The First XV - A Selection of the Best Rugby Writing: A Selection of the Best Rugby Writing - Hardcover
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We all like choosing the best-ever rugby team, but here is a XV with a difference. A team of fifteen writers, not players, describe the exhilaration of the game, and the emotions of the most passionate followers in the world, in some classic prose. They deserve the best team we can put on the field. Here it is a selection of world-beating writing on rugby.,Blodeugerdd o un ar bymtheg o ysgrifau a dwy gerdd yn portreadu'r wefr a brofir mewn gêm rygbi ac yn adlewyrchu emosiwn y Cymry, dilynwyr rygbi mwyaf angerddol y byd, gyda rhagair gan un o gewri'r gorffennol - Gerald Davies. Detholiad o ddarnau rhyddiaith am rygbi i lorio'r byd! -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
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Gareth Williams has written and broadcast extensively on the sporting and musical history of South Wales. He is the author or coauthor of several books, including Fields of Praise, Valleys of Song, and Wales and its Boxers, and a former history professor and director of the Center for Modern and Contemporary Wales at the University of Glamorgan. Gerald Davies is one of the acknowledged greats of Welsh rugby, playing for Cardiff RFC and London Welsh. He is also a journalist for the Times and a chairman of the Wales Youth Agency.
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