by Lyall Watson · tapa dura · ISBN 9780283997716
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«Sumo» is the illustrated sports book by Lyall Watson, published by Pan Macmillan in hardcover (96 pages, in English).
The work offers a tour of sumo: the wrestlers' ranking scale, the rituals before each bout, the essential moves and rules, and the tough training of aspirants. It includes brief portraits of some of its great figures, and photographs taken in Japan show the daily life of wrestlers and the spectacle of this sport.
The edition was published in 1988 and is illustrated with photographs from Japan; the cover reads «A Channel Four Book».
Suitable for fans of Japanese culture, traditional sport, and documentary photography.
Lyall Watson was a South African botanist, zoologist, biologist, anthropologist, ethologist, and author of many books, among the most popular of which is the best seller Supernature. Lyall Watson tried to make sense of natural and supernatural phenomena in biological terms. He is credited with coining the "hundredth monkey" effect in his 1979 book, Lifetide; later, in The Whole Earth Review, he conceded this was "a metaphor of my own making".
