The Wrestling
$31.70
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
31 October 2007
Summary
Grappling with Giants: The Lost World of British Wrestling
This is a book about Kendo Nagasaki, Mick McManus, Les Kellett, Klondyke Kate and Dr Death - men and women who used to fight each other every night for pride and money.
Margaret Thatcher once wrote adoringly to Big Daddy, and Frank Sinatra told Giant Haystacks that British wrestlers were the best entertainers in the world. The Duke of Edinburgh attended the live shows, expressing a preference for Johnny Kwango, who s…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780571236763 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0571236766 |
| Author: | Simon Garfield |
| Publisher: | Faber & Faber |
| Imprint: | Faber & Faber |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 31 October 2007 |
| Weight: | 210g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 129mm x 16mm |
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About The Author
Simon Garfield
Simon Garfield was born in 1960. He is the author of Expensive Habits: The Dark Side of the Industry (1986), The End of Innocence: Britain in the Time of AIDS (1994), which was awarded the Somerset Maugham Prize, The Wrestling (1996), The Nation’s Favourite: The True Adventures of Radio 1 (1998), the best-selling Mauve (2000), described by the Daily Telegraph as ‘a remarkable book about science which also happens to be a miniature work of art’, and the acclaimed The Last Journey of William Huskisson, as well as three recent works of history: Our Hidden Lives, We are at War and Private Battles.
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