Know Your Sport: Rugby
Published on 14. June 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
32 pages
978-1-4451-0804-9 (ISBN)
Description
Comprehensive photographic guides to playing and enjoying the world's top sports.
Whether you are taking part or just watching, rugby is an exciting and dramatic sport. Discover all you need to know about it, from training to playing, while profiles and stats tell you more about the world's greatest players.
Whether you are taking part or just watching, rugby is an exciting and dramatic sport. Discover all you need to know about it, from training to playing, while profiles and stats tell you more about the world's greatest players.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Hachette Children's Group
Target group
Children/juvenile
Dimensions
Height: 270 mm
Width: 167 mm
Thickness: 3 mm
Weight
144 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4451-0804-9 (9781445108049)
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Person
Clive Gifford is the author of more than 150 children's books including Eye Benders, winner of the Royal Society Young People's Book Prize, Royal Society-nominated Out of This World and Cool Technology which won the School Library Association Information Book Award. His book, The Colours of History, won the Blue Peter Book Awards' Best Book With Facts. He has travelled through 70 countries, run a computer games company and taken part in all manner of sports from parachuting and gliding to Ultimate Frisbee. Clive's official website can be found at www.clivegifford.co.uk
Content
1: Introduction
2: Players, pitch and positions
3: Training and kit
4: Passing
5: Catching
6: Timing runs
7: Beating an opponent
8: Tackling
9: Kicking
10: Union and league differences 1
11: Union and league differences 2
12: Statistics and records
13: Glossary
14: Index
2: Players, pitch and positions
3: Training and kit
4: Passing
5: Catching
6: Timing runs
7: Beating an opponent
8: Tackling
9: Kicking
10: Union and league differences 1
11: Union and league differences 2
12: Statistics and records
13: Glossary
14: Index