by Scyld Berry, Rupert Peploe · Methuen Publishing Ltd · tapa dura · ISBN 9780413776273
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«Cricket's Burning Passion» is the historical account by Scyld Berry and Rupert Peploe of the first Ashes tour, published by Methuen Publishing Ltd in hardcover (256 pages, in English).
The book reconstructs the 1882-1883 tour in which England regained the symbolic ashes of cricket against Australia under the captaincy of the Hon. Ivo Bligh. It combines the sporting narrative with the love story between the English captain and Florence Morphy, a young Australian piano teacher, and incorporates unpublished diaries and letters from Bligh's family.
Includes a foreword by Michael Atherton. Winner of the Cricket Society/MCC Book of the Year 2006.
Recommended for cricket fans and for those interested in sports stories with a biographical background.
Anthony Scyld Ivens Berry, known as Scyld Berry is an English journalist and cricket correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. He was editor of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack from 2008 until 2011.
