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Snow Stopped Play: The Mysterious World of the Cricket Ground in Winter
Graham Coster
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Description for Snow Stopped Play: The Mysterious World of the Cricket Ground in Winter
Hardcover. Num Pages: 112 pages, 50 photographs. BIC Classification: WSJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
Cricket is a summer game, intended to be played on green fields under blue skies and warm sun. But, for the first time, a book explores the mesmerising beauty of cricket grounds in winter, carpeted with snow, through remarkable colour photographs depicting grounds from Lord's to the smallest village pitch in Lancashire, and internationally from New Zealand to the Indian Himalayas. For this aspect alone, Snow Stopped Play will be seized upon as the perfect gift for the cricket fan even by those utterly uninterested in the sport. But Snow Stopped Play is also a fascinatingly eccentric and charming disquisition, ... Read more
Cricket is a summer game, intended to be played on green fields under blue skies and warm sun. But, for the first time, a book explores the mesmerising beauty of cricket grounds in winter, carpeted with snow, through remarkable colour photographs depicting grounds from Lord's to the smallest village pitch in Lancashire, and internationally from New Zealand to the Indian Himalayas. For this aspect alone, Snow Stopped Play will be seized upon as the perfect gift for the cricket fan even by those utterly uninterested in the sport. But Snow Stopped Play is also a fascinatingly eccentric and charming disquisition, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Safe Haven Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
394g
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780993291104
SKU
V9780993291104
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1
About Graham Coster
Graham Coster was formerly Publisher at Aurum Press, where he published successful cricket books like Britain's Lost Cricket Grounds. He now runs his own imprint, Safe Haven Books. He is the author of, among other books, Corsairville: The Lost Domain of the Flying Boat (Penguin: no. 11 Sunday Times non-fiction bestseller). He lives in London.
Reviews for Snow Stopped Play: The Mysterious World of the Cricket Ground in Winter
'A delightful new book' - Daily Telegraph. 'A charming little book' - Daily Mail. 'A lovely book - Gideon Haigh. 'Beautiful' - All-Out Cricket magazine. 'A small polished pearl' - Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2016