Christopher Matthew Bücher
Matt Christopher ist der Autor, zu dem junge Leser greifen, wenn sie nach rasanten, actiongeladenen Sportromanen suchen. Seine Werke erforschen Themen wie Ausdauer, Teamarbeit und den Geist des Spiels, wobei er aus seinen eigenen reichen Erfahrungen im Amateur- und Semiprofi-Baseball schöpft. Christophers einzigartiger Stil fängt den Nervenkitzel des Wettbewerbs ein und verwebt gleichzeitig Lebenslektionen, die bei jungen Lesern Anklang finden. Seine Leidenschaft für den Sport und sein Verständnis für Kindheitserfahrungen festigen seinen Platz als herausragender Autor von Sportliteratur für Kinder.
A Storm of Spears: Understanding the Greek Hoplite at War
- 360 Seiten
- 13 Lesestunden
Reexamines the literary, pictorial and archaeological evidence for hoplite warfare minutely, and combines this with the insights of experimental archaeology using replica weapons and equipment.
Sheds new light and detail upon the weapon system that dominated the ancient battlefield for 200 years.
For those turning sixty, this new edition of Christopher Matthew's tribute to A. A. Milne's classic poems contains fresh material as well as the old favourites.'A wonderful present to sixty-year-olds' Auberon Waugh, Daily Telegraph When Christopher was six, the poems of Milne were always on hand to reassure him that other children were just as puzzled and naughty and silly as he was, and that grown-ups could be even sillier. When he turned sixty, he decided it was high time there was an equally reassuring volume for those of his generation who were not only more confused than ever, but were losing their teeth, their hair and, all too often, their car keys. What he did twenty years ago was to take some of Milne's best-loved poems from Now We Are Six for an older audience, with results that are often hilarious, sometimes rueful and always thought-provoking. Some verses are about realising one is not as young as one once thought, and not feeling quite as chipper as one once did; while others address some of the more disconcerting problems of modern life such as mobile telephones on trains, unsocial behaviour, traffic jams and the internet.
