Tweet
This was in the Boxing Collector's Newsletter, by Don Scott
"Old Subject but NEW (and great) Book
It really isn't until you get into Adam Pollack's new book on Corbett that you can answer for yourself the question that has first come to mind. "Why would anyone write another book on Jim Corbett?"
The answer is that if you write well and have the incredible tenacity it takes to sift through hundreds of newspaper accounts of any celebrity’s life, you will likely produce a largely untold account of that life.
That is certainly what has happened here. To BCN readers, think Harry Shaffer's articles seen here from time to time. Actual newspaper quotes knitted together by the kind of narrative style that old Harry (nor moi) could ever master. What emerges is a fresh account of a fascinating figure. And the photos therein are also anything but ordinary.
Adam has now done Sullivan and Corbett and will be giving us Fitzsimmons next, then Jeffries. We can hardly wait.
It is available at lulu.com. See http://stores.lulu.com/apollack.
"Old Subject but NEW (and great) Book
It really isn't until you get into Adam Pollack's new book on Corbett that you can answer for yourself the question that has first come to mind. "Why would anyone write another book on Jim Corbett?"
The answer is that if you write well and have the incredible tenacity it takes to sift through hundreds of newspaper accounts of any celebrity’s life, you will likely produce a largely untold account of that life.
That is certainly what has happened here. To BCN readers, think Harry Shaffer's articles seen here from time to time. Actual newspaper quotes knitted together by the kind of narrative style that old Harry (nor moi) could ever master. What emerges is a fresh account of a fascinating figure. And the photos therein are also anything but ordinary.
Adam has now done Sullivan and Corbett and will be giving us Fitzsimmons next, then Jeffries. We can hardly wait.
It is available at lulu.com. See http://stores.lulu.com/apollack.
Comment