Test of Time: Travels in Search of a Cricketing Legend

Lazenby, John

ISBN 10: 0719566517 / ISBN 13: 9780719566516

Editore: John Murray Publishers Ltd, London, United Kingdom, 2005

Riguardo questo articolo

Fine in dustjacket.; 8vo.

Codice articolo 152583na

Dati bibliografici

• Titolo: Test of Time: Travels in Search of a Cricketing Legend
• Editore: John Murray Publishers Ltd, London, United Kingdom
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0719566517
• ISBN 13: 9780719566516
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Edizione: First Edition.
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Sports

Descrizione articolo

Riassunto

John Lazenby's interest in cricket began with a glimpse of his grandfather's old leather cricket bag stored among the rafters. His curiosity piqued, one day he decided to climb up and explore its contents. The faded blazer, heavy ball and linseed-scented bats exerted a subtle influence on him. This re-emerged decades later when he discovered a box of letters written by his grandfather, the England cricketer J. R. Mason, while on a boat to Australia for the 1897-8 Ashes tour. Inspired by these extraordinary letters, John Lazenby retraces the journey. His tour becomes a cricketing pilgrimage and a voyage of discovery as he passes through Australian cities and remote towns his grandfather visited more than a hundred years ago. During his travels he uncovers a wealth of memorabilia and anecdotes, and his wide-reaching narrative encompasses not only Mason and his team-mates, but also a wider insight into late Victorian mores.

Recensione

Test of Time will be gold dust to cricket lovers, but it can reach a far wider audience (David Reynolds, author of Swan River)

A celebration of cricket, a unique personal history and an evocative portrait of a bygone era. (History Today)

All in all, a thoroughly enjoyable read and highly recommended. (334NotOut.com)

He conveys the strange, but palpable excitement of research - he drops in on a close-season Lord's, beautifully evoked as a great ship in dry dock (Times Literary Supplement)

'A delightful and unusual book' (Sydney Morning Herald)

'A cracking story' (The Wisden Cricketer)

'Fascinating' (Andrew Baker, Daily Telegraph)

'Partly travelogue...and partly a lovingly detailed exhumation of cricket in JM Mason's day. The sense of period is excellent' - Alex Clark (Observer)

'Part travelogue, part personal history, all good.' (GQ)