Batting on the Bosphorous

A Liquor-fueled Cricket Tour through Eastern Europe

Nonfiction, Travel, Europe, Eastern Europe
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Author: Angus Bell ISBN: 9781926812007
Publisher: Greystone Books Ltd. Publication: January 4, 2012
Imprint: Greystone Books Language: English
Author: Angus Bell
ISBN: 9781926812007
Publisher: Greystone Books Ltd.
Publication: January 4, 2012
Imprint: Greystone Books
Language: English

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In Batting on the Bosphorus, a hilarious and eccentric traveler’s tale, Scotsman Angus Bell leaves the Montreal magazine industry and sets off in his Skoda to discover a hidden cricketing world across central and Eastern Europe. From Estonia to Crimea, Bell learns that Slavs are playing the Englishman's game.

Between games, Bell is pursued by the KGB, becomes embroiled in a drug bust on the Midnight Express, and seeks emergency treatment from a Romanian dentist. His travel companions include a Guatemalan anarchist, a Ukrainian chicken, and a tobacco farmer who played cricket and rugby for Rhodesia.

""Like A.A. Gill, another Scottish-born travel writer with a gimlet eye, Bell's participatory journalism is immersed in snappy, concise observations that create genuine belly laughs."" -- Globe & Mail

""Bill Bryson meets Jack Kerouac, peppered with Judith Chalmers...Priceless!"" -- All Out Cricket

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In Batting on the Bosphorus, a hilarious and eccentric traveler’s tale, Scotsman Angus Bell leaves the Montreal magazine industry and sets off in his Skoda to discover a hidden cricketing world across central and Eastern Europe. From Estonia to Crimea, Bell learns that Slavs are playing the Englishman's game.

Between games, Bell is pursued by the KGB, becomes embroiled in a drug bust on the Midnight Express, and seeks emergency treatment from a Romanian dentist. His travel companions include a Guatemalan anarchist, a Ukrainian chicken, and a tobacco farmer who played cricket and rugby for Rhodesia.

""Like A.A. Gill, another Scottish-born travel writer with a gimlet eye, Bell's participatory journalism is immersed in snappy, concise observations that create genuine belly laughs."" -- Globe & Mail

""Bill Bryson meets Jack Kerouac, peppered with Judith Chalmers...Priceless!"" -- All Out Cricket

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