Connie : the marvellous life of Learie Constantine
Pearson, Harry, 1961-2018
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Born in rural Trinidad in 1901, Learie Constantine was the most dynamic all-round cricketer of his age (1928-1939) when he played Test cricket for the West Indies and club cricket for Nelson. Few who saw Constantine in action would ever forget the experience. As well as the cricketing genius that led to Constantine being described as 'the most original cricketer of his time', 'Connie' illuminates the world that he grew up in, a place where the memories of slavery were still fresh and where a peculiar, almost obsessive, devotion to 'Englishness' created a society that was often more British than Britain itself.
Main title:
Connie : the marvellous life of Learie Constantine / Harry Pearson.
Author:
Pearson, Harry, 1961-, author
Imprint:
London : Abacus, 2018.
Collation:
356 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: London: Little, Brown, 2017.Includes bibliographical references and index.
Awards:
Cricket Society/MCC Book of the Year
ISBN:
9780349140391 (pbk)
Dewey class:
796.358092
Language:
English
BRN:
2668692
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