Grit and Gold: Tales From a Sporting Nation by National Library of Australia
$19.99 AUD
Category: Sport
Sport is a story telling machine. When we watch a game, race or competition, there are all the makings of a great tale. There are heroes and villains. There are challenges to overcome. There is a sense of jeopardy and risk. There is triumph and failure, comedy and tragedy. All these elements unfold with ...Show more
Harley-Davidson: Meet the Legend by PASCAL SZYMEZAK
$75.00 AUD
Category: Sport
Even for those who know nothing about the topic, the name Harley-Davidson refers not only to a motorcycle but to an exceptional machine and a specific way of life. This book features the most iconic models, from the origin of the brand to present day, tracing the evolution of Harley-Davidson motorcycles ...Show more
Haunts Of The Black Masseur The Swimmer As Hero by Charles Sprawson
$24.95 AUD
Category: Sport
As summer sends swimmers to the beach, here is a fascinating scrapbook about swimming, loaded with lore and suffused with the mystery of water.The New York Times Book Review. An elegant and enchanting celebration of the art of swimming in all its incarnations as sport, ritual, and consuming obsession d ...Show more
Head On: An All Black's memoir of rugby, dementia, and the hidden cost of success by Carl Hayman
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sport
An All Black's memoir of rugby, dementia, and the hidden cost of success. Carl Hayman, All Black #1000, once the most highly prized player in world rugby and a giant of the game in every sense - someone who was always respected, even feared. But at the end of seventeen years as a professional rugby pla ...Show more
Heart and Soul by Paul Gallen
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sport
Paul Gallen's career in rugby league is extraordinary. For his club, his state and his country he's given everything he's got, and then some. He's captained his club, The Cronulla Sharks, to their first-ever premiership, he's led the NSW Blues to a drought-breaking series win in 2014, and he's played mo ...Show more
Heartland: How Rugby League Explains Queensland by Joe Gorman
$32.95 AUD
Category: Sport
For more than 40 years, rugby league has embodied all the hopes and dreams, contradictions and tensions of life in the Sunshine State. The game speaks to Queenslanders' sense of being the underdog and the outsider - a powerful undercurrent that sweeps through politics, business, the arts, and sport. The ...Show more
Hell for Leather: The World of a Sporting Journalist by Phil Wilkins
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sport
From the 1960s until the turn of the century, Phil Wilkins was chief cricket writer in turn for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Sun-Herald, then The Australian and The Sun newspapers.In this autobiography, he remembers great players watched and interviewed, historic events, reviving memories of cricke ...Show more
Heroes: Women in Snowboarding by JEROME TANON
$85.00 AUD
Category: Sport | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Heroes: Women in Snowboarding is the product of two years' work by photographer Jérôme Tanon, following some of the most dedicated female snowboarders around the world. It is a declaration of love, highlighting the culture, passion and dedication of female snowboarders. Though women's snowboarding has d ...Show more
Heroes of Footy by Kevin Sheedy
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sport
Introducing 30 of the rule-breaking, change-making, boundary-pushing and risk-taking men and women who have shaped footy. Celebrate the players hand-picked by the legendary Kevin Sheedy as some of the greatest trailblazers the game has ever seen. Featuring stats, biographical information and brillia ...Show more
Hillyard: The Man, His Boats, and Their Sailors by NICHOLAS GRAY
$49.99 AUD
Category: Sport
David Hillyard, founder of the famous firm of boatbuilders in Littlehampton, was born in the late nineteenth century, at the height of the Big Boat era. His family were stalwarts of Rowhedge in Essex, where the aristocratic owners of the enormous cutters dicing in the Solent sent their skippers to pick ...Show more
History of the Women's FA Cup Final by CHRIS SLEGG
$39.99 AUD
Category: Sport
Uncovering the hidden history of the greatest prize in the English game. Most football fans know about the Matthews Cup final of '53, Sunderland and Stokoe in '73, Southampton shocking Manchester United in '76, West Ham toppling Arsenal in '80 and Wigan upsetting the odds to see off Manchester City in 2 ...Show more
Hitting Against the Spin: How Cricket Really Works by Nathan Leamon, Ben Jones
$32.99 AUD
Category: Sport
In an era of big-data, how are leaders in sport, business, politics and education supposed to use the power of this new tool productively? Hitting Against the Spin is an object lesson in how to use data and analytics to elucidate the science and structure of cricket. Easy to read and packed with illustr ...Show more