Ripley's World
The Enthralling Story of the British Lion's Most Crucial Battle
Published on 1. May 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-1-84596-422-1 (ISBN)
Description
Winner of the National Sporting Club's prestigious British Rugby Book of the Year Award for 2008, Ripley's World transforms and redefines the genre of the sports autobiography. In a moving and intimate memoir, Andy Ripley, England rugby icon and victorious British Lion, television Superstar and world rowing champion, reflects on a life of sporting achievement and confronts his most powerful and dangerous challenge yet - his diagnosis with prostate cancer. Told with typical candour and courage, it is an absorbing and inspirational story.
Reviews / Votes
Moving and surprisingly entertaining (Book of the Week) * The Independent * Ripley doesn't have taboos. He will talk about anything. Love, death, sex, God and penile dysfunction -- Sue Mott * Daily Telegraph * Frank and compelling * Publishing News *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
225 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84596-422-1 (9781845964221)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
E-Book
05/2011
1st Edition
Mainstream Digital
€8.49
Available for download
Person
Andy Ripley was capped twenty-four times for the England international rugby team throughout the 1970s and was one of Willie John's invincible Lions in 1974. Thereafter a successful businessman, he held the world indoor rowing record for heavyweight men for ten years. Born in 1947 and raised in Liverpool, he had three children and lived with his wife in Surrey until his death in June 2010.