- Hardcover: 416 pages
- Publisher: HarperSport (1 Oct 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0007251130
- ISBN-13: 978-0007251131
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15 x 3.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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Amazon Bestsellers Rank:
76,220 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #58 in Books > Sports, Hobbies & Games > Rugby (Union & League) > Union: History & Biography
- #61 in Books > Biography > Sport > Rugby
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‘Quite simply the most talented, most exciting Scottish player of his generation’ The Scotsman
'This is a very good book. It will be read and enjoyed by tens of thousands of fans. It should be required reading too for all those responsible, at Murrayfield and elsewhere, for the organisation of the game in Scotland.' The Scotsman.
'The best Scottish sport autobiography of the year…a pleasure to read for any rugby fan.' The Scotsman
Book of the Week in The Independent - ‘Talk of the Toony is a brilliantly penned tome: a candid, disarmingly self-effacing self-portrait of the most gifted Scottish rugby player of recent times, and much more besides.'
The Scotsman
`Quite simply the most talented, most exciting Scottish player of his generation'
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
What a great read this book is!
Part sports biography, part modern social history and part travel book.
It's very well written and gives a tremendous insight into the machinations within rugby union in the last 20 years of the 20th century as the game became professional around the world. Townsend does not mince words and some pre-conceived notions of mine were certainly challenged.
I recommend this book to anyone who has an interest in rugby or sporting politics or to anyone who just wants to read a sporting autobiography written by one of the best scottish rugby players of the last 30 years.
Part sports biography, part modern social history and part travel book.
It's very well written and gives a tremendous insight into the machinations within rugby union in the last 20 years of the 20th century as the game became professional around the world. Townsend does not mince words and some pre-conceived notions of mine were certainly challenged.
I recommend this book to anyone who has an interest in rugby or sporting politics or to anyone who just wants to read a sporting autobiography written by one of the best scottish rugby players of the last 30 years.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
My husband thinks this is a wonderful book. Tracking his career from early days to controversial retirement. A must have for all rugby fans not just the scottish ones. Would make an excellent present.
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