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Spirit On The Water: XI Extraordinary Cricket Tours
Author(s): Mike Harfield (Author), Mark Butcher (Foreword)
- Publisher: Loose Chippings Books
- Publication Date: 15 Mar. 2011
- Language: English
- Print length: 208 pages
- ISBN-10: 1907991018
- ISBN-13: 9781907991011
Book Description
The tours include an Aborigine team visiting England in 1868, Australia trying to win in India, Sydney Barnes in South Africa, Wally Hammond Down Under, Taverners jaunts to the Balearics and more. The lively conversational style which made Mike Harfield’s previous book, Not Dark Yet, so popular appears again, along with a cornucopia of cricket. Most of the time it is the cricket which lives in the memory; occasionally contemporary events intervene. Always the journey is entertaining.
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About the Author
Mike Harfield used to work for a large multi-national company (think Tony Curtis talking to Marilyn Monroe on the beach in Some Like it Hot). He was made redundant in the early 1990s. After a while, the company thought that it had made a mistake and so asked him back. A few years later they realised that actually it hadn’t been a mistake, and made him redundant again. For this last act he was, and continues to be, eternally grateful. It enabled him to watch virtually every ball of the 2005 Ashes series and write Not Dark Yet. Every cloud has a silver lining, except of course when it brings rain to prevent an England victory. During the summer he plays cricket for the Ash Tree CC at Prestbury in Cheshire. His first book, Not Dark Yet, was published in 2008.
