Encyclopedia of World Sport: from Ancient Times to the Present
- List Price: $55.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publish date: 01/01/1999
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"A truly phenomenal work...virtually a complete sporting library."--All Sport & Leisure"Accessible and enjoyable."--GQ"What makes this a truly memorable reference work are the countless inserts, personal letters, and historical anecdotes about the sporting life."--Library Journal"An impressive and heavyweight work, compiled with the help of a vast team of sports scholars and experts from all over the world. It gives fascinatingly detailed coverage of almost 300 sports, which include all the mainstream and traditional activities and some that you will probably never have heard of....All the rules are here, along with a description of how the games evolved and are played."--The Times (London)
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