Stories From The Saddle : the Trials and Triumphs of Australia's Greatest Equestrian Riders by MILES SAMANTHA
$35.00 AUD
Category: Other Sports
Ever since our first equestrian team set off to compete in the 1956 Olympics, Australia has rarely been out of Olympic medal placings. Yet equestrian is unlike any other sport in that success is in large part determined by an unpredictable element - the horse.
Skateboarding - Extreme by Ben Powell
$17.95 AUD
Category: Other Sports | Series: Extreme Sports S.
Ideal for National Curriculum KS2, this text in the EXTREME SPORTS series provides an introduction to skateboarding, with tips on techniques and equipment, and a look at some of the more extreme tricks and stunts. Illustrated with colour photographs. First published in hardback in October 1999.
Unstoppable: My Life So Far by Maria Sharapova
$22.99 AUD
Category: Other Sports
To understand my determination, you need to know who I am, where I come from, what happened. You need to know about me and my father and the flight from Russia in the dead of night when I was six. You need to know the crazy story. In other words, you need to know everything . . . 'In the middle of the n ...Show more
Legends: The Best Players, Games, and Teams in Basketball by Howard Bryant
$29.99 AUD
Category: Other Sports
From Magic Johnson to Michael Jordan to LeBron James to Steph Curry, ESPN's Howard Bryant presents the best from the hardwood--a collection of NBA champions and superstars for young sports fans! Fast-paced, adrenaline-filled, and brimming with out-of-this-world athleticism, basketball has won the hearts ...Show more
Boxing - A Cultural History by Kasia Boddy
$32.99 AUD
Category: Other Sports
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
Life As I Know It by Michelle Payne, John Harms
$24.99 AUD
Category: Other Sports
In Life As I Know It, Michelle Payne tells her deeply moving story. It will lift your spirits, stir your heart and give you courage. Michelle was put on a horse aged four. At five years old her dream was to win the Melbourne Cup. At thirty she rode into history as the first female jockey to win the Cup. ...Show more
The Art of Cycling by Cadel Evans
$49.99 AUD
Category: Other Sports
The autobiography of a cycling legend. The much-anticipated autobiography of the greatest Australian cyclist of all time. Famous in the sport for his meticulous preparation and an athlete who prided himself on his ability to leave it all on the road, Evans writes about the triumphs, the frustrations, th ...Show more
A Sporting Chance: Australian Sporting Scandals and the Path to Redemption by Titus O'Reily
$22.99 AUD
Category: Other Sports
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 tales ...Show more