Peter Pan's First XI: The Extraordinary Story of J. M. Barrie's Cricket Team - Couverture rigide

Telfer, Kevin

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0340919450 ISBN 13 : 9780340919453

Editeur : Sceptre, 2010

Synopsis

The creator of Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie, was a hugely enthusiastic cricketer of very little talent. That didn't stop him from leading perhaps the most extraordinary amateur cricket team ever to have taken the field. Some of the twentieth century's most famous writers including A. A. Milne, P. G. Wodehouse, Jerome K. Jerome and Arthur Conan Doyle, regularly turned out for Barrie's team between 1890 and 1913. This very Edwardian vision of village cricket was only brought to an end by the First World War. Those years of golden summers were recounted in Barrie's letters and journals, many revealed here for the first time. Cricket lovers will identify with Barrie's attempts to assemble a team of competent players. In PETER PAN'S FIRST XI, Kevin Telfer weaves together cricket, literature, history, humour and biography to create an entertaining account of this little-known band of cricketing Peter Pans -- and the age in which they lived.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Kevin Telfer is the author of three books including The Remarkable Story of Great Ormond Street Hospital (2008), where he first found out about J. M. Barrie and the Allahakbarries due to Barrie's fascinating connection with the hospital. He has written for the Guardian, the Sunday Times and The Idler.

He was rather more athletic than Barrie as a childhood cricketer but still never managed a score of more than 12 in a competitive match and last played when he was seventeen years old. Nonetheless, he has a lifelong love of listening to cricket on the radio.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Sceptre
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0340919450
• ISBN 13: 9780340919453
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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