Rugby Football in Canterbury 1929-1954 by J. K. Moloney
$85.00 NZD
Category: NZ Sports & Athletics
Secondhand. History of Rugby Football in Canterbury up to 1954. Published by the Canterbury Rugby Football Union to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the union.
Rugby From The Front; An Autobiography by Peter Wheeler
$15.00 NZD
Category: NZ Sports & Athletics
Rugby League In New Zealand: A People's History by Ryan Bodman
$59.99 NZD
Category: NZ Sports & Athletics | Reading Level: near fine
This is the story of a sport told through its communities. It is compelling – richly illustrated and full of vivid accounts of players, their lives, their triumphs and their contests on the field. Drawing on oral history interviews and a wide range of archival sources, Ryan Bodman locates rugby league ...Show more
Runners in Black: The Glory Years, and Later by Christopher P. Tobin
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Sports & Athletics
In February 1954, an unlikely looking runner with a withered left arm shot into world reckoning as a miler. His name was Murray Halberg. Coached by Arthur Lydiard, an Auckland shoe factory foreman, Halberg went on to become an Olympic champion and world record-holder, so too did another athlete Lydiar ...Show more
Russell Coutts: Course to Victory by Russell Coutts; Paul Larsen
$16.50 NZD
Category: NZ Sports & Athletics | Reading Level: good
Coutts chronicles Team New Zealand's decade-long struggle to win the sport's oldest trophy, The Americas Cup.
Southern Sting: The Team That Inspired a Region by Ian Dougherty
$17.50 NZD
Category: NZ Sports & Athletics
It was the team deemed least likely to succeed in the glitzy new netball franchise competition launched in 1998, but it succeeded way beyond anyone's expectations. In the process, the Southern Sting captured the hearts and lifted the spirits of a region that had suffered decades of having the stuffing k ...Show more
Sport and the New Zealanders: A History by Ryan Greg
$65.00 NZD
Category: NZ Sports & Athletics | Reading Level: near fine
Secondhand. "`. . . those two mighty products of the land, the Canterbury lamb and the All Blacks, have made New Zealand what she is in spite of politicians¿ claims to the contrary¿, wrote Dick Brittenden in 1954. `For many in New Zealand, prowess at sport replaces the social graces; in the pubs, durin ...Show more
St Bathans And Cambrian: 125 Years Of Sport And Entertainment by Heather Wilson, Judy Mason
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Sports & Athletics
125 years of history concerning sport and entertainment in the Central Otago region from 1864-1989