ISBN: 9780982304945 - flying change: a year of racing and family and steeplechasing (11 risultati)

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Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. 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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Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Inscribed by Patrick Smithwick on half title page. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Minor shelf wear. Clean, unmarked pages. *Autographed by author.*. Signed.

hardcover. Condizione: New. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition. Baltimore: Chesapeake Book Company, (2012). First Edition. Large 8vo. xi,351pp. Blue cloth. Fine condition in fine dj. Reaching middle-age the author leaves comfort and security behind to enter the world of steeplechasing. Signed & inscribed by the author on the half-title page (using the entire page). ISBN 9780982304945 ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 351 pages; Signed by Author. …

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.; 360 pages.