Barefoot Runner: The Life of Marathon Champion Abebe Bikila - Brossura
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Abebe Bikila was the first black African to win an Olympic gold medal. He won the marathon running barefoot in Rome in 1960 and won again wearing shoes in Tokyo in 1964, becoming the first person to win the most grueling of all human contests twice. Born into bitter poverty in rural Ethiopia in 1932, at sixteen Bikila joined the Imperial Guard of the Emperor Haile Selassie. It was there that he came to the notice of the Swedish athletics coach Onni Niskanen, whom Selassie had engaged to try and raise his country's profile through sport. Bikila became the focus of these ambitions - and an unwitting figurehead for black African nationalism. Following the 1960 Olympics, Bikila's life took a dramatic turn when he was implicated in a failed coup against Selassie. Bikila was initially sentenced to death but was eventually pardoned following Niskanen's intervention. Despite an attack of appendicitis, Bikila recovered in time to win the Olympic marathon once again. Bikila died in 1973.
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Beautifully written, elegiac biography of the first black African to win an Olympic gold medal. (Bookseller)
Rambali brings the athletes, coaches, soldiers and their peculiar monarch beautifully to life in this strange, sad tale. (Daily Telegraph)
Poignant...about far more than Bikila's exploits on the track. (Time Out)
Delivers engrossing accounts of the Byzantine intrigues at Selassie's court...strong on documentary detail. It is impossible to remain unmoved by his accounts of the two great Olympic feats. (Independent)
An ambitious and evocative dramatisation... lyrical... makes you feel you are pounding the pavements alongside Bikila, hearing his breath in your ear (Tim Lewis Observer 2008-07-27)
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Paul Rambali is a writer and broadcaster and was a rock journalist for the NME during the punk era and editor of The Face from 1980-1987. The author of two books about France and works including It's All True - In the Cities and Jungles of Brazil, a personal odyssey exploring issues of development and culture in the Third World, he also ghost-wrote Phoolan Devi, the autobiography of India's Bandit Queen, which has been published in 26 countries.
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- EditoreSerpent's Tail
- Data di pubblicazione2008
- ISBN 10 1846686539
- ISBN 13 9781846686535
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- LinguaInglese
- Numero di pagine320
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