A Game of Two Halves - The Best of Sport 2005 2019 by Fergus Barrowman
$35.00 NZD
Category: Sport | Reading Level: very good
Sport was conceived in the back of Damien Wilkins’ yellow Ford Escort – he tells the story in the introduction to Great Sporting Moments – and born in spring 1988. A Game of Two Halves: The Best of Sport 2005–2019 chronicles the second half of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most exciting literary magazine’s lif ...Show more
Steph Curry: Life Lessons from a Legend by Sean Deveney
$39.99 NZD
Category: Sport | Series: Life Lessons from a Legend Ser.
Living legend Steph Curry's principles on and off the basketball court. Steph Curry is making history in front of our eyes. In this next edition of our successful sports biography series, basketball fans can learn about the Baby-Faced Assassin's principles in life and in the game. With eye-catching illu ...Show more
Jan Ullrich - The Best There Never Was by Daniel Friebe
$27.99 NZD
Category: Sport
The first biography of one of the most controversial champions of the Tour de France, Jan Ullrich. Now available in paperback.In 1997, Jan Ullrich announced himself to the world by obliterating his rivals in the first mountain stage of the Tour de France. So awesome was his display that it sent shockwav ...Show more
However Tall the Mountain: A Dream, Eight Girls, and a Journey Home by Awista Ayub
$49.99 NZD
Category: Sport
In 1979, when Awista Ayub was only two years old, her family fled Afghanistan for the United States, where Awista flourished, thanks to organized athletics--and where she vowed to make a difference in her home country some day. Soon after the fall of the Taliban, Awista saw her chance: She founded the A ...Show more
Return to Rugby Land - Expatriate Reflections on the Rugby World Cup 2011, Sport, Society and New Zealand
$24.00 NZD
Category: Sport
After a forty year voluntary exile, an expatriate kiwi returns to New Zealand to travel around while reporting on the 2011 Rugby World Cup. Return To Rugby Land is a challenging and provocative social commentary encompassing more than just the games or scenery. Scott explores sport's place in society, a ...Show more
Stargazing: The Players in My Life by Ravi Shastri
$37.99 NZD
Category: Sport
As a young boy, Ravi Shastri followed India's record-breaking run chases on the radio, ears glued for every masterful stroke his idol Gundappa Viswanath played. Barely a decade later he was on the pitch himself, dazzling fans all over the world by hitting six sixes in one over. From being Champion of Ch ...Show more
Racing Bicycles: The Illustrated Story of Road Cycling by Nick Higgins
$29.99 NZD
Category: Sport
Everything you need to know about road cycling - the bikes, the races, the famous riders - in an intricately illustrated, compact volume. Every major historical development of the road bicycle and the road race is illustrated, from the first geared bikes to modern-day time-trial machines, and from t ...Show more
2022 Cricket Almanack by Francis Payne; Ian Smith
$55.00 NZD
Category: Sport
The New Zealand Cricket Almanack is the cricket lover's bible and is regarded worldwide as one of the finest books of its kind. The 75th edition contains all the details of another full year of cricket at all levels. As usual, there is a detailed records section and a fascinating collection of the seaso ...Show more
Phar Lap - The Story of Australia's Greatest Ever Racehorse by Geoff Armstrong; Peter Thompson
$39.99 NZD
Category: Sport
Secondhand. Every champion Australian racehorse since 1930 has been called 'the best since the Phar Lap'. So will the next record breaker, because Phar Lap captured the imagination of the sporting public like no other thoroughbred ever has or ever will. This was in part because of his remarkable backst ...Show more
After Everest: A Sherpa's Dream to Conquer the Top of the World by Tenzing Norgay
$49.99 NZD
Category: Sport
A timely return of this Everest classic autobiography on the 70th anniversary of climbing Everest for the first time together with Sir Edmund Hillary. On 29 May 1953 Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary conquered Everest, three days before the coronation of Queen Elizabeth. Before their success, Everest ha ...Show more
How To Watch Football: 52 Rules for Understanding the Beautiful Game, On and Off the Pitch by Tifo The Athletic
$30.00 NZD
Category: Sport
A pithy, funny, illustrated guide to football, publishing just in time for the 2022 World CupRule #1- Don't Watch the BallYes, football is about stars, goals and glory. But it's also about the intense calculations and movements being made by the twenty-one other players on the pitch. It's about the tick ...Show more