The World of People in Sport - Hardcover

Sport is basic in human nature. It is part of the nature of every one of us to want to do something better than anyone else. Most of u never achieve this ambition - but we have a lot of healthy fun trying to do so. And that is what sport is al about. This book takes a pictorial look at the main sports that are played throughout the world - sports that claim untold hosts of devoted players, and even more people who come to watch. Also in this book are many sports that are less known, but which still have their ardent followers. But what emerges clearly from these pages is that all sports are contests, whether they are the obvious contests between individuals, or teams, or those which are the affair of one man alone, and the contest becomes one between his will, and his body - a sheer battle to make his body do better than it has ever done before within the agreed set of rules that determine the nature of sport.