Gypsy Jem Mace Being the True History of the Last Bare-knuckle Heavyweight Champion of the World
Afbeeldingen
Sla de afbeeldingen over
Artikel vergelijken
Auteur:
Jeremy Poolman
- Engels
- Hardcover
- 9780233002255
- 04 augustus 2008
- 232 pagina's
Samenvatting
A few miles from New Orleans stands a life-size bronze statue of two men in combat. One of them is the legendary Gypsy Jem Mace, the first Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World and the last of the great bare-knuckle fighters. This is his story.Between his first fight, in October 1855, and his last - at the age of nearly sixty - Jem Mace became the greatest fighter the world has ever known. The son of a Hungarian gypsy and a Norfolk cabinet-maker, he took the sport from the brutal bloody backstreets and inn courtyards to a world stage. He was a giant of the ring: his very first title fight, for the Heavyweight Championship of England, lasted 43 rounds - half of which he fought with a broken arm.But he was also much more; within the span of one life he seemed to live a dozen lives. In his youth he scratched a living playing the fiddle on a filthy coal steamer, while at his career's height he was sought after and celebrated by rich and poor alike. He was an acquaintance of Charles Dickens, and became a friend of Wyatt Earp - famous survivor of the gunfight at the OK Corral - who even refereed one of his bouts. He owned and ran a bar and restaurant in New York so swanky that even today the current owners talk about that great Englishman as if he had only just left the building. In Australia he fought an exhibition match in a silver mine and, on leaving, was presented by the miners with a silver brick inscribed This is a brick and you are another .And in 1870 in New Orleans he fought for and won the Heavyweight Championship of the World - a fight that was the first championship fight ever to be fought in America and is remembered to this day as the greatest of sporting spectacles ever to be played out in either the north or the south.Not simply about boxing, Gypsy Jem Mace is about the rise - and its cost - of a great man from nothing. It's the story, too, of an age of rapid change - in which a man as revered as the great Gypsy Jem could collapse and die alone and be buried without ceremony in an unmarked grave. It's a story that will resonate with anyone who has ever sought to do something special.
Productspecificaties
Wij vonden geen specificaties voor jouw zoekopdracht '{SEARCH}'.
Inhoud
- Taal
- en
- Bindwijze
- Hardcover
- Oorspronkelijke releasedatum
- 04 augustus 2008
- Aantal pagina's
- 232
- Illustraties
- Nee
Betrokkenen
- Hoofdauteur
- Jeremy Poolman
- Hoofduitgeverij
- Andre Deutsch
Overige kenmerken
- Editie
- illustrated edition
- Extra groot lettertype
- Nee
- Product breedte
- 152 mm
- Product hoogte
- 32 mm
- Product lengte
- 241 mm
- Studieboek
- Nee
- Verpakking breedte
- 153 mm
- Verpakking hoogte
- 32 mm
- Verpakking lengte
- 234 mm
- Verpakkingsgewicht
- 612 g
EAN
- EAN
- 9780233002255
Je vindt dit artikel in
- Categorieën
- Boek, ebook of luisterboek?
- Boek
- Taal
- Engels
- Studieboek of algemeen
- Algemene boeken
- Beschikbaarheid
- Leverbaar
Kies gewenste uitvoering
Bindwijze
: Hardcover
Prijsinformatie en bestellen
De prijs van dit product is 29 euro en 15 cent. Dit is een tweedehands product.
Alleen tweedehands
Als nieuw
1 - 2 weken
Verkoop door
Bogamo 11 - Boeken outlet
- Bestellen en betalen via bol
- Prijs inclusief verzendkosten, verstuurd door Bogamo 11 - Boeken outlet
- 30 dagen bedenktijd en gratis retourneren
Shop dit artikel
Rapporteer dit artikel
Je wilt melding doen van illegale inhoud over dit artikel:
- Ik wil melding doen als klant
- Ik wil melding doen als autoriteit of trusted flagger
- Ik wil melding doen als partner
- Ik wil melding doen als merkhouder
Geen klant, autoriteit, trusted flagger, merkhouder of partner? Gebruik dan onderstaande link om melding te doen.