Download or read book Bare Fists written by Bob Mee and published by . This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text takes a look at the forgotten world of bare-knuckle prize-fighting, from the heyday of pugilism in the 18th century, to its extinction at the end of the 19th, and its re-emergence this century in the form of illegal underground bouts.
Download or read book Bare Hands Numb Skulls written by Nate Cleveland and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the brink of full-fledged adulthood, Nick James doesn't hear a barbaric roar for heroics in his head--but his friends sure do. When a severed arm is mysteriously found in the woods where they spent their summers as kids, Nick and his friends, lead by the irresistible Flint, seem determined to pull a phantom out of the realm of delusion and into the real world. Suspecting that the supposed specter they witnessed as teenagers is responsible for the severed arm, the five friends take to the wild for a camping reunion. And when a Lovecraftian cult arrives proclaiming the end of the world, Nick feels things are slipping into the surreal--exactly where Flint wants them to be. Bare Hands, Numb Skulls is a slice of pulp mythology that takes timeless motifs into off beat and unexpected directions. It explores the dynamics of pack buddy-dom and the growing pains of friendship. Nick may not share his friends' primitive lust for risk, but he may yet come to admire their willingness to rush in with the resurrected hope that monsters still lurk, that epic adventure still lives, even in the seemingly sterile woodlands of rural America.
Download or read book Bareknuckle written by Bartley Gorman and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2011-08-30 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As bareknuckle fighting is poised to steal MMA’s spotlight, its greatest modern-day champion tells his story of rising to the top in the brutal sport. Steeped in the tradition of his Irish Traveller ancestry, Bartley Gorman also embraced its dangerous subculture: bareknuckle fighting. Though it gave birth to boxing as we know it today, the sport has remained underground—and illegal in most developed countries. But that didn’t stop Gorman from rising through the prize-fighting ranks of Great Britain and Ireland and staying undefeated for twenty years. Now, through Gorman’s thrilling memoir, readers get a front row view of the punches exchanged in back parking lots and fair grounds, the gritty characters populating the fight circles, and the hazards facing a sought after champion. “A rare glimpse into a secret world,” Bareknuckle celebrates one man’s mastery of fighting in its purest form and heralds the rebirth of one of the oldest combat sports in history (The Independent on Sunday). “Every page shines. A tremendous book.” —Traveller Magazine “Well-written and interesting.” —Boxing News
Download or read book With Her Fists written by Henry Roi and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2022-02-25 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clarice "Shocker" Ares retired from a sensational pro-boxing career to focus on her family and growing mechanic business. In an instant, everything she has worked for is shattered, when the police find a shipment of drugs in their shop, and wrongfully send Clarice and her husband to prison. Incarcerated and desperate after court appeals are denied, Clarice must become the Shocker once more, challenging rival convicts in a deadly prison fight ring to finance her escape. Battling alongside her, armed with his brilliant electronics wizardry, Clarice's husband Ace manipulates the court system to arrange a daring prison break. When their abilities are put to the ultimate test, will they be able to exact their revenge - and regain freedom? This book contains adult content and is not recommended for readers under the age of 18.
Download or read book Waterfront Fists and Others written by Robert E. Howard and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2004-11-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is impossible to ignore the sheer number of boxing stories that Robert E. Howard wrote. Serious or funny, spooky or adventurous, these stories represent a fierce creative outburst that would pave the way later for his western hero, Breckenridge Elkins. In these stories we see Howard's craft pushed from mere construction to passionate involvement. He took all of his interests and peppered them through the various boxing stories. He wrote them faster than the magazine could print them. Clearly, he loved what he was doing. When Howard could write no more, he went on to draft Conan and the aforementioned Elkins, who owes much in style and content to the Costigan stories. The fight stories are a joy to read and reread. They are funny, bawdy, picaresque, and violent. Presented here, as they were originally printed, they perfectly showcase why Robert E. Howard was one of the greatest adventure writers of the 20th century.
Download or read book Legislative History of H R 6950 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 1314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sack Full of Dollars written by Lee Lejeune and published by Robert Hale Ltd. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Smiley is a travelling entertainer. As he and his son and daughter are approaching the small township of Silver Spur in Kansas, they encounter Black Bart, a notorious gunman, who demands money and carbine whips Smiley's son. Smiley, however, is a skilled boxer and humiliates the outlaw, leaving Black Bart hell-bent on revenge, leading to a series of dark and bloody events when the family reach their destination.
Download or read book Nonpareil Jack Dempsey written by Joseph S. Page and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hall of Fame middleweight prizefighter John Edward Kelly, better known as Nonpareil Jack Dempsey, was one of the most popular athletes in the United States during the late 19th century. To many observers, Dempsey is one of the greatest pound-for-pound fighters in ring history. Inside the ropes, he was fearless, poised, quick, agile, and had terrific punching power with both hands. His story is rich--full of amazing highs and terrible lows. He was a poor immigrant Irish boy who scaled great heights to become one of this nation's first sports celebrities. He became a household name, wealthy and popular. But much too soon, it all came crashing down. His violent profession, alcoholism, mental illness, and tuberculosis left little to recognize of the valiant hero of so many battles.
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Download or read book FROM UNDER A KURRAJONG TREE written by Michael John and published by Gatekeeper Press. This book was released on 2020-03-25 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow the life of Jack Jeffery from his birth under a Kurrajong tree in country Victoria, to the hell of fighting the Japanese on the deadly Kokoda Track. On his life journey Jack finds love, becomes a shearer and a promising tent boxer. Through the ups and downs of life Jack learns quickly there is nothing more important than sticking up for a mate when he is in a jam. In the hell that was the Kokoda Track in WW 2, all his life’s lessons will be tested when he is faced by wave after wave of battle-hardened Japanese soldiers.
Download or read book The Seeds of Enchantment written by Gilbert Frankau and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book King of the Gypsies written by Bartley Gorman with Peter Walsh and published by Milo Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-04-06 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Soul written by Jazmin Acosta and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-11-05 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soul is a 15 year old girl who lives on an island with her little brother. Her life is far from perfect, but they both try to make the best of it. It looks like things are going to get better when the mayor, of all people, offers them a helping hand, that is before Soul is whisked away to another world! Even though this was a complete accident, the people in the other world want her help and many times she has to do just that. She is asked or forced into rescuing friends, catching bad guys and staying sane. Not to mention that there was another person from her island who also got stuck in there with her, but they got separated. Even with all this excitement, Soul only ever whishes to go home to her island again. The problem remains, will she be able return in one piece?
Download or read book A Neutral Corner written by A. J. Liebling and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Neutral Corner collects fifteen previously unpublished boxing pieces written by legendary sportswriter A.J. Liebling between 1952 and 1963. Demonstrating A.J. Liebling's abiding passion for the "sweet science" of boxing, A Neutral Corner brings together previously unpublished material. Antic, clear-eyed, and wildly entertaining, these essays showcase a The New Yorker journalist at the top of his form. Here one relives the high drama of the classic Patterson-Johansson championship bout of 1959, and Liebling's early prescient portrayal of Cassius Clay's style as a boxer and a poet is not to be missed. Liebling always finds the human story that makes these essays appealing to aficionados of boxing and prose alike. Alive with a true fan's reverence for the sport, yet balanced by a true skeptic's disdain for sentiment, A Neutral Corner is an American treasure.
Download or read book Addresses and Papers Delivered Annual Meeting written by American Petroleum Institute and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stolen written by Lucy Christopher and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning debut novel with an intriguing literary hook: written in part as a letter from a victim to her abductor. Sensitive, sharp, captivating!Gemma, 16, is on layover at Bangkok Airport, en route with her parents to a vacation in Vietnam. She steps away for just a second, to get a cup of coffee. Ty--rugged, tan, too old, oddly familiar--pays for Gemma's drink. And drugs it. They talk. Their hands touch. And before Gemma knows what's happening, Ty takes her. Steals her away. The unknowing object of a long obsession, Gemma has been kidnapped by her stalker and brought to the desolate Australian Outback. STOLEN is her gripping story of survival, of how she has to come to terms with her living nightmare--or die trying to fight it.
Download or read book Addresses Delivered at General Sessions Annual Meeting American Petroleum Institute Washington D C November 17 18 19 1920 written by American Petroleum Institute and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
