Boxing, football, horse-racing, cricket: each grew from different social roots and so enable the dextrous Horspool to construct the framework for his ideas. He's an historian, an editor at t... read more
Combines King's own single-handed crossing of the Atlantic in a 28-foot yacht with tales of others' experiences. By the author of Ahab's Rolling Sea: A Natural History of Moby-Dick.
Kurlansky is a serial obsessionist and always intriguing. Here he betakes himself to the river bank and the slippery struggle between fish and fisherman. (The fish tends to win.)