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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
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
No eureka moment, Mark Derby
The Making of New Zealanders Ron Palenski Auckland University Press, $45.00, ISBN 9781869407261 In these febrile times a passing mention of New Zealand in US media can provoke a front-page response from our own. So it’s instructive to discover that…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 102, Mark Derby, Ron Palenski, Winter 2013
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
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
Traversing cultural contrasts, David Grant
Winters of Revenge: The Bitter Rivalry Between the All Blacks and the Springboks Spiro Zavos Viking, $29.95, ISBN 0 670 87574 0 Lochore: An Authorised Biography As told to Alex Veysey, Gary Caffell, Ron Palenski Hodder Moa Beckett, HB$44.95, ISBN…
Tagged with: Alex Veysey, Bob Howitt, Brian Lochore, David Grant, Frank Bunce, Gary Caffell, Hodder Moa Beckett, Issue 30, Ron Palenski, Rugby, Spiro Zavos, Viking, Walter Little, Winter 1997
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
The richness of New Zealand sports writing, Ron Palenski
Posted in Comment, Non-fiction, Sport