Batting on the Bosphorus: A Liquor-Fueled Cricket Tour Through Eastern Europe (Paperback)

from adastria

As a beginner to the game of cricket, this book was a light-hearted introduction to the non-English side of the game. It was funny and without much substance, but an easy beach book, which is how I used it. There were some bizarre anachronisms - like, for instance, reference to the Florida Flames...

from Amy_blue82

I'm not a cricket fan but find Eastern Europe fascinating and that is what attracted me to the book. Bell's book is full of amusing stories of the characters he met, the places he visited and the situations he got into during his Skoda powered cricket tour. His writing brings the people and place...

from iftyzaidi

This is an amusing and often outrageous account of Angus Bell's travels across Eastern Europe in a quest to play cricket in the unlikeliest of locales. His ultimate goals: to score a century against an international side (he's counting on his last match against Poland after discovering everyone, ...

from Teazle

If you are interested in cricket then you may enjoy this book, but I'm afraid I'm probably not the right person to be reviewing this, as I know, and care, little about the game. There are a few fairly interesting anecdotes and some humourous incidents while this young man travels round Eastern Eu...

from SkyRider

I was really excited to receive a copy of this book under the Early Reviewers programme. After all, it was about cricket (definitely a plus) and a humorous travel memoir (and I really enjoy Bill Bryson and Tim Moore's similar books). The basic premise of the book is that a message from a psychic ...