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Product details
- ISBN 9781915237392
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 May 2024
- Publisher: Trinorth Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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What - you may ask is the point of an English perspective on French sport? In David Owen's own words,
"you might just as well seek out a sea otter's take on kabuki". Nevertheless, having lived upwards of ten per
cent of his life in France, and a lot more than that immersed in French grammar, current affairs and culture,
he offers exactly that in this entertaining new book.
Drawing on examples from the past six centuries, the author explores sport's philosophical standing in
France's cultural DNA; its role in the popularisation of the Republic; the birth of the Olympics, the Tour de
France and the football World Cup; French pre-eminence at real tennis and truffle hunting; and - of course -
'la difference' between British and French attitudes to sport.
David Owen is a former sports editor of the Financial Times, for which he worked for twenty years in
the USA, Canada, France and Great Britain. A leading authority on the Olympic movement, he wrote a
weekly column for the insidethegames.biz website for many years. His horseracing book, Foinavon: The
Story of the Grand National's Biggest Upset, won the Dr Tony Ryan Book Award. His other books include
Thomi Keller: A Life in Sport, Rain Starts Play, A Short History of Cricket at Everdon Hall, and No Snail.
