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A Fine Place to Daydream: Racehorses, Romance and the Irish
de Bill Barich
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper price clipped.
- ISBN 10
- 0007191804
- ISBN 13
- 9780007191802
- Librería
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Peasedown St. John, Somerset, United Kingdom
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Sobre este artículo
London: CollinsWillow, 2005. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper price clipped.. First edition (first printing). Hardback in dust wrapper (blue boards with silver titling to the spine) Physically 8¾” x 5¾” (0.9 kg); 297pp; Index; Includes: Colour photographs, on individual leaves; ISBN: 0-0071-9180-4 || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #199128|| Condition:
Sinopsis
Twenty-five years after Laughing in the Hills, his racetrack classic, Bill Barich gives us another--about how he fell in love and found a new life in Dublin, where he was soon caught up in the Irish obsession with horses and luck.At venues grand and lowly, Ireland's steeplechase season hits its stride in October and reaches a crescendo at England's Cheltenham Festival in March, when the Irish take on the Brits for bragging rights before a crowd of 50,000. To prepare himself for the fierce rivalry, Barich traveled his adopted country and met the leading trainers and jockeys; such champion jumpers as Florida Pearl and the quirky Moscow Flyer; the beleaguered bookies who work rain or shine; and a host of passionate, like-minded fans--from Father Sean Breen, the "Racing Priest," to T. P. Reilly, whose peculiar betting system turns on a horse's looks.Witty and philosophical, vividly written, A Fine Place to Daydream is a paean to the real Ireland, a moving account of a surprise romance, and the thrilling record of a hugely exciting season at the track.From the Hardcover edition.
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- Librería
- BookLovers of Bath
(GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 199128
- Título
- A Fine Place to Daydream: Racehorses, Romance and the Irish
- Autor
- Bill Barich
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Hardback in Dust Wrapper.
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper price clipped.
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 0007191804
- ISBN 13
- 9780007191802
- Editorial
- London: CollinsWillow
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 2005
- Palabras clave
- irish horse races, irish horse racing, horse racing ireland, national hunt, best mate, gold cup races, irish horse trainers, irish jockeys, irish horses, cheltenham festival, jessica harrington, michael hourigan, paul carberry, barry geraghty, florida pea
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BookLovers of Bath
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Peasedown St. John, Somerset
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BookLovers of Bath is set in the pastoral idyll of Peasedown St. John in Somerset (God's Own Country) in the south west of England. My wife and I owned the village Post Office until the modern world caught up with us in 2014. At that point I converted the premises to a small book shop, Fact or Fable, with a stock of around 4,000 titles in stock. I've been selling books worldwide since 1997 and rather hope to get the hang of it shortly…
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