Chasing the Game: Sporting Trails from Jo'Burg to Jamaica

by Peter Davies

Sport has been a passport to the planet for Peter Davies, as a journalist covering such major events as the cricket and rugby World Cups, the FA and European Cups, the American football Super Bowl and the now legendary Tyson - Holyfield rematch.When the update on the star flyhalf's knee niggle is the highlight of a sports writer's day on tour, the lure of the world beyond the hotel becomes irresistible. Peter Davies's wanderlust has taken him to every continent, and in Chasing the Game he recounts some of his most memorable experiences. Surviving a crash landing at Buenos Aires, buying voodoo fetishes in Togo and holding hands with New Agers in the Arizona desert, to name a few.As well as encounters with stars such as Lucas Radebe, Francois Pienaar and James Small (with whom he shares an inconvenient fear of flying), on his travels he has sought out South Africa's future champions as far afield as Lord's and as close to home as Soweto.Chasing the Game is an irreverent and highly entertaining look at the oddball aspect of life on and off sport's interstates, ringroads and dirt tracks.

232 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1997

About the author

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Peter Davies was formerly a news journalist and the editor of SA Sports Illustrated. He is currently a presenter on South Africa's paychannel MNET.