Barefoot Runner: The Life of Marathon Champion Abebe Bikila

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Serpent's Tail, 2008 - 320 páginas
Abebe Bikila was the first African to win an Olympic gold medal. He won the marathon running barefoot in Rome in 1960 and won again wearing shoes in Tokyo four years later. This book tells his story. It is a story entwined with the decline and fall of Ethiopia's last emperor.

Sobre el autor (2008)

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. He now lives in Paris.

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TítuloBarefoot Runner: The Life of Marathon Champion Abebe Bikila
AutorPaul Rambali
Ediciónreimpresa
EditorSerpent's Tail, 2008
ISBN1846686539, 9781846686535
N.º de páginas320 páginas
  
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