editor, a Chesapeake Bay waterman, a teacher of English and literature, and a father. But the one-time jockey could not leave the sport he so loved. At forty-six, he pushed himself back into shape for competitive racing and set about trying to find a horse to ride in the most challenging of timer races, the Maryland Hunt Cup.<>From the rolling hills of Maryland horse country, Smithwick issues a movingly written call to those of us trapped in increasingly sedentary, digital lives to get up and go outdoors and let the senses play, to feel a cold rain on your shoulders and sit in front of a warm fire, to smell hay and grass and live in the beauty of spring dawns and brilliant autumn sunsets.

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Editore
Chesapeake Book Co
Data di pubblicazione
2012
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0982304943
ISBN 13 
9780982304945
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
351
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Persona responsabile
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