Batting on the Bosphorus by Angus Bell

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Batting on the Bosphorus by Angus Bell

Following a chance encounter with a psychic, Angus Bell sets off on an 8,000-mile Skoda-powered road trip across Eastern Europe in search of a cricket match. It's a gloriously batty adventure which brings Bell face-to-face with fingerless fielders in the Czech Republic, Serbian MI6 agents, and the realisation that England's most eccentric game is being played with passion in the strangest corners of the continent.
Very funnyDave Gorman meets Andrew Flintoff in clothes borrowed from Billy Connolly. * * The Times * *
Weird and wonderful . . . one of the maddest, most enterprising cricket tours of all time * * Guardian * *
It deserves to be as big a hit as the blow Bell dealt a cricket ball on the bridge over the Bosphorus, propelling it from Europe into Asia. * * Daily Telegraph * *
Angus Bell is a 27-year-old, whisky-swilling Scotsman with a first class degree in English, Flying Saucers and Space Studies. He has visited 40 countries, and has written for the South African Sunday Times, Inside Sport in Australia, the US Student Traveller, Cricinfo in India and The Wisden Cricketer in the UK. He now plays cricket in Montreal, Canada, where he lives with his girlfriend Candy and pet rabbit Usagi. For more articles and photos from his travels and misadventures, visit www.angusjjbell.com.
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ISBN 13 9781847672902
ISBN 10 1847672906
Title Batting on the Bosphorus
Author Angus Bell
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Canongate Books
Year published 2008-06-26
Number of pages 320
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