Book description
Best of British is a celebration of the nation's greatest 100
sporting heroes, from Henry VIII to Red Rum, Roy of the Rovers to
Torvill and Dean. Jon Henderson has combed through the annals of our
glorious and not so glorious past to bring us the geniuses and the
eccentrics, the national treasures and the villains who together have
shaped our present.
Trueman and W. G., Best and Edwards, racing drivers, jockeys, rowers
- just what does it take to make a sporting superhero? Hendo's 100
reveals all. Opinionated and provocative, his witty character studies
- accompanied by stylish illustrations - capture the essence of his
subjects' greatness, re-evaluating the famous and rescuing the
forgotten. But when there's a cast of thousands to choose from, and
hundreds of years of history to explore, who will make the cut for the
most heroic of the heroic? Find out, in Best of British.
Jon Henderson has been a sports journalist for forty years. A former
Reuters correspondent, he has reported on five Olympics, countless
England cricket tours and two football World Cups, and he has covered
every Wimbledon since 1969. He is now tennis correspondent and deputy
sports editor of the
Observer
.
