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The Fighting Fisherman
Raymond Fraser
其他書名
The Life of Yvon Durelle
出版Formac Publishing Company, 2005-06-06
主題Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / GeneralBiography & Autobiography / SportsHistory / Canada / GeneralSports & Recreation / BoxingSports & Recreation / Fishing
ISBN08878065629780887806568
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ELTHDgAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Yvon Durelle fought from the tiny Acadian hamlet of Baie Ste. Anne to within a heartbeat of being light-heavyweight boxing champion of the world.
Durelle emerges in this book as a man of contradictions. His lifelong nickname was "Doux"--gentle--but he mastered a spectacularly brutal profession. Accounts of his fighting career reveal a man of incredible toughness and audacity: in 1952 he fought Olympic gold medalist Floyd Patterson with a broken hand. His life outside the ring was equally audacious: in 1977 he was charged with shooting and killing a man outside a Miramichi drinking club. This biography follows Durelle's painful progress through both worlds.
The Fighting Fisherman is a remarkably frank portrait of a complex man and a punishing sport.
This edition replaces the Goodread edition of this title, ISBN 0-8878-0114-5.