Remarkable Cricket Grounds: An illustrated guide to the world’s best cricket grounds - Hardcover

Levison, Brian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1911216058 ISBN 13: 9781911216056

Publisher: Pavilion Books, 2016

Synopsis

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CROSS SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2017 'Illustrated Book of the Year' CATEGORY

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CRICKET WRITERS' CLUB 'BOOK OF THE YEAR' 2017 AWARD

'If you love cricket grounds as much as I'm afraid I do, this is for you...What a wonderful book to leaf through on a cold winter's evening, when the memories of last season have faded and the horrors of the next are yet to manifest themselves' - Marcus Berkmann, The Daily Mail Picture Books of the Year 2016'

'A must for cricket lovers' - London Evening Standard

'...This goliath stuffed with full-page pictures is rather a pleasure. There are no tricks it does nothing more than it says on the tin. But a simple fat book of beautiful photographs of cricket grounds has a strange effect on the soul. Maybe it is about the photography, which is undoubtedly lovely, but it is also about the individuality of the grounds, the variation of the setting, the aesthetic of the architect and the reminder that beauty can be seen in so many ways'.- Tanya Aldred, The Cricketer

'A lovely new book' - Huw Turbervill, The Googly, The Cricketer

'Author Brian Levison has produced a winner...a bargain at the price'- The Cricket Society Journal

'It's simply stupendous...the photographs are without exception magnificent, the text informed and affectionate ... The book is an incomparable gem' - Mike Amos, The Northern Echo

'A cricket ground is more, much more than somewhere to play cricket. It is a place of peace and beauty; landscape poetry. Even when empty a cricket ground, like a church, can offer a special sort of solace...Brian Levison has selected and observed superbly well. This is a treat; a new classic, forever offering tranquility'. - Vernon Coleman, author of The Village Cricket Tour and Diary of a Cricket Lover.

'Lavishly-produced' - The Press (York)

Remarkable Cricket Grounds is a celebration of some of the most stunning places to watch and play cricket from around the world. Spread across five continents, the wide variety of venues includes venerable Test match grounds, dramatic new stadia, tranquil village greens and a pitch composed of special, termite-aerated soil imported from Lahore in Pakistan.

Featured are some of the world s most beautiful settings in which to experience the game. Newlands at Cape Town in South Africa has the unmistakeable backdrop of Table Mountain, while across the Southern Ocean at Queenstown; the cricket ground on the shores of Lake Wakatipu is an idyllic venue for cricket, ringed as it is by the same mountain range used to shoot The Lord of the Rings films. From tide-washed playing surfaces to snow-covered outfields, each of these 78 cricket grounds has a remarkable story

Brian Levison has a lifelong interest in cricket and played club cricket for several years. His books include the highly acclaimed cricket anthology All in a Day s Play and Amazing & Extraordinary Facts: Cricket. He was one of six writers and commentators selected for the MCC's Cricket Crown Jewels exhibition in the Lord's Museum celebrating 150 years of the Wisden Cricketers Almanack in 2014.

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About the Author:

Brian Levison has a lifelong interest in cricket and played club cricket for several years. His books include the highly acclaimed cricket anthology All in a Day's Play (Constable, 2012) and Amazing & Extraordinary Facts: Cricket (David & Charles, 2012). He was one of six writers and commentators selected for the MCC's 'Cricket's Crown Jewels' exhibition in the Lord's Museum celebrating 150 years of the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack in 2014.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pavilion Books
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1911216058
• ISBN 13: 9781911216056
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224