This is Your Everest - The Lions, The Springboks and the Epic Tour of 1997

This is Your Everest delves to the heart of the most famous Lions tour of the modern age. Featuring brand-new interviews with both the Lions and Springboks players and management, as well as featuring thoughts on the tour from modern-day greats who were inspired by the '97 tour including Jonny Wilkinson, Brian O'Driscoll, Sam Warburton and more.

About the author

Tom English is an award-winning BBC Sport writer and broadcaster. He won Rugby Book of the Year at the 2011 British Sports Book Awards for The Grudge, before claiming the prize again in 2016 for No Borders: Playing Rugby for Ireland. He is a co-author of the best-selling Behind the Lions: Playing Rugby for the British & Irish Lions.

Summary

This is Your Everest delves to the heart of the most famous Lions tour of the modern age. Featuring brand-new interviews with both the Lions and Springboks players and management, as well as featuring thoughts on the tour from modern-day greats who were inspired by the ’97 tour including Jonny Wilkinson, Brian O’Driscoll, Sam Warburton and more.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Burns, Tom English
• Publisher: Birlinn
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2021
• EAN: 9781913538125
• ISBN: 978-1-913538-12-5
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 239 mm x 35 mm
• Weight: 642 g
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > General, dictionaries, handbooks, yearbooks, history; Humanities, art, music > History; Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, SPORTS & RECREATION / General, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain, Sports & Recreation