Everything to Play For: The QI Book of Sports
Publisher,Faber & Faber
Publication Date,
Format, Hardcover
Weight,
No. of Pages, 400
Shelf: General Books / Sports / Hobbies / Puzzles / Mind Games
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Top Bins! A personal best, a lap record and a hole in one for when rain has stopped play.' ALAN DAVIES
Hop, skip and jump into this wonderfully curious grand tour of the world of sports, brought to you by QI Elves James Harkin and Anna Ptaszynski.
From sport's weirdest rules to its most unlikely heroes, via comically large cricket bats, pole-vaulting priests, creative football chants and exploding billiard balls, each chapter of Everything to Play For is brimming with surprising facts and intriguing stories.
Even if you've never asked yourself what David Attenborough has to do with yellow tennis balls, why Victorian doctors feared the outbreak of 'bicycle face' or what led ancient Egyptian athletes to have their spleens removed, this book will give you the astonishing answers - and plenty more besides.
About the Author
Anna Ptaszynski is a senior researcher, writer and script-editor for the BBC's QI, and one-fourth of the award-winning podcast No Such Thing As A Fish. She has contributed to 11 books with the QI Elves and toured sell-out shows across the world, from the London Palladium to the Sydney Opera House. She is a long-suffering fan of Charlton Athletic
- Dimensions : 15.29 x 2.79 x 20.4 cm
