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Seeing how they run, Geoff Watson
When Running Made History Roger Robinson Canterbury University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780815611004 New Zealanders have a longstanding connection with running. Long-distance running was one of the early activities of Māori and, from at least as early as the 1880s, New…
Tagged with: Canterbury University Press, Geoff Watson, Issue 127, Roger Robinson, Spring 2019
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology, Sport
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology, Sport
The games we play, Owen Mann
Sport and the New Zealanders: A History Greg Ryan and Geoff Watson Auckland University Press, $65.00, ISBN 9781869408831 On Christmas Day last year, many people around the country would have ripped open a well-wrapped gift to discover a sportsperson’s biography…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2019, Geoff Watson, Greg Ryan, Issue 125
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology, Sport
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology, Sport
Secrets of the All Blacks not all that secret, Spiro Zavos
The Jersey: The Secrets Behind the World’s Most Successful Team Peter Bills Pan Macmillan, $38.00, ISBN 9781509856688 Murdoch: The All Black Who Never Returned Ron Palenski Upstart Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781988516127 The cultural historian E H McCormick once noted that…
Tagged with: Issue 124, Pan Macmillan, Peter Bills, Ron Palenski, Spiro Zavos, Summer 2018, Upstart Press
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Runs in the memory, Harry Ricketts
Dawn of the Golden Weather: When Kiwi Cricketers Conquered the World John Mehaffey Steele Roberts, $35.00, ISBN 9780947493653 Cricket addicts, like most sports addicts, tend to look back to a golden age. This often coincides with their own first intense…
Fifty years on, Spiro Zavos
The Team that Changed Rugby Forever: The 1967 All Blacks Alex McKay New Holland Publishers, $35.00, ISBN 9781869664725 On the afternoon of the first test between New Zealand and the British and Irish Lions, the 1967 All Blacks held…
Tagged with: Alex McKay, Issue 120, New Holland Publishers, Spiro Zavos, Summer 2017
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
War games, Ron Palenski
War Blacks: The Extraordinary Story of New Zealand’s World War 1 All Blacks Matt Elliott HarperCollins, $45.00, ISBN 9781775540366 Tom Ellison has a lot to answer for. One of the early All Blacks of erudition and original thought, he wrote…
Tagged with: Autumn 2017, HarperCollins, Issue 117, Matt Elliott, Ron Palenski
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Olympian heights, John Horrocks
Striking Gold: New Zealand Hockey’s Remarkable Victory at the 1976 Olympics Suzanne McFadden Mary Egan Publishing, $40.00 ISBN 9780473343729 Striking Gold is the story of one of the great moments in New Zealand’s sporting history. The 1976 Olympics are remembered…
Tagged with: Issue 115, John Horrocks, Mary Egan Publishing, Spring 2016, Suzanne McFadden
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
From the sidelines, Michele A’Court
Dan Carter: My Story Dan Carter with Duncan Greive Upstart Press, $50.00 ISBN 9781927262382 Here’s a crazy idea – get someone who doesn’t give a toss about rugby to review the autobiography of the world’s greatest rugby union fly-half. Madness.…
Tagged with: Dan Carter, Duncan Greive, Issue 114, Michele A’Court, Upstart Press, Winter 2016
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
The bloody World Cup, John Saker
Inside The Cup: Secrets Behind Our All Black Campaigns Phil Gifford Penguin Books, $40.00 ISBN 9780143573463 The next, as yet unwritten, chapter of this book has just been played out with the All Blacks’ ruthless, successful march through this year’s…
Tagged with: Issue 112, John Saker, Penguin Books, Phil Gifford, Summer 2015
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
In the pain, the pleasure, Mark Reason
The Invisible Mile David Coventry Victoria University Press, $30.00 ISBN 9781776560431 David Coventry had a very good idea, perhaps a brilliant idea, of turning the 1928 Tour de France into an odyssey. It is a journey through spiritual and physical…
Tagged with: David Coventry, Issue 112, Mark Reason, Summer 2015, Victoria University Press
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sport