Sasha Abramsky

Little Wonder

The Fabulous Story of Lottie Dod, the World's First Female Sports Superstar

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A groundbreaking biography of the world's first female sports superstar, the pioneering and uncompromising Lottie Dod.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Akashic Books, Ltd.
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 146mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 480g
• ISBN-13: 9781617758195
• ISBN-10: 1617758191
• Artikelnr.: 56970517

Autorenporträt

SASHA ABRAMSKY is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared over the past twenty-five years in major newspapers and magazines in the United States and United Kingdom. These include the Nation, the Atlantic, the New Yorker online, Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, the New York Times, the Guardian, the Independent, the Observer, and the New Statesman. He has written widely about poverty and inequality; hunger; mass incarceration; the treatment of immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers; along with book reviews, cultural essays, and travel writing. Little Wonder is Abramsky's ninth book. He teaches writing part-time at the University of California, Davis, and lives in Sacramento with his wife and two children.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1: A family Obsession
Chapter 2: Battle of the Sexes
Chapter 3: Scaling the Heights in Switzerland
Chapter 4: The Grand Tour on Wheels
Chapter 5: The Fastest Woman on Earth
Chapter 6: Golfing Triumph and Transatlantic Fame
Chapter 7: Bull's-Eye at the London Olympics
Chapter 8: From Sporting Legend to Wartime Nurse
Chapter 9: Singing Her Way into Old Age
Chapter 10: The Final Days