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Tinker to Evers to Chance The Chicago Cubs and the Dawn of Modern America
ISBN: PB: 9780226790244, ISBN: HB: 9780226415048, University of Chicago Press, February 2021
340 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones
Their names were chanted, crowed, and cursed. Alone they were a shortstop, a second baseman, and a first baseman. But together they were an unstoppable force. Joe Tinker, Johnny Evers, and Frank Chance came together in rough-and-tumble early twentiet...
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£16,00
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Bicycling through Paradise Historical Rides Around Cincinnati
ISBN: PB: 9781947602755, University of Chicago Press, University of Cincinnati Press, November 2020
350 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones
Bicycling Through Paradise is a collection of twenty historically themed cycling tours broken into 10-mile segments centered around Cincinnati, Ohio. Written by two longtime cyclists – one a professor of history and one an architect – the book is an...
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Alaska Native Games and How to Play Them
ISBN: PB: 9781602234185, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2020
100 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 colour plates
The athletes of the Alaska Native games aren't just returning to their roots. They've never left them. In this beautifully illustrated book, readers learn the history of twenty-five Native games that have been handed down through generations, how eac...
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Hard Driving The 1908 Auto Race From New York to Paris
ISBN: PB: 9781602234024, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, May 2020
250 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 49 halftones, 1 map
In the winter of 1908, six cars left Times Square bound for Paris. They were embarking on a remarkable motor race across the world that would capture everyone's imagination. In this book, Dermot Cole weaves a thrilling account of the improbable journ...
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£18,00
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Guide to Peril Strait and Wrangell Narrows, Alaska
ISBN: PB: 9781602234000, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2020
150 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 6 maps, 5 charts, 10 halftones
Learning how to pilot a ship through Wrangell Narrows and Peril Strait is not an easy matter for a vessel operator new to the area, or even for those with experience. It takes time, patience, and a certain appetite for risk. The older generation of c...
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£24,00
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Higher and Colder A History of Extreme Physiology and Exploration
ISBN: HB: 9780226650883, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones
During the long twentieth century, explorers went in unprecedented numbers to the hottest, coldest, and highest points on the globe. Taking us from the Himalaya to Antarctica and beyond, "Higher and Colder" presents the first history of extreme physi...
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£30,00
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Rumble in the Jungle Muhammad Ali and George Foreman on the Global Stage
ISBN: HB: 9780226059433, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones
The 1974 fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman, staged in the young nation of Zaire and dubbed the Rumble in the Jungle, was arguably the biggest sporting event of the twentieth century. The bout between an ascendant undefeated champ and an o...
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I in Team Sports Fandom and the Reproduction of Identity
ISBN: PB: 9780226470139, ISBN: HB: 9780226469935, University of Chicago Press, June 2017
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 3 tables
There is one sound that will always be loudest in sports. It isn't the squeak of sneakers or the crunch of helmets; it isn't the grunts or even the stadium music. It's the deafening roar of sports fans. For those few among us on the outside, sports f...
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£72,00
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Bittersweet Science Fifteen Writers in the Gym, in the Corner, and at Ringside
ISBN: PB: 9780226346205, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
272 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
Weighing in with a balance of the visceral and the cerebral, boxing has attracted writers for millennia. Yet few of the writers drawn to it have truly known the sport – and most have never been in the ring. Moving beyond the typical sentimentality, r...
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£14,50
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Backcasts A Global History of Fly Fishing and Conservation
ISBN: HB: 9780226366579, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 64 halftones
"Many of us probably would be better fishermen if we did not spend so much time watching and waiting for the world to become perfect" – Norman Maclean Though Maclean writes of an age-old focus of all anglers – the day's catch – he may as well be spe...
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£36,00
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