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Becoming heroic, Garth Baker
The Open Side Richie McCaw (with Greg McGee) Hodder Moa, $50.00, ISBN 9781869712761 Valerie: The Autobiography Valerie Adams (with Phil Gifford) Hodder Moa, $50.00, ISBN 9781869712624 Let’s start with the numbers, all big. The initial 60,000 print run of Richie…
Tagged with: Autumn 2013, Garth Baker, Greg McGee, Hodder Moa, Issue 101, Phil Gifford, Richie McCaw, Valerie Adams
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
How the ball will bounce, Garth Baker
How to Watch the Rugby World Cup 2011 Spiro Zavos Awa Press, $30.00, ISBN 9781877551093 How timely – a book to help desperate All Black fans get through that most harrowing of experiences, the Rugby World Cup. Despite being…
Tagged with: Awa Press, Garth Baker, Issue 95, Spiro Zavos, Spring 2011
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Playing the game, Garth Baker
The Legend of Beau Baxter Ivan Dunn HarperCollins, $36.99, ISBN 9781869508234 A Perfect Gentleman: The Sir Wilson Whineray Story Bob Howitt HarperCollins, $49.99, ISBN 9781869508173 All Blacks Don’t Cry: A Story of Hope John Kirwan Penguin Books,…
Tagged with: Autumn 2011, Beau Baxter, Bob Howitt, Garth Baker, HarperCollins, Issue 93, Ivan Dunn, John Kirwan, Penguin Books, Sir Wilson Whineray
Posted in Autobiography, Biography, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Autobiography, Biography, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Big schtick, Garth Baker
Antipodes Mark Price Longacre Press, $34.99, ISBN 9781877460364 Twisting Throttle America Mike Hyde HarperCollins, $39.99, ISBN 9781869507473 Sleeping with the Dead Marko Cunningham Random House, $37.99, ISBN 9781869792701 These books cover three different kinds of travel experience – a focus…
Tagged with: Garth Baker, HarperCollins, Issue 90, Longacre Press, Mark Price, Marko Cunningham, Mike Hyde, Random House, Winter 2010
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Killing what we love, Garth Baker
Pohutukawa and Rata: New Zealand’s Iron-hearted Trees Philip Simpson Te Papa Press with the Project Crimson Trust, $99.99 (hb), $59.99 (pb), ISBN 1877385131/0909010994 Philip Simpson’s Pohutukawa and Rata follows his earlier homage to cabbage trees. He wrote his popular Dancing…
Tagged with: Garth Baker, Issue 75, Philip Simpson, Project Crimson Trust, Spring 2006, Te Papa Press
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Take me there now, Garth Baker
A Tramper’s Journey Mark Pickering Craig Potton Publishing, $29.99, ISBN 1877333174 Ride: The Story of Cycling in New Zealand The Kennett Brothers The Kennett Brothers, $39.95, ISBN 095834907X Just this week, someone I know who cannot bear to be more…
Tagged with: Craig Potton Publishing, Garth Baker, Issue 70, Mark Pickering, The Kennett Brothers, Winter 2005
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
All credit to the team, Garth Baker
Century in Black: 100 Years of All Black Test Rugby Ron Palenski Hodder Moa Beckett, $69.99, ISBN 1869589378 Heritage: Golden Years of All Black Rugby Paul Verdon Hill-Verdon Publishing, $39.95, ISBN 0958238707 All Black Magic; 100 years of New Zealand…
Tagged with: Bob Howitt, Diane Haworth, Garth Baker, HarperSports, Hill-Verdon Publishing, Hodder Moa Beckett, Issue 62, John Matheson, Lindsay Knight, Paul Thomas, Paul Verdon, Penguin Books, Ron Palenski, Winter 2003
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
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