Ancient Greek Athletics by Stephen G. Miller
$22.50 NZD
Category: World History
A comprehensive survey of sports in ancient Greece, available just in time for the Summer Olympics in AthensThe earliest Olympic games began more than twenty-five-hundred years ago. What were they like, how were they organized, who participated? Were ancient sports a means of preparing youth for warfare ...Show more
Annals of the Teignbridge Cricket Club (Unpublished, Poor) by Compiled by G. Wareing Ormerod
$425.00 NZD
Category: Sports & Athletics
Appeal of the Championship - Sussex in the Summer of 1981 by John Barclay; Susanna Kendall (Illustrator)
$13.50 NZD
Category: Sports & Athletics
As If Running on Air - The Diaries and Journals of Jack Lovelock by Jack Lovelock; David Colquhoun
$65.00 NZD
Category: Sports & Athletics | Reading Level: very good
In the 1930s the New Zealander Jack Lovelock was one of the world's best-known athletes. In 1933 he broke the world record for the mile. At the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games he won a gold medal and broke the world record for the 1500 metres. When he retired, a leading sports writer lamented the end of a gol ...Show more
Ascent - The Climbing Experience in Word and Image by Allen Steck (Editor); Steve Roper (Editor); Dave Harris (Editor); Joe Simpson
$15.00 NZD
Category: Sports & Athletics | Series: Mountaineers Bks.
Now published by the American Alpine Club, Ascent is the first new edition of this renowned journal in 15 years. As in previous editions, Ascent contains the full spectrum of climbing, writing, photography and art. Contributions to this new edition range from adventure narratives to fiction, to humour b ...Show more
Athletics in Canterbury, the Past : History, Innovation and Controversy by John Clark
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Sports & Athletics
Auckland, 100 Years of Rugby League 1909-2009 by John Coffey
$42.50 NZD
Category: Auckland
A crowd of 8,000 curious spectators came to see the first rugby league game played in Auckland at Victoria Park, 1908. Since then, league has become a major sport in New Zealand, and Auckland has been at the core of New Zealand's teams against the strongest international opposition. This book tells of t ...Show more
Australian Golf - The Game and the Players by Jack Pollard
$15.00 NZD
Category: Sports & Athletics
Balance of Power by Stephen Fleming
$13.50 NZD
Category: Sports & Athletics
Stephen Fleming has come a long way since he was embroiled in the marijuana scandal which rocked New Zealand cricket back in the mid-90s. Maturity as both a player and as skipper has brought rich rewards for New Zealand's longest-serving, and most successful, test match captain. A stint with Middlesex i ...Show more