Crusoe on Cricket: Collected Cricket Writings - Softcover

Robertson-Glasgow, R. C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 090751670X ISBN 13: 9780907516705

Publisher: Pavilion Books, 1985

Synopsis

In Crusoe on Cricket, Alan Ross presents the best work of a masterly writer who, with Neville Cardus, helped to raise cricket reporting from journalism into an art. R.C. Robertson-Glasgow, who was never known as anything but Crusoe, wrote about cricket with a natural grace, elegance and wit that no one has exceeded. The collection opens with the section of his autobiography that concerns his playing days for Oxford and Somerset . Then comes The Brighter Side of Cricket, in which Crusoe captures the spirit of the game he loved, with its jokey comedy, its rich nostalgias and fantasies.

Crusoe was a master of compression and the constraints of the brief Cricket Prints which he wrote for the Observer suited him admirably. In this unique gallery of portraits he dissects the technique and conveys the character of the leading players of the period between 1920 and 1950. The remaining sections deal with such obscure but vital fringe figures as scorers, umpires and groundsmen, village veterans and club eccentrics, in whom Crusoe took endless delight.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pavilion Books
• Publication date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 090751670X
• ISBN 13: 9780907516705
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320