Tutenkhamen's Tracksuit - The History Of Sport In 100-ish Objects by Alan Tyers
29.99 AUD
Category: Sport
In this weird and wonderful museum catalogue, the optician's prescription for the 1966 World Cup Russian linesman appears next to a news report of an ear-biting scandal in the Roman Gladiatorial arena, and an advert for Roger Bannister's four-minute egg timer is featured alongside Andrew Flintoff's bar ...Show more
The Hurt Business: A Century of the Greatest Writing on Boxing by George Kimball
24.99 AUD
Category: Sport
From Jack London to Joyce Carol Oates, The Hurt Business is the ultimate boxing book covering a century of the greatest fighter and the writers who have followed 'the sweet science'. Beginning with Jack London's account of the 1910 championship bout between Jack Johnson and James Jeffries (for which the ...Show more
The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance by David Epstein (Columbia University, New York)
39.99 AUD
Category: Sport
Now a "New York Times" Bestseller! "In high school, I wondered whether the Jamaican Americans who made our track team so successful might carry some special speed gene from their tiny island. In college, I ran against Kenyans, and wondered whether endurance genes might have traveled with them from East ...Show more
Fixed: Cheating, Doping, Rape and Murder - The Inside Track on Australia's Racing Industry by Matthew Benns
19.95 AUD
Category: Sport
In this updated version, Matthew Benns takes us back into the murky world of Australian horseracing. Dapper horse trainer Les Samba was in Melbourne for the annual yearling sales when he turned down an Italian meal with racing contacts saying, 'I have to meet a bloke.' Just hours later he was dead, bloo ...Show more
Amen How Adam Scott won the US Masters and broke the curse of Augusta National by Will Swanton and Brent Read
27.99 AUD
Category: Sport
The US Masters. The most famous tournament of all. A global TV audience of 150 million, a string of legendary winners...and a curse for Australian golfers. From Jim Ferrier blowing a huge lead in 1950 to Greg Norman's litany of disasters over decades, the US Masters constantly turned its back on any Aus ...Show more
That Summer at Boomerang by Phil Jarratt
29.95 AUD
Category: Sport
The narrative begins in Hawaii, tracing the renaissance of surfing after decades of missionary prohibition, and the rise of the Waikiki beach boys, as tourism begins to transform the pineapple port of Honolulu. That Summer at Boomerang recreates pre-World War I Australia and tells a tale of its loss of ...Show more
Olympic Gold by Robin Poke
49.99 AUD
Category: Sport
Olympic Gold follows the inspirational journeys of Australia's 74 individual Olympic gold medallists, at both the Summer and Winter Games. Australia has enjoyed an unbroken involvement in the modern Olympics, from Edwin Flack's double-gold on the track at the first modern Games in 1896, to Lydia Lassila ...Show more
Learn to Navigate: The No-nonsense Guide for Everyone by Basil Mosenthal
19.99 AUD
21.99 (9% off)
Category: Sport
Learn to Navigate has been the bestselling introduction to navigation for almost 20 years. With its refreshingly new approach, it introduces the basics in non-technical language, and takes the reader through each step with explanatory illustrations, chart extracts, screenshots and photographs. It is the ...Show more
The Illustrated Boat Dictionary in 9 Languages
39.99 AUD
Category: Sport
The Illustrated Boat Dictionary in 9 Languages is a first - annotated illustrations arranged by topic allow quick communication when something goes wrong abroad. Centred around clear, full colour, annotated diagrams in each subject area, the dictionary makes it easy and convenient to translate between n ...Show more
Darren Lockyer Autobiography by Darren Lockyer
19.99 AUD
Category: Sport
The updated edition of the Rugby League superstar's end-of-career autobiography. In 2011, NRL fans had the chance to share in a piece of rugby league history. The game's record books were re-written, some taken to heights unlikely to ever be matched. Darren Lockyer celebrated his 34th birthday in 2011. ...Show more
Bump and Run by Andrew Crockett
19.95 AUD
Category: Sport
The wisdom of the elders...Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player, Peter Thomson, Kel Nagle, Sir Bob Charles, David Graham, Bill Dunk, Peter Toogood, Jack Newton, Bob Shearer, Ian Stanley, Jan Stephenson, Bruce Devlin, Graham Marsh, Bruce Crampton, Frank Phillips and Norman Von Nida share their collective ecperienc ...Show more