Sports & Recreation

FULLY REVISED AND UPDATED 'The finest Fergie book of them all' - Tom English, BBC Sport When Sir Alex Ferguson retired at the end of the 2013 season he was the most successful football manager Britain had ever seen, having won twice as many trophies...

The Revolt of the Black Athlete hit sport and society like an Ali combination. This Fiftieth Anniversary edition of Harry Edwards's classic of activist scholarship arrives even as a new generation engages with the issues he explored. Edwards's new...

'When a man walks on to a pitch there's always a chance something magic can happen, that's what keeps us coming back...'In A Man Walks On To a Pitch, Harry shares a lifetime's experience of obsessing over football, during which he has seen it all first...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780951943779Author Joanne WrightFormat HardbackImprint Orchard PublishingPublisher Orchard PublishingDimensions(mm) 205mm * 156mm * 23mm

FEATURED IN THE SCOTSMAN'S SPORT BOOKS OF 2020 A collection of lyrical sweet-nothings whispered to late goals, local radio commentators, referees falling over and 47 other reminders of why we love football. Despite its flaws and excesses, modern...

Games People Played is, surprisingly, the first global history of sport. The book shows how sport has been practiced, experienced and made meaningful by players and fans throughout history. It assesses how sports developed and diffused across the globe,...

Master the fascinating game of Go with this expert guidebook.Go is a two-player board game that first originated in ancient China but is also very popular in Japan and Korea. There is significant strategy and philosophy involved in the game, and the...

WINNER OF THE 2014 THWAITES WAINWRIGHT PRIZEIn the past, Hugh Thomson has written acclaimed books about Peru, Mexico and the Indian Himalaya. Now he returns to the most exotic and foreign country of them all - his own. Walking right across England, along...

The autobiography of West Indies fast-bowling legend turned Sky pundit, Michael Holding, author of the award-winning Why We Kneel, How We RiseAs one of the fastest bowlers the world has seen, Michael Holding went by the haunting nickname 'Whispering...

Champions Under Lockdown is the third book in the Red Odyssey series. It tells the story of an extraordinary season from the perspective of the terraces. After their epic 2018/19 season, in 2019/20 Jurgen Klopp would target Liverpool's first league title...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781872405230Author John WombellFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Hallewell PublicationsPublisher Hallewell Publications

It's a tally that beggars belief - 340 goals in a single season. Even more surprising is the fact few people can name the player behind that record-breaking feat. Paul Moulden was a schoolboy phenomenon. As star striker of the renowned Bolton Lads' Club,...

Silver Linings examines an historic and unforgettable period in the history of England's national football team. In his eight years as England boss, Bobby Robson was celebrated, derided, Diego-ed, and everything in between. His team missed one European...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780952357759Author Gillian Rowan-WildeFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Gildersleve Publishing LtdPublisher Gildersleve Publishing Ltd

A bestseller in both the UK and the USA on its first publication, this book was the first fully authorised life of world's greatest living footballer. With exclusive access to Pele, award-winning sports writer Harry Harris charts his meteoric rise from...

SHORTLISTED FOR ADVENTURE TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEARIn the spring of 2015, Mark Beaumont set out from the bustling heart of Cairo on his latest world record attempt - solo, the length of Africa, intending to ride to Cape Town in under 50 days. Seven years...

THE YEAR 2022 MARKS THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE GREATEST VICTORY IN THE HISTORY OF RANGERS FOOTBALL CLUB - WINNING THE EUROPEAN CUP WINNERS' CUP IN BARCELONA.Now, in conversation with a roll call of the legends from that glorious day in 1972, Tom Miller...

Following on from his hugely successful book Sea Kayak, Gordon Brown brings his vast experience and unique style to this latest publication Sea Kayak Safety and Rescue. Each chapter begins with a real-life incident which sets the scene and helps to...

In June 2009, Caspar and Nichola created a plan to sail around the world with their young children. Most people thought they were crazy. But over the past seven years they've embraced every moment of this momentous chapter of their lives. Five years of...

Create Your Own Camping Activities, the follow up to Lonely Planet Kids' Create Your Own Vacation Games, is packed with over 80 ideas for the best camping games, crafts and activities. There are suggestions for fun things to do throughout the entire...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916485853Author Amy AdamsFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint Unity Print and Publishing LtdPublisher Unity Print and Publishing Ltd

Plans included: Plymouth (1:12 500) Mayflower Marina (1:4500) Sutton Harbour and Queen Anne's Battery Marina (1:4500) River Yealm (1:12 500) Continuation of Saint Germans or Lynher River (1:20 000) Continuation of River Tamar (1:20 000)About the...

Ski mountaineering guidebook to the Western Alps including the classic Haute Route, Chamonix to Zermatt, tours in the Ecrins, Vanoise, Haute Maurienne, Gran Paradiso, Mont Blanc, Valais and Urner Alps. The European Alps offer some of the finest and most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985841119Author Glenn WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Wdws PublicationsPublisher Wdws PublicationsWeight(grams) 426g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955034008Author J.G. BurkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Black Belt AcademyPublisher Black Belt AcademyWeight(grams) 148g

A guidebook to 35 graded day walks in Spain's Catalunya - Girona Pyrenees region. Walks are included for all abilities and can be walked between April and November, although some of the lower routes can be walked in winter as well. The routes...

Finding self-acceptance both on and off the mat. In Sanskrit, yoga means to "yoke." To yoke mind and body, movement and breath, light and dark, the good and the bad. This larger idea of "yoke" is what Jessamyn Stanley calls the yoga of the everyday-a...

Renowned within world sport as one of the industry's leading coaches, Mick Clegg is an innovator in his field whose work has yielded the highest rewards in a variety of disciplines. Born in Dukinfield, Greater Manchester, Mick is best known for his...

Marcus Berkmann, author of the cricket classics Rain Men and Zimmer Men, returns to the great game with this irresistible miscellany of cricketing trivia, stories and more fascinating facts than Geoffrey Boycott could shake a stick of rhubarb at. Which...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645171348Author Bathroom Readers' InstituteFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Readerlink Distribution Services, LLCPublisher Readerlink Distribution...

There are few more beautiful places than Scotland's winter mountains. But even when most of the snow has melted, isolated patches can linger well into summer and beyond. In The Vanishing Ice, Iain Cameron chronicles these remarkable and little-seen...

Through an extraordinary selection from the Beken Marine Photography Archive of the work of four generations of famous photographers (the Beken family), this book retraces the fundamental stages of the evolution of the unsurpassable 'Beken style',...

A guidebook to 30 day walks in Carmarthenshire in south Wales, including parts of the Bannau Brycheiniog (Brecon Beacons) National Park and the Carmarthenshire Coast Path. The walks are mostly circular and vary in difficulty, from short, easy walks to...

"Nothing stirs my soul more than watching a 100-year-old classic yacht roll over a wave, sails flared, white water crashing off her bow, crew attentive. Watching these beauties race around a course is truly spectacular." -Michael Kahn. Sailboats features...

Sport Coach Education, Development, and Assessment offers a range of coach assessment ideas and practices from leaders in the coach education and development field. A combination of theory- and practice-focused chapters aims to stimulate thoughts,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982179144Author Kara GoucherFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Gallery BooksPublisher Gallery Books

Covers clubs in the Scottish Professional Football Lge, Scottish Lowland & Highland Leagues. Contains black & white ground photos,travelling information,historical data & disabled info.Also 22/23 statistical data, scores, final tables & cup information...

The Dales Way runs for 79 miles (127 km) from Ilkley in the Yorkshire Dales to Bowness in the Lake District. The route heads north through Wharfedale, crisscrossing the river, and rises over high moorland to pick up River Dee through Dentdale. Briefly it...

Brecon Beacons - the latest edition to the popular British Mountain Map series. It covers 350 square mile of country - the only really detailed map to cover this whole area on one sheet. These maps are a leap forward in technical excellence. Tough,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645763904Author Nicholas GraingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 271Imprint Vinycomb PressPublisher Vinycomb PressWeight(grams) 450gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...