The Football Solution: How Richmond's premiership can save Australia by George Megalogenis
22.99 AUD
Category: Sport
A sport unlike any other in the world, football has always been Australia's bellwether. But at a time when politics is increasingly conducted like sports - full of one-eyed tribalism, captain's calls and policy dictated by the Newspoll scoreboard - football is the one institution that's more relevant th ...Show more
A Sporting Chance: Australian Sporting Scandals and the Path to Redemption by Titus O'Reily
22.99 AUD
Category: Sport
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
Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum
19.99 AUD
Category: Sport | Series: Adlard Coles Maritime Classics Ser.
It remains one of the most thrilling and entertaining travel narratives of all time. Slocum writes of dangers and delights in encounters with Moorish pirates and Juan Fernandez islanders, tempests and languid seas, sharks and flying fish. In 1877, eighteen years before Slocum weighed anchor on his 74,00 ...Show more
Berkmann's Cricketing Miscellany by Marcus Berkmann
35.00 AUD
Category: Sport
Marcus Berkmann, author of the cricket classics Rain Men and Zimmer Men, returns to the great game with this gallimaufrey of cricketing trivia, stories and fascinating facts. Which England captain smoked two million cigarettes in his lifetime? Which Australian captain, asked what his favourite animal wa ...Show more
Hitting Against the Spin: How Cricket Really Works by Nathan Leamon, Ben Jones
32.99 AUD
Category: Sport
In an era of big-data, how are leaders in sport, business, politics and education supposed to use the power of this new tool productively? Hitting Against the Spin is an object lesson in how to use data and analytics to elucidate the science and structure of cricket. Easy to read and packed with illustr ...Show more
Border's Battlers by Michael Sexton
29.99 AUD
Category: Sport
It's the 1986 tour of India, and Australian cricket is reeling from the loss of key players to retirement and rebel tours. Few give Australia a chance against a surging India, and even Allan Border doubts his ability to lead this team. What follows is one of the most titanic struggles in cricket history ...Show more
The Fine Cotton Fiasco by Peter Hoysted Pat Sheil
34.99 AUD
Category: Sport
Brisbane, 1984. It all started with a simple plan to secretly swap a mediocre horse with a faster one, and rake in the cash with a few well-placed bets. What could possibly go wrong?In The Fine Cotton Fiasco, Peter Hoysted and Pat Sheil brilliantly tell the scarcely believable tale of how - through a co ...Show more
Gangland This Unsporting Life by James Morton; Susanna Lobez
29.99 AUD
Category: Sport
Sport has always attracted organised crime. Huge sums of money are wagered in every arena, and rorts, swindles and unsporting behaviour have shadowed players of all codes. Cricket and footy are not immune, with Heath Shaw and Ben Cousins caught up in gambling and drugs, and NRL star Ryan Tandy in match- ...Show more
The Official Encyclopedia of the Yellow Jersey: 100 Years of the Yellow Jersey (Maillot Jaune) by Frederique Galametz, Philippe Bouvet
45.00 AUD
Category: Sport
On the occasion of the 2019 Tour de France Yellow Jersey's centenary, comes The Official Encyclopedia of the Maillot Jaune. Divided into four major parts, this book covers the incredible stories of every Yellow Jersey winner, the Kings of the Kings - the five times winners of the Tour, the Yellow Jerse ...Show more
Cricket's Greatest Rivalry: Completely revised and updated for 2019 by Simon Hughes
22.99 AUD
Category: Sport
From the William Hill Award-Winning Author of A Lot of Hard Yakka comes Cricket's Greatest Rivalry: A History of the Ashes in 10 Matches by Simon Hughes. A fast-paced, distinctive history of the iconic, 137-year-old cricketing rivalry between England and Australia published in the year of back-to-back ...Show more
Surfers' Blood by Patrick Trefz
42.99 AUD
Category: Sport
Surfers' Blood, an update with new texts of the popular hardcover, from award-winning surf photographer and filmmaker Patrick Trefz, is a survey of decades spent photographing the lifestyles and bloodlines of surf culture across the globe.Surfers' Blood captures all the diverse elements that make surfin ...Show more