440 pages, indexed, appendix, bibliography, illustrated. The pages are tanned and there is an ownership signature on the title page, else clean, unmarked and solid, though obviously second hand. Also titled "The Big Ship : Warwick Armstrong and the Cricketers of His Time" "A biography of Warwick Armstrong, the spiritual forefather of Steve Waugh and his present-day all-conquering Australians, and a literally giant figure in the history of modern cricket."