On Your Marks: Selected Writings about All Kinds of Sports

By Various and Martin Polley

Book Overview

Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. This edition is edited and introduced by sports historian, Professor Martin Polley.

A sparkling anthology celebrating sport in all its variety; from elite rugby and football to rural games on the village green, from an exclusive golf club to the sheer pleasure of a bicycle ride.

A treat for sports fans, dip into this wide-ranging, entertaining collection of classic writing drawn from journalism, diaries, drama, fiction and more. On Your Marks spans from Elizabethan Shakespeare to twentieth-century George Orwell and features Daniel Defoe on horse racing, Jane Austen on archery, Lewis Carroll on croquet and many more.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1529075815
• ISBN13: 9781529075816
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: MacMillan Collector's Library
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 3.8" x 6.2"