Description: Further DetailsTitle: Everything to Play ForCondition: NewFormat: HardbackSubtitle: The QI Book of SportsISBN-10: 0571372538EAN: 9780571372539ISBN: 9780571372539Edition: MainPublisher: Faber & FaberRelease Date: 10/12/2023Description: SHORTLISTED FOR THE CHARLES TYRWHITT SPORTS BOOK AWARDS'Top Bins! A personal best, a lap record and a hole in one for when rain has stopped play.' ALAN DAVIES'The trivia book of the season . . . magnificent.' SPECTATORDid you know that Henry VIII owned the first pair of football boots? Or that David Attenborough is responsible for yellow tennis balls?Everything to Play For is the curious story of us and sport. It's about our mind-blowingly determined attempts to be the fastest, the strongest, the most skilful. In this endlessly entertaining tale of play and belonging, astonishing violence and jaw-dropping cheating, we learn what led ancient Egyptian athletes to have their spleens removed and discover why Michael Palin was disqualified from a conker tournament. Crossing millennia, continents and cultures, Harkin and Ptaszynski - the brainy researchers for BBC's QI and co-hosts of No Such Thing As A Fish -show us sport as we've never seen it before.**Published in paperback as A Load of Old Balls.**For more from the team behind QI's hit TV show, check out the QI FACTS series of books, @qikipedia, their weekly podcast at nosuchthingasafish.com or visit qi.com.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 204mmItem Length: 153mmAuthor: James Harkin, Anna PtaszynskiGenre: Sports & HobbiesTopic: Indoor Games & Puzzle Books, Humour & Joke BooksItem Width: 28mmItem Weight: 540gType: Puzzles & QuizzesRelease Year: 2023 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Everything to Play For
Title: Everything to Play For
Subtitle: The QI Book of Sports
ISBN-10: 0571372538
EAN: 9780571372539
ISBN: 9780571372539
Edition: Main
Release Date: 10/12/2023
Release Year: 2023
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Type: Puzzles & Quizzes
Book Title: Everything to Play for : the Qi Book of Sports
Number of Pages: 400 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Faber & Faber, Incorporated
Publication Year: 2024
Item Height: 1.1 in
Topic: Form / Trivia, Form / Anecdotes & Quotations, General, Topic / Sports
Genre: Sports & Recreation, Humor
Item Weight: 19 Oz
Item Length: 8 in
Author: Anna Ptaszynski, James Harkin
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
