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Cricket » Cricket Books » Cricket History » CRICKET ACROSS THE SEA; OR, THE WANDERINGS AND MATCHES OF THE GENTLEMEN OF CANADA, BY TWO OF THE VAGRANTS

CRICKET ACROSS THE SEA; OR, THE WANDERINGS AND MATCHES OF THE GENTLEMEN OF CANADA, BY TWO OF THE VAGRANTS

CRICKET ACROSS THE SEA; OR, THE WANDERINGS AND MATCHES OF THE GENTLEMEN OF CANADA, BY TWO OF THE VAGRANTS

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An account of the tour of Great Britain and Ireland in 1887 by the Gentlemen of Canada. Originally published in Toronto, this is an exact facsimile reprint with the addition of a new historical introduction and a dust-wrapper. Canada is not renowned as a cricket-playing nation but it does have a long tradition of the game.

8vo. xxii + 223pp. Photographic frontis. of the team. Brown, bonded-leather covers, gilt title on the spine. Dust-wrapper, as new.

Date
2003
Publisher
Bolton: Red Rose Books
Author
(Dyce Willcocks SAUNDERS & George Goldwin Lindsay SMITH)

£35.00 (Code: 24780)

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