{"product_id":"9780349148656","title":"The Man Who Walked Out of the Sun : A Lifetime of Summers with Garry Sobers","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Duncan Hamilton\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eBiography: sport\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 2 July 2026 by Little, Brown Book Group (Abacus) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardback | 352 pages, 16 page plate section\u003cbr\u003e163 x 241 x 32 | 586g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA biography of Garry Sobers, who personified the greatest of West Indian cricket'Wonderful...moving...a classic of sports writing' Sunday Times'Excellent' Daily Mail'A joy to read... a glorious appraisal of a sporting great' The CricketerAt the end of the 1960s, Garry Sobers became the highest profile beneficiary of English cricket's decision to rid itself of the qualification rule about hiring overseas glamour.  He picked Nottinghamshire, a side mediocre for so long that it was stranded on the margins of the Championship. In that first memorable summer Sobers so successfully sparked the revival of a moribund club that it acquired the sobriquet 'Sobers-shire'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuncan Hamilton fell in love with cricket because he first fell in love with Sobers. He counts himself as 'blessed' to have lived only a shilling bus ride from Trent Bridge during the years Sobers played there. The Man Who Walked Out of the Sun is both Hamilton's remembrance of those times and a study of Sobers' career, tracking the rise and dominance of the world's first 'jet age' cricketer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe barest of Sobers' statistics prove that every superlative ever used about his brilliance is justified, but Hamilton considers them less important than the sense of wonder he inspired, the emotion he stirred, the elan with which he played, the abundant beauty in almost everything he did.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSir Garfield Sobers died, aged 89, in July 2026.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cobham Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56867999318402,"sku":"9780349148656","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0569\/4567\/2367\/files\/9780349148656.jpg?v=1787637488","url":"https:\/\/www.cobhambooks.com\/products\/9780349148656","provider":"Cobham Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}