Destination Sport is your guide to one of the world's great
obsessions: to the teams, the games, the venues, the histories and the
personalities that all come together to form something amazing. Matches
that freeze economies. Races that stop nations. Rivalries that stretch
back through centuries. This is the world of sport, electrifying and
fascinating, thrilling and endlessly revealing. You can't hope to
understand a nation without understanding its pastimes and passions, and
that, so often, is sport.
Organized into sections by world region, Destination Sport features a
line-up of sports, events and sporting venues that are both familiar and
obscure, from world-famous match-ups to little known quirks. There's
also a focus on the world's best stadiums and a calendar of sporting
events. This is the ideal book for sports lovers who want to understand
the full gamut of sports around the world, watch them all on TV and
perhaps even travel to join the locals in their passion. Illustrations
by UK artist Paul Reid.