Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (423 Seiten).
ISBN:
978-1-4780-2345-6
Inhalt:
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 Dončić and Giannis Antetokounmpo. A loving celebration of basketball, Big Game, Small World is one of the most insightful books ever written about the game
Anmerkung:
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Nov 2022)
,
In English
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-1-47801-880-3
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1215/9781478023456
DOI:
10.1515/9781478023456
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478023456?locatt=mode:legacy
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781478023456
