Gypsy Jem Mace
First Heavyweight Champion of the World
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
11 August 2016
Summary
A few miles from New Orleans, at LaSalle’s Landing - in what is now the city of Kenner - stands a life-size bronze statue of two men in combat. One of them is the legendary Gypsy Jem Mace, the first Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World and the last of the great bare-knuckle fighters. This is the story of Jem Mace’s life. Born in Norfolk in 1931, between his first recorded fight, in October 1855, and his last - at the age of nearly 60 - he became the greatest fighter the world has ever kno…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780233005034 |
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| ISBN-10: | 023300503X |
| Author: | Adrian Besley |
| Publisher: | Headline Publishing Group |
| Imprint: | Headline Welbeck Non-Fiction |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 11 August 2016 |
| Weight: | 180g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 20mm |
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About The Author
Adrian Besley
Acclaimed author Jeremy Poolman is Gypsy Jem Mace’s great-great-grandson. His first four books were novels - Interesting Facts About the State of Arizona, winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, Best First Book; Audacity’s Song; My Kind of America; and Skin - since when he has written a trio of non-fiction books, including Gypsy Jem Mace, A Wounded Thing Must Hide: In Search of Libbie Custer and The Road of Bones: A Journey to the Dark Heart of Russia. When he is not travelling, he now lives in Cornwall, where he is Artist In Residence at Pensans Primary School.
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