The man who has no imagination Stands on earth He has no wings He cannot fly' MUHAMMAD ALI Just off highway 61 in northern Pennsylvania, up the dirt drive of a wooden hill lay a place called Fighters Heaven. This was once the training camp of the 'greatest of all time'. From early '73 through the summer of '74 Victor Bockris visited Muhammad Ali, while Ali was preparing for his epic battle in Zaire to regain the world heavyweight crown from the fearsome George Foreman. Bockris, who was later to write about people like ...
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The man who has no imagination Stands on earth He has no wings He cannot fly' MUHAMMAD ALI Just off highway 61 in northern Pennsylvania, up the dirt drive of a wooden hill lay a place called Fighters Heaven. This was once the training camp of the 'greatest of all time'. From early '73 through the summer of '74 Victor Bockris visited Muhammad Ali, while Ali was preparing for his epic battle in Zaire to regain the world heavyweight crown from the fearsome George Foreman. Bockris, who was later to write about people like William Burroughs, Andy Warhol and Lou Reed was less interested in his subjects boxing career and ambitions than in his extraordinary gifts as a poet, preacher and performer. As Muhammad Ali said himself of this book, 'These are some of the things I dont reveal to the public too much'. 'Ali is the one athlete of these times who will stir imaginations a century from now - and this record of a period in his camp will make that eminently understandable. A fascinating document. 'George Plimpton.
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Reprint. Paperback. 8vo. pp.127. ISBN: 081541062X. From the library of Felix Dennis, English publisher, poet, spoken-word performer and philanthropist. His book-plate of an owl with wings as an open book. Signed presentation from the author, Victor Bokris; also signed by the photographer, Anton Perich. Loosely inserted a typed letter from the publisher, Cooper Square Press, introducing the book: a reprint of the 1998 edition, with a new Preface by the author. Copiously illustrated with black and white photographs throughout. 'Fighter's Heaven' refers to Ali's private training camp where the material for the book was sourced between 1972 and 1974, while Ali was preparing for the World heavyweight Championship against George Foreman, which became the famous the 'Rumble in the Jungle. ' Fine.
A very informative book that gives you a slice of the life of Muhammad Ali in the 1970's. He comes across in all of his shades (before the mythmakers buffed out his rough edges); funny, charismatic, profane, iconoclastic, infuriating, smart, naive, and charming. Sometimes all at once!
