Sports & Recreation

An engaging portrait of Hampstead Heath - a place rich not just in natural wonders but in history and monuments, emotions and memories, people and places. 'I enjoyed every inch of the way, from Parliament Hill to the Pergola... A late-life little...

Shortlisted for the 2023 Illustrated Sports Book of the Year The ideal gift for football fans Pairing epic sports photography with articles from The Times and The Sunday Times archive, this volume brings...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984771691Author Colin HatcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Tyrant IndustriesPublisher Tyrant IndustriesWeight(grams) 381g

When Boulder Britain first appeared in 2012 there was nothing else like it; eight years on, there still isn't.The UK's most ambitious guidebook set out to showcase and guide users through the ripe wealth of bouldering all across Britain. From Cornwall to...

Sutherland and Caithness are the most northerly parts of mainland Britain. Northwest Sutherland is a stunning landscape of perfect sandy beaches and sweeping moorland studded with glittering lochans, overlooked by some of Scotland's most remarkable...

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 SPORTS BOOK AWARDS CYCLING BOOK OF THE YEAR*The gripping and revealing autobiography of one of Britain's most successful international cyclists of the modern era'Getting in a break was my one chance of winning. The hard part was...

Guidebook to the Via Francigena pilgrim route from Lausanne to Lucca. Starting at Lake Geneva (Lac Leman), the 725km route crosses the Alps at historic Great Saint Bernard Pass, descends the Po Valley, then climbs to cross the Cisa Pass into Tuscany...

A New Formation is an inventive and highly original analysis of the contributions that Black British footballers have made to Black British culture.Calum Jacobs and his co-contributors - including authors Musa Okwonga and Aniefiok Ekpoudom and sports...

Your success as a fitness professional depends on your ability to reliably deliver results to clients. In Secrets of Successful Program Design: A How-To Guide for Busy Fitness Professionals, noted fitness and program design expert Alwyn Cosgrove and his...

This new third edition is a detailed, practical and colourful guide to a popular 90-mile long distance walk across the glorious high country of the Yorkshire Dales. The route starts from Saltaire in West Yorkshire and crosses some of the finest and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949531701Author Nikki HartFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Hot MethodsPublisher Hot MethodsWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 7mm

Brittany's coastline has 3,000 km of sea frontage - a lifetime's worth of walking along the tops of spectacular and seemingly endless cliffs; around remote rocky headlands and peninsulas jutting out into the Atlantic; and across innumerable white sand...

Rangers in the 1980s chronicles the fortunes of the club during one of the most turbulent, transitional decades in their history. The story is told by the players of the era, who recount their routes to Ibrox, memories of their time with the club, and...

Hard Shoulder, M62 Eastbound, June 1982... Britain is on the verge of taking the Falkland Islands back from the Argentine invaders, Margaret Thatcher is three years into her tenure at 10 Downing Street and for the first time since the 1930s, three...

The ice mountains of the Karakoram are among the world's greatest natural treasures. At 8611 metres (28,251 ft), K2 is the second tallest mountain on Earth. There are three other mountains in the range that top 8000 metres (26,247 ft) - Gasherbrum I,...

'A man who had such a huge impact on my career and so many other young players at West Ham United. I highly recommend this fantastic read.' FRANK LAMPARD JR'This man passed on the West Ham DNA to the best generation of academy graduates to come through...

Writer Harry Pearson takes a warm and witty journey around Britain in pursuit of the lost folk sports that somehow still linger on in the glitzy era of the Premier League and Sky Sports to find out how and why they have survived and to meet the...

Embrace adventures both big and small and pursue your wild ideas with this "profoundly inspiring and laugh-out-loud funny" (Jaimal Yogis, author of The Fear Project) guidebook from seasoned adventurer and podcaster Shelby Stanger.Will to Wild is an...

Peter Jefferson presented The Shipping Forecast for over 40 years, and his familiar voice continued to be heard reading quotations on BBC Radio 4's Quote... Unquote. This book is both an affectionate memoir and a history of the science and BBC...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906663865Author Andy JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Logaston PressPublisher Fircone Books Ltd

Skateboarding is both a sport and a way of life. Creative, physical, graphic, urban and controversial, it is full of contradictions - a billion-dollar global industry which still retains its vibrant, counter-cultural heart. Skateboarding and the...

Everest - the highest mountain in the world and the ultimate climbing challenge. In 2006, 11 people died attempting to reach the summit, the most fatalities since 1996. But unlike 1996, 2006 saw no surprise blizzard, only the constant dangers posed by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493059911Author Buck TiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Falcon GuidesPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 235mm *...

This attractive and cleverly structured guide gives walkers ten of the finest walks to the best tea shops in the Pembrokeshire National Park in a popular pocketable format. With clear information, an overview and introduction for each walk, expertly...

'Passionate and moving and provides further evidence of the universality of football' Jonathan Wilson, FourFourTwoThe definitive story of the Middle East's unstoppable rise to football superpower, and the road to the Qatar World CupWhen James Montague...

Deer stalking entails much more than walking the countryside with a rifle; there is a great deal to be considered prior to lacing boots and donning a green fleece. It is often said that the real work starts after the trigger has been squeezed. This...

In this book you will discover the truth-that Homo passiens is the missing link in human evolution. That Homo sapiens is a recently arrived imposter in the evolution of the genus Homo-a charlatan, a fraud, a villain, a quack! That all the academic stuff...

A unique and groundbreaking analysis of how to succeed in equestrian sport, this book unpacks the winning habits of successful equestrians to form a toolkit for readers to develop their own winning habits. Applying psychological understanding in peak...

A guidebook to 30 walks in Austria's Salzkammergut, a region of lakes and mountains near Salzburg. With the majority of routes graded easy to moderate, there are plenty of options to suit less experienced walkers and families, and most can be accessed by...

This Collectors Edition Illustrated Book provides an insight into the most successful period for one of the most famous football clubs in the world. Liverpool Football Club is the team that dominated English and European Football throughout the 1980's. ...

The ultimate guide for fans and players of this rapidly growing sport!Lacrosse For Dummies is the ultimate guide for fans and players of this rapidly growing sport alike. The book offers everything the beginning player needs to know, from the necessary...

A guide for sports fans on how to watch and appreciate the game of hockeyMore and more fans are watching the NHL each week, but many of them don't know exactly what they should be watching. How does an offense create shooting lanes for its best sniper?...

Lights, camera ... kidnap! 'Dreams of stardom; sibling rivalry & a gripping ending, Sister to a Star has it all & I gobbled up the entire book' BONKERS ABOUT BOOKS Evie is forever crossing swords with her twin...

Beautiful Bridesmaids Dressed in Oranje: The Unfulfilled Glory of Dutch Football is the story of a dazzling football dream. Built on the club successes of Ajax and Feyenoord, it's a utopian ideal that blazed with a bright but ephemeral Oranje flame,...

THE GRIPPING, TERRIFYING STORY OF A BRUTAL STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL ON THE UPPER SLOPES OF THE HIMALAYAN K2, THE WORLD'S MOST HOSTILE TERRAIN. 'Unputdownable. A portrait of extreme courage, folly and loss, leavened by a small dose of survival' Financial...

*****Shortlisted for International Autobiography of the Year in the Telegraph Sports Book Awards 2021'This account is often poetic and sometimes haunting.' - FourFourTwoTriple European Footballer of the Year. Once World Footballer of the Year. European...

New York Times bestselling author! Here is the story of how Jim Ross, an Oklahoman farm kid with a vivid imagination and seemingly unattainable dreams, became "The Voice of Wrestling" to record TV audiences and millions of fans around the world. There...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901347432Author Tim ButcherFormat PaperbackImprint League Publications LtdPublisher League Publications Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783967041286Author GestaltenFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint gestaltenPublisher Die Gestalten VerlagWeight(grams) 1792gDimensions(mm) 305mm * 246mm *...

'A powerful and moving book - it's quite a battle he has faced' Nick Robinson, BBC Radio 4 Today Programme'It really is an interesting read' Dan Walker, BBC Breakfast*INCLUDES A FOREWORD BY SIR ALEX FERGUSON*__________'I'm not sure whether life prepared...