Ripley's World Andy Ripley

Name: Ripley's World By Andy Ripley
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Ripley's World by Andy Ripley

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Winner of the National Sporting Club's prestigious British Rugby Book of the Year Award for 2008, Ripley's World transforms and redefines the genre of the sports autobiography.

Ripley's World Summary

Ripley's World: The Enthralling Story of the British Lion's Most Crucial Battle by Andy Ripley

Winner of the National Sporting Club's prestigious British Rugby Book of the Year Award for 2008, Ripley's World transforms and redefines the genre of the sports autobiography. In a moving and intimate memoir, Andy Ripley, England rugby icon and victorious British Lion, television Superstar and world rowing champion, reflects on a life of sporting achievement and confronts his most powerful and dangerous challenge yet - his diagnosis with prostate cancer. Told with typical candour and courage, it is an absorbing and inspirational story.

Ripley's World Reviews

"Moving and surprisingly entertaining (Book of the Week)" * The Independent *
"Ripley doesn't have taboos. He will talk about anything. Love, death, sex, God and penile dysfunction" -- Sue Mott * Daily Telegraph *
"Frank and compelling" * Publishing News *

About Andy Ripley

Andy Ripley was capped twenty-four times for the England international rugby team throughout the 1970s and was one of Willie John's invincible Lions in 1974. Thereafter a successful businessman, he held the world indoor rowing record for heavyweight men for ten years. Born in 1947 and raised in Liverpool, he had three children and lived with his wife in Surrey until his death in June 2010.

Additional information

Sku

GOR001436644

ISBN 13

9781845964221

ISBN 10

1845964225

Title

Ripley's World: The Enthralling Story of the British Lion's Most Crucial Battle by Andy Ripley

Author

Andy Ripley

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Transworld Publishers Ltd

Year published

2008-05-01

Number of pages

304

Prizes

N/A

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