In Search of Will Carling

by Charles Jacoby (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1997

  $4.20

  In October 1994, Red Walsh from the west coast of Ireland, British cavalry officer George Wilson-Fitzgerald, photographer Emma Tindal and author and journalist Charles Jacoby set off from London to drive to the Rugby World Cup in Africa. It was a journey taking seven months over 16,000 miles, and taking them through swamps and deserts. This is the story of their trip, of the helpful and unhelpful people, animals and events that they encountered. It is an account of oddball, upper-class Englishmen and a diminutive Irish girl descending into the scorching remains of the former Empire, with only the World Cup as their beacon.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1996

  $19.87

  In September 1994, three upper-class English rugby fanatics set off in a Land Rover from London to go to the Rugby World Cup in South Africa in May 1995. Along the way, they attempted to arrange matches with tribesmen and inculcate them with British colonial values, with little success. The book, as well as being a travelogue, analyzes the spirit of rugby, its essential Englishness, and how flimsy Old World values are in the face of the New World, professionalism and ambition.