Test of Time

Author:

By John Lazenby

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Paperback

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Cricket, Biography, Ashes, Tours

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Further Details

• Published: 10th Apr 2006
• ISBN: 0719566533
• Pages: 256
• Photos: 16
• Size: 198mm x 129mm

From the Publisher:

"Test of Time" is at once a heartfelt celebration of cricket, a unique personal history and an evocative portrait of a bygone era. John Lazenby's interest in cricket began as a boy with a glimpse of his grandfather's old leather cricket bag stored in the rafters. His curiosity piqued, he explored its contents to discover a faded blazer, scuffed ball and linseed-scented bats. Decades later, when he found a box of letters written by his grandfather, J. R. Mason, on the boat to Australia for the 1897-98 Ashes tour, John was inspired to retrace the journey.

John's tour through the Australian cities and remote towns visited by England cricketers over a hundred years ago uncovers a wealth of anecdotes and memorabilia. His narrative vividly evokes not only Mason and his teammates, but a wider sense of late Victorian mores at home and abroad.