In this book Hemingway shares his passion for bullfighting. The technical skills are described and explained, with chapters on individual bullfighters and the bulls. This work also contains a number of short stories inspired by the intense life and inevitable death of those violent afternoons.

Shares the sights, the sounds, the excitement, and the knowledge which fuelled the authors passion for Spain and the bullfight. This book contains some of his finest writing, inspired by the intense life, as well as the inevitable death, of those hot, violent afternoons.

A biography of the greatest elephant ever known. Born in Africa in 1863, Jumbo was orphaned by ivory-hunters, 'rescued' and taken to France. Mistaken for a runt, he was sold to London Zoo. Drawing on modern knowledge of elephant behaviour and biology, it also looks at Jumbo from a zoologist's point of view. Why was he thought to be a runt?

Sex and death are brought together in bullfighting. A man faces death while the crowd looks on, and so people are drawn to the arena to witness the ultimate spectator sport. Here A.L. Kennedy explores all the definitions: sport, art form, stylized torture.

Presents tales from across the folklore of the animal kingdom: a learned pig more admired than Sir Isaac Newton by the English public, an elephant that Lord Byron wanted to employ as his butler, and a dancing horse whose skills in mathematics were praised by William Shakespeare. This book tells ten stories of beliefs and Ripley-like facts.

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Stirring black-and-white photographs of spectators and participants provide an unsentimental, hometown view of Montana's small-town rodeo circuit. For anyone who ever wanted to be a cowgirl or cowboy -- or for anyone just in love with the West -- this book will bring to you the sound of pounding hooves, the slap of leather, the smell of dust and of cheering crowds.

In 1939, a troupe of eight rodeo riders, accompanied by an RCMP officer, travelled to Sydney, Australia to compete in the Royal Easter Show, and documents an important, yet little-known, moment in Canadian history when a First Nations team of athletes represented Canada in international sport.

In his interpretation of bullfighting, the author of this text maintains that the view of the sport as Spain's rejection of the modern world is both the product of myth and a complete misunderstanding of the real roots of the contemporary bullfight.

This delectable slice of Americana ( ) explores the glitter and the glamour of the rodeo subculture and, at the same time, some of its deepest contradictions. ( is a bittersweet journey into the lives of women who have worked the rodeo circuit in the rural West from the 1930s to the present.

Apassionata is Europe's most successful and spectacular horse show. Consummate horsemanship and noble steeds are beautifully shown off by colourful costumes, captivating music and astonishing lighting effects. This is a book of the show. It also features pictures and the original music from a wide variety of performances across Europe.