Polo The Emperor of Games

Name: Polo The Emperor of Games
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ISBN: 9780394571614

ISBN-10: 0394571614

ISBN-13: 9780394571614

Edition: 1994

Authors: Frank Milburn

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"This rich and informal social history of polo traces the great and exciting international sport that Winston Churchill called "the emperor of games" through 2,000 years - from its origin at the edge of civilization in ancient Tibet to the royal courts of Persia, to India, where it eventually was taken up by the British, down to the present day." "Frank Milburn, himself a scion of one of polo's first families, centers his book on the development of the game in the United States. He writes of the halcyon 1920s, when crowds of 40,000 would watch the great Tommy Hitchcock in action on a Long Island greensward as big as fifteen football fields. He describes the fifty-year dominance (the longest…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/11/1994
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 192
Size: 7.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English