Nunquam Dormio

150 Years of Harlequins

Brendan Gallagher (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

264 Seiten

2017
Vision Sports Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
9781909534629 (ISBN)

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This lavish and richly illustrated official history of the Harlequin Football Club has been produced to celebrate the 150th anniversary of one of the world's most famous rugby clubs. Nunquam Dormio - the club's motto, 'I Never Sleep' - brings the rich history and heritage of this unique club to life, telling the story of the journey from nomadic amateur club to premier, professional organisation over 264 lavishly designed pages brimming with previously unseen photographs and images of historic memorabilia. Written by highly respected rugby writer Brendan Gallagher in association with many of the key figures in the club's history and compiled by an award-winning publishing team, this book has been put together with the style and spirit of excellence with which Harlequin Football Club is synonymous very much in mind.
It focuses not just on the triumphs and the trophies, but crucially the individual and inspirational Harlequins who encapsulate the 'Harlequin Way' and have ensured that the club has always been at the forefront of the game's development - the rugby pioneers who forged not just the shape of the club but rugby itself; the numerous Harlequin war heroes; the great amateurs who devoted everything on top of their day jobs and, in modern times, those who have embraced the professional era and ensured that the magenta, French grey, light blue and chocolate brown quartered flag continues to fly at the pinnacle of the game. Nunquam Dormio is a living, breathing history of Harlequin FC and a fitting centrepiece for its 150th anniversary celebrations.

Brendan Gallagher started covering Rugby seriously back in 1985 when he was the Pontypool reporter for the South Wales Argus. Since then he has worked for the South Wales Echo, Hayters Sports Agency and The Daily Telegraph covering every World Cup and 31 consecutive Five or Six Nations championships. In addition to rugby, he has 'majored' in athletics, cycling and basketball and ghosted autobiographies with Brian O'Driscoll, Bradley Wiggins and Nicole Cooke while also writing The Games, the official History of Great Britain and the Olympics, and a similar book detailing the first eight Rugby World Cup competitions. By way of a diversion he penned spoof biographies of comic book heroes Alf 'Tough of the Track' Tupper, Wilson of the Wizard and Roy of the Rovers. He is currently working on a 100th anniversary history of the Giro D'Italia and reports on rugby for The Rugby Paper.

Erscheinungsdatum	15.01.2017
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	297 x 230 mm
Gewicht	1533 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport
Themenwelt	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft
ISBN-13	9781909534629 / 9781909534629
Zustand	Neuware