The Sports Book by .
$39.99 AUD
Category: Other Sports
Fascinating facts, stats and other details of over 200 sports. This is the ultimate guide to sports and the perfect reference for the Tokyo Olympics in 2020 - an amazing year for sport. Discover everything you need to know about more than 200 sports, including all of the Olympic and Paralympic events fe ...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
Grit and Gold: Tales From a Sporting Nation by National Library of Australia
$19.99 AUD
Category: Other Sports
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
The Rise of the Ultra Runners - A Journey to the Edge of Human Endurance by Adharanand Finn
$22.99 AUD
Category: Other Sports
An electrifying look inside the wild world of extreme distance running.Once the reserve of only the most hardcore enthusiasts, ultra running is now a thriving global industry, with hundreds of thousands of competitors each year. But is the rise of this most brutal and challenging sport--with races that ...Show more
TRACK THE by NICHOLSON ROD
$39.95 AUD
Category: Other Sports | Series: Herald Sun Ser.
The new Australian Racing Hall of Fame in Melbourne is a collection of the elite of the sport from the past 120 years. The hall so far honours 53 of the best Australian jockeys, trainers and gallopers are included ranging from Carbine to Phar Lap to Sunline, from Scobie Breasley to Roy Higgins, from Eti ...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
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
WWE Encyclopedia of Sports Entertainment (New Edition) by DK
$69.99 AUD
Category: Other Sports
Delve into the world of WWE with the most expansive all-encompassing guide ever produced on sports entertainment!Get all the history, facts, and stats on the Superstars you love in the updated WWE Encyclopedia of Sports Entertainment. This bumper new edition packs more than 1,100 Superstars into more th ...Show more
Victress - Women Who Paved the Way in Australian Sport by Corinne Hall; Michael Randall
$39.95 AUD
Category: Other Sports
Mother, wife, partner, daughter, sister, niece, grandmother: every woman is a VICTRESS in her own unique and special way. This book is an ode to some of Australia's most cherished female athletes who, not just through achievements in their chosen sport, but through their unwavering conviction and commit ...Show more
The World's Game : A History of Soccer by Bill Murray
$46.99 AUD
Category: Other Sports
Murray traces the development of soccer from pre- industrial times to the 1994 World Cup, weaving the sport's growth into the culture and politics of the countries where it has been taken up. Known as much for the emotional outbursts and violence of its fans as for its own stars, soccer (or football, a ...Show more
Stoked!: Winners and Grinners from Our Sporting Life by H. G. Nelson
$9.99 AUD
Category: Other Sports | Reading Level: 6 Sport
There’s nothing Australians love better than a sporting hero, except perhaps giving that hero a gentle ribbing for having the temerity to outstrip the rest of us. From the Jumping Doc and his ‘Peltzer flinch’ to late nineteenth century fashion on the field (knitted jumper, anyone?), the great H.G. ‘batt ...Show more