This is Your Everest by Tom English

This is Your Everest by Tom English

This is Your Everestdelves to the heart of the most famous Lions tour of the modern age. Featuring brand-new interviews with both the Lions and Springboks players and management, as well as featuring thoughts on the tour from modern-day greats who were inspired by the 97 tour including Jonny Wilkinson, Brian ODriscoll, Sam Warburton and more.

'Magnificent'

-- Owen Slot * The Times *

'The 1997 British & Irish Lions expedition to South Africa was among the greatest of modern toursThis Is Your Everest, full of evocative memories and riveting detail, soars high above the average rugby book. Compelling stuff'

-- Robert Kitson * The Guardian *

'brilliant and powerful . . . chock-full of fascinating insights and delicious detail'

-- Alan Pearey * Rugby World *

'Hard to beat stories from the horse’s mouth. Quite a stampede here. A riveting account of a ground-breaking tour'

-- Brendan Fanning * The Sunday Independent *

'beautifully captured'

-- Alasdair Reid * The Times *

'phenomenal'

-- Alex Payne * The Good, The Bad and The Rugby *

'A brilliantly evocative recreation of the 1997 tour, put together with great skill ... rawness and emotion drips from the pages'

-- Peter O’Reilly * The Times Ireland *

'probably the grestest rugby book of all time'

-- Andy Rowe * The Rugby Pod *

Tom English is an award-winning BBC Sport writer and broadcaster. A former Irish rugby correspondent with the Sunday Times and chief sports writer with Scotland on Sunday, he was voted Scottish Sports Feature Writer of the Year six times.

Peter Burns has been a sports editor for over ten years. He is the author of eight books, including Behind the Thistle: Playing Rugby for Scotland; Behind the Ryder Cup: The Players' Stories; Scottish Rugby 101 and White Gold: England's Journey to World Cup Glory. 

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ISBN 13	9781913538125
ISBN 10	1913538125
Title	This is Your Everest
Author	Tom English
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Polaris Publishing Limited
Year published	2021-05-27
Number of pages	320
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