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Livres anciens et modernes

Fraser, George Macdonald

Black Ajax

Carroll & Graf, 1998

50,00 €

Kalamos Books

(STREETSVILLE, Canada)

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Détails

Année
1998
ISBN
0786705531
Lieu d'édition
New York
Auteur
Fraser, George Macdonald
Éditeurs
Carroll & Graf
Thème
REGENCY ENGLAND HISTORIAL FICTION, FLASHMAN HARRY PAGET HISTORICAL SPORTS BLACKS BOXING
Description
As New
Description
H
Jaquette
Oui
Etat de conservation
Tres bonne condition
Reliure
Couverture rigide
Dédicacée
Non
Premiére Edition
Non

Description

When Captain Buck Flashman sees the black boxer catch a fly in mid-flight he realizes that he is in the presence of speed such as the prize ring has never seen. Tom Molineaux may be crude and untutored, but if 'Mad Buck' knows anything (and like his notorious son, the archcad Harry Flashman, he has an unerring eye for the main chance), this ex-slave from America is a Champion in the making, on whose broad shoulders the ambitious Captain can climb to sporting and social fame. Under his patronage, the 'Black Ajax' is carried on a popular tide of sporting fever to his great dream: to fight the invincible, undefeated Champion of England, the great Tom Cribb. The story of Molineaux and his eventual battles with Cribb is told through a series of superbly original and individual voices -- colourful, powerful and funny. Together they create a magnificent picture of Regency England and a portrait of a flawed hero who surmounted the barriers of ignorance, poverty and race hatred to bring the prize ring a lustre it had never known before, and may never again.249p. glossary, unread, remainder mark, else as new.

Edizione: 1st us ed.