Rafael Sabatini enjoyed many sports and pastimes, of which fishing was the favourite - to the extent that he said it was his "business" and writing was only an "amusement".
Indoors, he played card games, games of chance, and chess as well as billiards. He fenced, too. Outdoors, he enjoyed boating on a river (mostly in a canoe) when he was young, later on it was mainly tennis; in winter it was skiing and skating that filled his holidays.
There are no photographs of Rafael playing tennis or fencing, nor of him playing cards. But other photographs, besides those readily found online, are these:
Indoors, he played card games, games of chance, and chess as well as billiards. He fenced, too. Outdoors, he enjoyed boating on a river (mostly in a canoe) when he was young, later on it was mainly tennis; in winter it was skiing and skating that filled his holidays.
There are no photographs of Rafael playing tennis or fencing, nor of him playing cards. But other photographs, besides those readily found online, are these:
Rafael and Ruth Sabatini in a canoe on the Thames, soon after their marriage
Rafael fishing at Cockermouth
Rafael and Ruth skating
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2 comments:
Wonderful pix Ruth, you are a great researcher! Thanks for sharing! Jason
My pleasure. But most of the photographs are courtesy of Dollie's generosity in giving me such negatives and prints as Jesse himself obtained through the generosity of Anthony Dixon-Green, Ruth Dixon Sabatini's nephew. You will have seen all that in READING RAFAEL. Rafael Sabatini was not only generous himself, it appears that he has been, and continues to be, the cause of generosity in others! That is a very fine legacy, and rare.
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