The Resource The Grand National : a celebration of the world's greatest horse race, Anne Holland
The Grand National : a celebration of the world's greatest horse race, Anne Holland
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The item The Grand National : a celebration of the world's greatest horse race, Anne Holland represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in City of Westminster Libraries.
This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
- Summary
- Every year the Grand National produces very different stories from jockeys and horses alike; uplifting scenes from a victor and heartbreak when a mere inch divides the loser from the winner at the end of nearly four-and-a-half miles and 30 challenging fences. The race has evolved over the years but there is one constant: luck, or the lack of it. How fitting, then, that in 1839 the first winner was named Lottery. Back then, huge crowds rode to Aintree by horseback, in carriages, carts or on foot. Hotels were so full that some slept four guests to a bed. Today the Grand National is probably the world's most famous horse race, with a global television audience of some 600 million in 140 countries. Anne Holland's richly informed book focuses on the race's various record-breakers, rather than being a purely chronological history
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xv, 302 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781474611985
- Label
- The Grand National : a celebration of the world's greatest horse race
- Title
- The Grand National
- Title remainder
- a celebration of the world's greatest horse race
- Statement of responsibility
- Anne Holland
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Every year the Grand National produces very different stories from jockeys and horses alike; uplifting scenes from a victor and heartbreak when a mere inch divides the loser from the winner at the end of nearly four-and-a-half miles and 30 challenging fences. The race has evolved over the years but there is one constant: luck, or the lack of it. How fitting, then, that in 1839 the first winner was named Lottery. Back then, huge crowds rode to Aintree by horseback, in carriages, carts or on foot. Hotels were so full that some slept four guests to a bed. Today the Grand National is probably the world's most famous horse race, with a global television audience of some 600 million in 140 countries. Anne Holland's richly informed book focuses on the race's various record-breakers, rather than being a purely chronological history
- Cataloging source
- StDuBDS
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Holland, Anne
- Dewey number
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- 798.4'5'0942753
- 798.4'5'0942753
- 798.4'5'0942753
- 798.450942753
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Grand National (Horse race)
- Sport
- Label
- The Grand National : a celebration of the world's greatest horse race, Anne Holland
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
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- text
- still image
- Content type MARC source
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- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 9781474611985
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xv, 302 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781474611985
- Isbn Type
- (hbk.)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations (black and white, and colour)
- Label
- The Grand National : a celebration of the world's greatest horse race, Anne Holland
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 9781474611985
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xv, 302 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781474611985
- Isbn Type
- (hbk.)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations (black and white, and colour)
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