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Running With Sherman - The Donkey who Survived Against all Odds and Raced Like a Champion by Christopher McDougall
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sport
Bestselling author of Born to Run rehabilitates a donkey to winning success. When barefoot running guru Christopher McDougall takes in a neglected donkey, his aim is to get Sherman back to reasonable health. But Sherman is ill-tempered, obstinate and uncooperative - and it's clear his poor treatment ha ...Show more
The Golden Era: The Extraordinary Two Decades When the Australians Ruled the Tennis World by Rod Laver; Larry Writer (As told to)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Sport
Rod Laver's fascinating account of the extraordinary two decades when Australia ruled the tennis world. From the 1950s to the 1970s, Australia was the world's tennis superpower, producing players who dominated amateur grand slam tournaments, the Davis Cup and the professional circuit,and none was more ...Show more
Beneath the Surface by Libby Trickett
$32.99 AUD
Category: Sport | Reading Level: 3 Biography
The brave and inspiring memoir of one of Australian Swimming's Golden Girls, whose extraordinary achievements masked her private battles with anxiety and depression.
Golden Boy: Kim Hughes and the Bad Old Days of Australian Cricket by Christian Ryan
$24.99 AUD
Category: Sport
Shedding new light on the 'club' of Lillee, Marsh and the Chappells, Golden Boy examines the most tumultuous era of Australian cricket through the story of the flawed genius Kim Hughes.
Boxing - A Cultural History by Kasia Boddy
$32.99 AUD
Category: Sport
Throughout history, potters, sculptors, painters, poets, novelists, cartoonists, song-writers, photographers, and filmmakers have recorded and tried to make sense of boxing. From Daniel Mendoza to Mike Tyson, boxers have embodied and enacted our anxieties about race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. In ...Show more
Johnathan Thurston: The Autobiography by Johnathan Thurston
$35.00 AUD
Category: Sport
The autobiography of the league legend. Johnathan Thurston is widely regarded as rugby league's greatest player. This autobiography will follow Thurston's journey from a Brisbane kid who was written off as too skinny, too slow and too wild to play professionally, to his debut with the Canterbury Bulldog ...Show more
Need for the Bike by Paul Fournel; Alan Stoekl (Translator); Claire Read (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Sport
"I ride to rest and to tire myself out; I ride to do myself good and to do myself harm" ... one of the many cycling paradoxes explored in this unique and delightful book. "I've never got over this miracle" Starting with the childhood joy of learning to ride a bike, Need for the Bike goes on to relate th ...Show more
Sporting Chance by Titus O'Reily
$22.99 AUD
Category: Sport
In sport, the term 'good bloke' doesn't mean what it says. Like 'fun run', it often actually means exactly the opposite. Titus O'Reily, the sports historian Australia neither needs nor deserves, examines why our nation's sportspeople are so readily forgiven for doing terrible things. With ridiculous t ...Show more
Church of the Open Sky by Nat Young
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sport | Reading Level: 3 Biography
What makes for a surfing life? With a blaze of groundbreaking performances and a swag of titles claimed from all over the world to his name, Australian world champion surfer Nat Young might know. His seventieth birthday inspired some reflection on exactly that, and on the waves and characters that have ...Show more
On the Chin: A Boxing Education by Alex McClintock
$32.99 AUD
Category: Sport | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
The first thing that impressed me about Fritzy was his collection of boxing maxims, which he deployed continuously and without regard to their relevance: 'Ya don't play boxing', 'Don't hook with a hooker', 'Kill the body and the head'll die', 'Move ya head or the other guy'll move it for ya.' Fritzy was ...Show more
Beyond a Boundary by Cyril Lionel Robert James
$22.99 AUD
Category: Sport
'To say "the best cricket book ever written" is piffingly inadequate praise' Guardian 'Great claims have been made for [Beyond a Boundary] since its first appearance in 1963: that it is the greatest sports book ever written; that it brings the outsider a privileged insight into West Indian culture; tha ...Show more
Carn: The Game, and the Country That Plays It by Andrew Mueller
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sport
There have been histories of Australian football before. There has not been one like Carn. Carn tells the story of the Victorian Football League and its successor, the Australian Football League, from 1897 to the present day, by focusing on 50 of the thousands of games which have been played down the d ...Show more