Sports & Recreation

Deer stalking is widely regarded as the fastest growing sector within shooting sports in Britain today. Those who stalk deer for sport recognise and appreciate the exciting challenge that comes from hunting a wild and wary quarry, moreover, they enjoy...

"Still the best book on improving at climbing ... worth every penny and more." -- Dave MacLeod, online climbing coach blog In full color with 52 practical training exercises designed to advance technique Detailed anatomical illustrations explain climbing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781782811923Author Julian SeamanFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint G2 Entertainment LtdPublisher G2 Entertainment Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846742385Author Len BanisterFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Countryside BooksPublisher Countryside Books

'They're all scared. Everybody's afraid' - Eddy Merckx 'Nothing compares to the Ventoux' - Lance Armstrong 'Heart-stirring and jaw-dropping in equal measure' - Tim Moore The French call Ventoux 'the killer mountain' and in 1967 it claimed its most famous...

Crowood Sports Guides provide sound, practical advice that will help make you a better sportsperson whether you are learning the basic skills, discovering more advanced techniques or reviewing the fundamentals of your game. Featured in this book are:...

'Is there anything in sport to compare with the sustained excitement of a cricket match, especially a Test match, in which the advantage continually fluctuates one way and then the other, and when the match enters its last few minutes, all four results...

Harold Raeburn was one of Scotland's greatest ever mountaineers, with a legacy of prized lines scattered far and wide across the Highlands. In feats of extraordinary vitality, he made winter ascents of Tower Ridge, North-East Buttress and Crowberry...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993218064Author Liz HurleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 109Imprint Mudlark's PressPublisher Mudlark's Press

What were Darlington FC's most memorable matches of the last 50 years? Paul Hodgson is better placed than most to weigh in on the matter. He's been a regular presence at games for the past half-century. What's more, as a disabled fan attending games in a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452279728Author George LeonardFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint New American LibraryPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 161gDimensions(mm)...

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2023** A panoramic revisionist portrait of the nineteenth-century invention that is transforming the twenty-first-century world.'The real feat of this book is that it takes us on a ride-across the...

This book leads the modern traveller along some of the key medieval walking routes of England, Scotland and Wales, taking in world-famous sites such as Canterbury and Lindisfarne, and out-of-the-way places along paths not so widely travelled. Each route...

Shortlisted for the Richard Jefferies Award 2022Growing up in Shetland with its myriad lochs and burns, Malachy Tallack and his brother would roam the island in search of trout, and in so doing discovered a sense of freedom, of wonder - and an abiding...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558708440Author Jeff GreenwaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Betterway BooksPublisher F&W Publications IncWeight(grams) 186gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Unless you have unbeatable boatspeed, tactics are vital to winning sailboat races. Multi-champion, Nick Craig, shows you how to develop a strategy and what tactics to adopt on every leg and at every mark of the course. His first book, Helming to Win, was...

This handy, pocket-sized guidebook features 15 of the best walks in Leicestershire & Rutland. All walks start and/or finish at a top-rated local pub. HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE: The hills & woodland around Staunton Harold; The scenic delights of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912060962Author Carol BurkinshawFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Bradwell BooksPublisher Bradwell Books

'The maddest 12 months of my life. The journey starts with an oddball race up an American mountain and ends with me checking myself out of hospital with a broken back. Again ...'As Guy's Latvian grandfather frequently reminded him, 'When you dead, you...

'A book as rich and complex as the extraordinary worlds of Turkish football it explores' David Goldblatt'Captures the Turkish game with love, in all its beauty and darkness' Simon Kuper Ask a British football fan what they know about Turkish football,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995748569Author David JonesPage Count 128Imprint Northern HeritagePublisher Northern Heritage ServicesWeight(grams) 150gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 150mm *...

With a foreword by Eddy Merckx The world of professional cycling is fraught with fierce competition, fervent dedication and unerring ambition, and only a handful of competitors reach iconic status. Among them is Sir...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914066160Author Greville WatermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Hawksmoor PublishingPublisher Hawksmoor Publishing

The Next Big Thing tells the stories of 15 footballers who were tipped for the top as youngsters yet were unable to fulfil their potential. With each player exclusively interviewed and insight provided by former team-mates, coaches and expert...

Andy Murray: tennis player, sports icon, Olympian. Get the inside track on one of history's most spectacular athletes! A Life Story: this thrilling series throws readers directly into the lives of modern...

The period from 1993 has been one of the most successful in the history of Glamorgan CCC, with both league and cup victories. This is the story of this wonderful period, told in the players' own words, and supported by superb photographs by Huw John. It...

Research Methods for Sports Studies is a comprehensive, engaging and practical textbook that provides a grounding in qualitative and quantitative research for students studying programmes related to sport and physical activity. Leading the reader...

The Story of Harley-Davidson is a compact and dynamic exploration of the legendary motorcycle manufacturer. There are few silhouettes on the world's roads as instantly recognisable as that of the Harley-Davidson. The iconic motorcycle brand is synonymous...

An expert mountaineer cracks Everest's most intriguing mystery - did Mallory and Irvine reach the summit before they perished on its slopes? On the 6th June 1924, mountaineers George Mallory and Sandy Irvine perished in their attempt to reach...

Miguel Indurain is Spain's greatest cyclist of all time and one of the best Tour racers in history. He is the only bike rider to have won five successive Tours de France, as well as holding the title for the youngest ever race leader in the Tour of Spain...

The Wild Life is John Lewis-Stempel's account of twelve months eating only food shot, caught or foraged from the fields, hedges, and brooks of his forty-acre farm. Nothing from a shop and nothing raised from agriculture. Could it even be done?We witness...

THE RUNNING AWARDS - BEST CHRISTMAS BOOK 'an inspiring collection of stories about runners who have run through unimaginable adversity to find perspective, resolution and ultimately peace, within themselves and with the universe.' - Dean Karnazes ...

It is a little known fact that of the thirty seven clubs that have played in the English Premier League since its inception of the 92/93 season, twelve can trace their origin directly to a church. However, many of these famous football clubs know little...

The Central Fells of Lakeland include the ever-popular Langdale Pikes, the supremely lovely foothills overlooking Borrowdale and the 'silent forests and gaunt crags' above the dark waters of Thirlmere. The Pictorial Guides by A. Wainwright,...

Johnny Herbert was one of the most brilliant natural talents to emerge in motor racing, but for all his bravery and prowess, he's lucky to be alive. After becoming British Junior Karting Champion (losing part of a finger in the process), then the Formula...

This is a comprehensive companion to the long coastline which ranges from Spain and the edge of the Pyrenees to the Alpes Maritimes and Italy. It covers the flat country of Languedoc-Roussillon, the coast of the Golfe du Lion, the Rhone delta and the...

This new edition guidebook to the Cumbria Way has route updates, some new photos and much-improved mapping at 1:60,000. The Way runs for 73 miles northward across the Lake District, starting from Ulverston, passing through unspoiled dales with...

Hardly a week goes by without Dickie Bird visiting a county or Test match arena where he can keep up to date with all that is happening in the cricket world, while at the same time taking the opportunity to reflect, in the company of old friends and...

Gary Witheford is one of the country's leading 'horse whisperers' and the man who famously broke a zebra to prove that all flight animals react in a similar way to human handling. If Horses Could Talk tells Gary's story through the prism of the horses...

In rugby, there are the Flash Harrys and the Glory Boys: the fly-halves who run, kick and dazzle; the scrum-halves who nip and dart; the wingers who step and glide. These are the players who get the crowd on their feet, who set stadiums abuzz. But they...