Big Game, Small World : A Basketball Adventure Hardback
by Alexander Wolff
Hardback
Description
During the late 1990s, eminent basketball journalist Alexander Wolff traveled the globe to determine how a game invented by a Canadian clergyman became an international phenomenon.
Big Game, Small World presents Wolff’s dispatches from sixteen countries spread across five continents and multiple US states.
In them, he asks: What can the game tell us about the world? And what can the world tell us about the game? Whether traveling to Bhutan to challenge its king to a pickup game, exploring the women’s game in Brazil, or covering the Afrobasket tournament in Luanda, Angola, during a civil war, Wolff shows how basketball has the power to define an individual, a culture, and even a country. This updated twentieth anniversary edition features a new preface in which Wolff outlines the contemporary rise of athlete-activists while discussing the increasing dominance within the NBA of marquee international players like Luka DonÄić and Giannis Antetokounmpo.
A loving celebration of basketball, Big Game, Small World is one of the most insightful books ever written about the game.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:424 pages
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:12/09/2023
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- ISBN:9781478016151
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Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:424 pages
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:12/09/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9781478016151
