Facing Fear: The First Woman to Sail Solo Around Antarctica by Lisa Blair
34.95 AUD
Category: Sport
Facing Fear is the inspiring true story of Lisa Blair who sailed into the history books on 25 July 2017 by becoming the first woman to sail solo around Antarctica. Seventy-two days into her circumnavigation, when Lisa was more than 1000 nautical miles from land, the mast of Climate Action Now came cras ...Show more
Why Is Soccer Played Eleven Against Eleven? ["Everything You Need to Know about Soccer"] by Luciano Wernicke
24.99 AUD
Category: Sport
Why Is Soccer Played Eleven Against Eleven? reveals one hundred facts of soccer history and rules that are either unknown or little known, such as why soccer is played eleven against eleven, why soccer matches last 90 minutes, who the first coach was, how the referee appeared, and who invented goal nets ...Show more
Surfing - Water Is Freedom by Russell Ord (By (photographer)); Anthony Pancia (Text by)
49.99 AUD
Category: Sport
Russell Ord's spectacular images have won him worldwide recognition, and deservedly so. Based in WesternAustralia, Russell is renowned for his awesome images of super thick empty peaks and heavy sessions at reefslike The Box and The Right. You can pick up any surf magazine in the country and find Russel ...Show more
Gloves Off - Tyson Fury Autobiography by Tyson Fury
24.99 AUD
Category: Sport
The No-Holds-Barred Autobiography Tyson pulls no punches in his most candid, comprehensive and entertaining book yet, which chronicles for the first time in full his inspirational story - the rise, the fall, and the rise again, which saw him come back from the brink of suicide to reclaim his heavyweigh ...Show more
Tom Hawkins by Tom Hawkins
49.99 AUD
Category: Sport
Celebrating the amazing career of AFL star Tom Hawkins, from his family background, with his dad also a champion player, through to his contribution to Geelong's ongoing success on the football field, we learn what has made Tom a star. From a scholarship in 2006 as an under-18, Tom’s career has been ful ...Show more
Human Playground: Why We Play by HANNELORE VANDENBUSSCHE
135.00 AUD
Category: Sport | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Why do we play games? That is the question Belgian photographer Hannelore Vandenbussche decided to explore, travelling to numerous countries to roam the world of sports, passion, athletic competition, transition, and emancipation. The athletes she portrays keep old traditions alive or carve out new terr ...Show more
The Enlightened Cyclist: Finding the Path to Two-wheeled Transcendence by BikeSnobNYC
22.95 AUD
Category: Sport
In Bike Snob, blogger BikeSnobNYC offered an overview of cycling and the various 'bike cultures.' This next book will focus on an experience that cyclists the world over are familiar with: commuting. With his trademark snark, humor and begrudging enthusiasm, BikeSnobNYC will take readers through the t ...Show more
Game Changers - How Female Athletes Defined Their Critics and Made History in the Roaring Twenties by National Geographic Kids; Sue Macy
24.99 AUD
Category: Sport
Award-winning author Sue Macy offers a fresh and timely account of women in sports in the 1920s, and how their determination, talent, and defiance in the face of criticism promoted women's rights, redefined femininity, and changed the course of history. Macy offers a rare and fascinating glimpse int ...Show more
Friday Night Lights : A town, a team and a dream by H.G. Bissinger
35.00 AUD
Category: Sport
In the state of Texas American football is a religion. And nowhere is more fanatical about its football than the small town of Odessa. There, every Friday night from September to November, a bunch of seventeen-year-old kids play their hearts out for the honour of their high school. In front of 20,000 pe ...Show more
Ali on Ali: Why He Said What He Said When He Said It by Hana Ali (with Danny Peary)
29.99 AUD
Category: Sport
Muhammad Ali was a champion, a poet, a prophet. Sports Illustrated called him "the greatest athlete of the twentieth century." And yet he was even more than all of that, "a whole greater than the sum of its parts . . . bigger, brighter, more original and influential than just about anyone of his era" (B ...Show more
Heroes Villains and Velodromes Chris Hoy and Britain's Track Cycling Revolution by Richard Moore
19.99 AUD
Category: Sport
Fully updated to include the extraordinary scenes at London 2012, where Hoy won two more gold medals to bring his total to six and overtake Sir Steve Redgrave, this is the story of Britain's greatest ever Olympian. Chris Hoy has been instrumental in British track cycling's remarkable transformation from ...Show more
The Bike Owner's Handbook by Peter Drinkell
19.95 AUD
Category: Sport
Two wheels, two pedals, a seat and some handlebars the bicycle is a beautifully simple means of transport, and its simplicity has allowed it to enjoy a soaring resurgence of popularity in urban areas, as millions embrace its speed, efficiency, and yes, its aesthetic. "The Bike-Owners Handbook" is a beau ...Show more