Harry Pearson, Jahrgang 1961, hatte bis 2012 eine wöchentliche Sportkolumne im Guardian, schrieb mehr als 20 Jahre lang für das monatliche Fußballmagazin When Saturday Comes und ist Autor mehrerer preisgekrönter Sportbücher. The Observer und The Times haben seine Werke in die Auswahl der 50 bedeutendsten Sportbücher aller Zeiten aufgenommen, er wurde Zweiter beim Daily Telegraph Prize, gewann den Cricket Society Prize und fand sich 2017 und 2019 mit zwei verschiedenen Büchern auf der Longlist des William Hill Sports Book of the Year Awards wieder.
15 Ebooks by Harry Pearson
Harry Pearson: Racing Pigs And Giant Marrows
Following his acclaimed book about football in the north-east, THE FAR CORNER, Harry Pearson vowed that his next project would not involve hanging around outdoors on days so cold that itinerant dogs …
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€3.99
Harry Pearson: Dribble!
Ten years in the making, Dribble! is an A-Z of credulity-twanging facts and stories about what Pele once memorably dubbed ‘my bloody job’. It includes definitive explanations of everyday phrases such …
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€2.49
Harry Pearson: Tall Man In A Low Land
Most British travel writers head south for a destination that is hot, exotic, dangerous or all three. Harry Pearson chose to head in the opposite direction for a country which is damp, safe and of …
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€3.99
Harry Pearson: Achtung Schweinehund!
This is a book about men and war. Not real conflict but war as it has filtered down to generations of boys and men through toys, comics, games and movies. Harry Pearson belongs to the great battalion …
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€3.99
Harry Pearson: Hound Dog Days
A decade and one dog after penning the bestselling Racing Pigs And Giant Marrows, and inspired by the purchase of his new hound, a petit basset-griffon Vendeen called Little Man, Harry Pearson …
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English
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€3.99
Harry Pearson: Far Corner
A book in which Wilf Mannion rubs shoulders with The Sunderland Skinhead: recollections of Len Shakleton blight the lives of village shoppers: and the appointment of Kevin Keegan as manager of …
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English
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€3.99
Harry Pearson: Slipless In Settle
Slipless in Settle is a sentimental journey around club cricket in the north of England, a world far removed from the clich d lengthening-shadows-on-the-village-green image of the summer game. This …
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€3.99
Harry Pearson: Trundlers
Some men are born medium-paced, some achieve medium-pace, and some have medium-pace thrust upon them.Bowlers who take wickets not with pace or spin, but – at speeds between 65 and 85mph – by nagging …
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€1.99
Harry Pearson: Connie
Winner of the MCC Book of the Year Award His father was a first-class cricketer, his grandfather was a slave.Born in rural Trinidad in 1901, Learie Constantine was the most dynamic all-round …
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€3.99
Harry Pearson: Un géant au Plat Pays
Les anecdotes d”un Britannique en voyage en Belgique
Depuis 1995, Harry Pearson a fait de longs séjours en Belgique, un pays que les Britanniques trouvent généralement ennuyeux. Il a assisté à d …
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French
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€15.03
Pearson Harry Pearson: Beast, the Emperor and the Milkman
SHORTLISTED FOR THE TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2020 CYCLING BOOK OF THE YEARLONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019’A joy.’ Ned Boulting Every nation shapes sport to test the …
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€11.97
Harry Pearson: Farther Corner
LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE 2020One of the funniest books Ive read Arthur Mathews, co-writer of Father Ted Widely regarded as one of the best football books ever …
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€7.64
Harry Pearson & Olaf Bentkämper: Quer durch Flandern
Wo Radsport Religion ist…
Der Radsport ist in ganz Belgien wahnsinnig populär, aber in Flandern ist er geradezu Teil der Volksseele, der nationalen Identität.
Sportjournalist und Belgienkenner …
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German
€11.99
Harry Pearson: First of the Summer Wine
The remarkable story of three Yorkshire cricketers from the Golden Age – George Hirst, Wilfred Rhodes and Schofield Haigh – who transformed their countys fortunes, inspired a generation of cricketers …
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English
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€9.18
Harry Pearson: No Pie, No Priest
Writer Harry Pearson takes a warm and witty journey around Britain in pursuit of the lost folk sports that somehow still linger on in the glitzy era of the Premier League and Sky Sports to find out …
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English
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€15.30
