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Golden Daze (Australian Surfing Then to Now) by Sean Doherty
$45.00 AUD
Category: Sport
Australia's best surf writer brings to life the wild, bold, brave story of Australian surfing from the 60s to the present through the stories of Surfing Australia's Hall of Fame surfers and contemporary surfing legends. Golden Daze is a compelling memoir of Australian surfing through a year in the life ...Show more
She Surf by gestalten (Editor); Lauren L. Hill (Editor)
$82.50 AUD
Category: Sport
Join the celebration of the diverse, vibrant, and engaged community of women riding and making waves around the globe. While surfing is usually seen as a male domain, women have long been nurturing their own water stories and claiming their rightful place in the world of this sport. She Surf hails the f ...Show more
Eleven Bats: A Story of Combat, Cricket and the SAS by Anthony 'Harry' Moffitt
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sport
Anthony 'Harry' Moffitt spent more than twenty years in the SAS. His decades of service and his multiple tours in East Timor, Iraq and Afghanistan made him one of the regiment's most experienced and recognised figures. Alongside the SAS, Harry's other lifetime love is cricket. An improvised game of c ...Show more
Golf Science by Mark F. Smith
$27.99 AUD
Category: Sport
Golf is perhaps the most complicated simple game ever invented. Watching the professionals gives you only a glimpse of the complexity of what is happening, with each shot involving biomechanics, aerodynamics, ballistics, materials science, probability, even meteorology. Golf Science takes a timely new l ...Show more
The Magic of Spin: Australia's Greatest Spin Bowlers by Ashley Mallett
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sport | Reading Level: 6 Sport
Over the years Australia has produced some of the greatest spin bowlers the world has seen. In The Magic of Spinwe meet more than forty masters of the art. They include Bill O'Reilly, who Sir Donald Bradman claimed to have been the greatest bowler of his experience; Clarrie Grimmett, arguably the 'fathe ...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
1989: the Great Grand Final by Tony Wilson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Sport
The 1989 Grand Final between Hawthorn and Geelong is considered one of the greatest of all. Hawthorn, seeking to go back-to-back for the first time was against a Geelong team that had not been in a Grand Final since 1967. The match had everything: unbridled violence, high scoring, Gary Ablett's nine goa ...Show more
The Death of Fitzroy Football Club: The Story of Fitzroy's Demise in the Words of the Men and Women Who Lost Their Club by Russel Holmesby
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sport
The Death of Fitzroy Football Club is an oral history, outlining the reasons why Fitzroy FC, one of the founding clubs of the VFL in 1896, lost its way and eventually was merged with the Brisbane Bears. The book covers the spread of years from the seventies, through a period when the club was strong on ...Show more
Formula One: The Champions: 70 Years of Legendary F1 Drivers by Maurice Hamilton; Bernard Cahier (By (photographer)); Paul-Henri Cahier (By (photographer))
$59.99 AUD
Category: Sport
Since the Grand Prix's start in 1950 just 33 men have achieved the accolade of F1 World Champion. For the first time, legendary F1 commentator Maurice Hamilton and award-winning photographers Bernard and Paul-Henri Cahier bring the heroes of this iconic sport together, in a stunning photographic portray ...Show more
Icons of Footy by Kevin Sheedy
$32.99 AUD
Category: Sport
Footy legend Kevin Sheedy crosses team alliances to profile the 21 most iconic Aussie Rules players and coaches of his lifetime. He also sits down for interviews with nine icons he has long admired and who don’t normally (for various reasons) have their stories told. Packed full of wisdom and wit, insig ...Show more
Cars - Accelerating the Modern World by Brendan Cormier (Editor); Elizabeth Bisley (Editor)
$60.00 AUD
Category: Sport
Imagine a world without cars From the Ford Model T to the VW Beetle to the GM Firebird, this design history zooms in on the impact of cars--past, present, and future The car: it has profoundly reshaped the world we live in. It has altered the production and purchasing of consumer goods; the shape of our ...Show more
World Racecourses: History, Images and Statistics for 100 Favorite Horse Racing Venues by Cornelius Lysaght
$55.00 AUD
Category: Sport
100 major horse racing venues with detail of each one's history and heritage from BBC journalist, Cornelius Lysaght. Text is accompanied by contemporary photography and detailed diagrams created by Collins, the world-leading publisher of maps and atlases, making it an essential purchase or gift for any ...Show more
