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The great romantic : cricket and the golden age of Neville Cardus / Duncan Hamilton.

The great romantic : cricket and the golden age of Nevi...

The great romantic : cricket and the golden age of Neville Cardus / Duncan Hamilton.

https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaMl7Zkwd

The great romantic : cricket and the golden age of Neville Cardus / Duncan Hamilton.

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Full title

The great romantic : cricket and the golden age of Neville Cardus / Duncan Hamilton.

Publisher

London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2019.

Call Numbers

H 2021/0358

Record Identifier

74VKaMl7Zkwd

MMS ID

991024352519502626

Language

English

Formats

Physical Description

Physical content

xxix, 370 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.

Content type

text

still image

Media type

unmediated

Carrier type

volume

Publication information

Publisher

London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2019.

Place of Publication

England

Date Published

2019.

More information

Scope and Contents

Summary

In The Great Romantic, award-winning author Duncan Hamilton demonstrates how Cardus changed sports journalism for ever. While popularising cricket - while appealing, in Cardus' words to people who 'didn't know a leg-break from the pavilion cat at Lord's'- he became a star in his own right with exquisite phrase-making, disdain for statistics and a p...

Alternative Titles

Full title

The great romantic : cricket and the golden age of Neville Cardus / Duncan Hamilton.

Authors, Artists and Contributors
Notes

General note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Mitchell Library copy [H 2021/0358]: Jacket filed.

Contextual Information

Date Copyright

©2019.

Identifiers

Primary Identifiers

Call Numbers

H 2021/0358

Record Identifier

74VKaMl7Zkwd

Permalink

https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaMl7Zkwd

Other Identifiers

ISBN

9781473661844 trade paperback

9781473661837 hardback

DDC

070.449796092

MMS ID

991024352519502626

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