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Being a Man
Robert Twigger
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Description for Being a Man
Paperback. Further adventures in extreme (and not so extreme) sports, from the bestselling author of ANGRY WHITE PYJAMAS. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: WH; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 204.
Further adventures in extreme (and not so extreme) sports, from the bestselling author of ANGRY WHITE PYJAMAS.
Having learnt Aikido with the Tokyo riot police (ANGRY WHITE PYJAMAS) and hunted for the world's longest snake in the jungles of the Far East (BIG SNAKE), Robert Twigger now turns his attention to other traditionally male pursuits and pastimes (some of which are fairly close to home, some of which are more extreme), and looks at the questions these raise about masculinity and the role of man in modern society.
BEING A MAN features Twigger participating in, and writing ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780753813782
SKU
V9780753813782
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50
About Robert Twigger
ROBERT TWIGGER has won the Newdigate Prize for poetry, the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award and the Somerset Maugham Award. His twelve books have been translated into over twenty languages and cover both fiction and non-fiction, memoir and travel. He spent a year training with the Tokyo riot police, crossed Canada in a homemade birchbark canoe and ... Read more
Reviews for Being a Man
He is certainly very good on the allure of some male-dominated subcultures
Guardian
If Twigger really is lamenting a passing age of masculinity, he does so in quixotic style in this amusing memoir
The Times
Twigger is acute and disarming, and his book on manliness has the refreshing virtue of declining to see women as the ... Read more
Guardian
If Twigger really is lamenting a passing age of masculinity, he does so in quixotic style in this amusing memoir
The Times
Twigger is acute and disarming, and his book on manliness has the refreshing virtue of declining to see women as the ... Read more