In this book Hemingway shares his passion for bullfighting. The technical skills are described and explained, with chapters on individual bullfighters and the bulls. This work also contains a number of short stories inspired by the intense life and inevitable death of those violent afternoons.
Elephants, lions, tigers and leopards evoke fascination and awe, fear and excitement. This book analyzes trained acts in twentieth-century live circus and cinema, reveals how humans anthropomorphize animals with their emotions, and interrogates the notion that animals embody a phenomenology of emotions and feelings in culture.
In 1939, a troupe of eight rodeo riders, accompanied by an RCMP officer, travelled to Sydney, Australia to compete in "The Royal Easter Show" & documents an important, yet little-known, moment in Canadian history when a First Nations team of athletes represented Canada in international sport.
Shares the sights, the sounds, the excitement, and the knowledge which fuelled the authors passion for Spain and the bullfight. This book contains some of his finest writing, inspired by the intense life, as well as the inevitable death, of those hot, violent afternoons.
A biography of the greatest elephant ever known. Born in Africa in 1863, Jumbo was orphaned by ivory-hunters, 'rescued' and taken to France. Mistaken for a runt, he was sold to London Zoo. Drawing on modern knowledge of elephant behaviour and biology, it also looks at Jumbo from a zoologist's point of view. Why was he thought to be a runt?
The author has spent a year travelling with bullfighters to watch them work in the bullrings and ranches of Spain, France and Portugal. In this book, he follows the tracks of a whole bullfighting year in Spain. He trains and takes part in the sport himself. He gives us portraits of bull-fighters and bulls, of owners, trainers, and fans.
Sex and death are brought together in bullfighting. A man faces death while the crowd looks on, and so people are drawn to the arena to witness the ultimate spectator sport. Here A.L. Kennedy explores all the definitions: sport, art form, stylized torture.