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Great Australian Sporting Stories

Author : Ian Heads
Publisher : Macmillan Publishers Aus.
ISBN 13 : 1760789119
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Great Australian Sporting Stories written by Ian Heads and published by Macmillan Publishers Aus.. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Heads and Tasker, legends themselves, set out to write a book that would continue the trail laid by early-days sporting scribes of long ago. I could not put it down.' John Coates AC, President of the Australian Olympic Committee 'I know readers will enjoy the many stories and anecdotes that Heads and Tasker have accumulated over more than a century combined in journalism.' Ian Chappell, former Australian cricket Captain. Australia enjoys a rich sporting heritage. Our small population has yielded a disproportionate number of champions. These sports stars have become known worldwide as fierce combatants and honourable competitors, achieving soaring victories, but also heart-pounding near-wins and humbling defeats. Veteran Australian sports journalists Ian Heads and Norman Tasker have seen it all. In these 65 original stories, we hear of the explosive introduction of World Series Cricket in 1977, which turned a genteel endeavour into a high-octane contest, and the clash of the titans as Packer and Murdoch squared off over the Super League war. We see Rugby Union become a battleground for race and the Olympics an arena for sublime acts of courage and achievement. We get an insider's perspective on every kind of sporting endeavour - from boxing to tennis, cricket to AFL, athletics to rugby league - and not just the action on the field, but the change room gossip and clubhouse politics as well. Written with wit, insight and a wealth of knowledge, Great Australian Sporting Stories is an enthralling expedition into the combative, collegiate, entertaining and always exciting world of Australian sport.

Great Australian Sporting Moments

Author : Michael Roberts
Publisher : The Miegunyah Press
ISBN 13 : 0522855474
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (228 download)

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Download or read book Great Australian Sporting Moments written by Michael Roberts and published by The Miegunyah Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a fully illustrated book highlighting some memorable moments in Australian sporting history."--Provided by publisher.

Legends of Australian Sport

Author : Peter Meares
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN 13 : 9780702234101
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Legends of Australian Sport written by Peter Meares and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inside story of the lives of 25 of Australia's sporting greats, written by sports broadcaster, Peter Meares. His friendships have allowed him unprecedented access to their lives and the secrets of their success. Includes profiles on Greg Norman, Leigh Matthews, Greg Chappell, Pam Burridge, Margaret Court and David Campese.

A Pocket Guide to Australia

Author : United States. Army Service Forces. Special Service Division
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book A Pocket Guide to Australia written by United States. Army Service Forces. Special Service Division and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A handbook for U.S. military personnel stationed in Australia during World War II.

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Publisher : Soffer Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book written by and published by Soffer Publishing. This book was released on with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gotta Love This Country!

Author : Peter FitzSimons
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1925268780
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Gotta Love This Country! written by Peter FitzSimons and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2015-11-18 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebration of chest puffing goodness and kindness from around the country written in inimitable Peter FitzSimon's style. You gotta love this country when an AFL legend takes his mum instead of his girlfriend to the Brownlow, when an Australian cricket captain joins a bunch of fourteen year olds for a bit of street cricket, when a bloke wins the Australian Marbles Championship after being reunited with the tom-bowlers his brother threw away forty years ago, and when the dry cleaner down the road is called Drop Your Pants. Peter FitzSimons celebrates the good, the generous, the kind and the downright strange in this hilarious and heart-warming collection of stories from daily life and grassroots sporting fields around the country. It's enough for you to puff out your chest and say, Gotta Love This Country!

Fair Go, Sport

Author : Peter FitzSimons
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 176087020X
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Fair Go, Sport written by Peter FitzSimons and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2018-11-14 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fitzy at his passionate best with chest-puffing tales of great sportsmanship and fair play. Sport was never meant to be complicated. No gibberish, no statistics, no talk of green-zones, black-zones, channels and percentage plays, no cheating, no grubbiness and certainly no ball-tampering. Peter FitzSimons celebrates the good, the generous and the kind in Australian sport, the genuine characters, the national treasures and the special moments when the losers were the true champions and the game, whichever game, was done proud. Hilarious and heart-warming, this is Fitzy at his passionate best. He reminds us that there really are good men and women in sport, that fair play still exists and that anyone can be a winner.

Seriously...You Have to Laugh

Author : Peter FitzSimons
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1952535689
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (525 download)

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Download or read book Seriously...You Have to Laugh written by Peter FitzSimons and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2016-11-23 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Putting his unique spin on our sporting life, Peter FitzSimons celebrates the tall tales and true, the outrageous yarns and the knockabout humour from the footy fields, cricket grounds, dressing rooms, bars and commentary boxes of Australia. From the clever sledges behind the bales and the goalposts to the quick wit of lounge room commentators and the ever so slightly exaggerated tales of holes in one and other great sporting feats, comes this collection of wicked tales, killer quotes and puffed up stories of sporting prowess that it will make you chuckle, roll your eyes and say, 'Seriously... you have to laugh'!

Instructions for American Servicemen in Australia, 1942

Author : Bodleian Library
Publisher : Instructions for Servicemen
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Instructions for American Servicemen in Australia, 1942 written by Bodleian Library and published by Instructions for Servicemen. This book was released on 2006 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly 1 million American soldiers passed through Australia between 1942 and 1945 as part of America's strategy to re-capture the Philippines and defeat Japan.They encountered a country full of reassuring similarities and strange differences. Here was a land of wide-open spaces, roughly the same size as the US, with a can-do, pioneering spirit, a history of swift development; a land of 'funny animals' and peculiar vowel sounds. But who were the Australians and how were Americans to behave in their midst? They were, of course, 'an outdoors sort of people, breezy and very democratic', with a gargantuan appetite for swearing.In the inimitable prose of the soldier's pocket book series, this pithy guide captures the essence of Australia and its people, their humour, vocabulary; their attitude to the Yanks, the British, the War and the world with remarkable economy and clarity. It also manages to squeeze in a précis of Australian history, politics, economics, sports, and musical tradition, as well as colourful lexicon of national slang, which defines for example sheila as 'a babe', cliner as 'another babe', and sninny as 'a third babe'. Like any self-respecting guide to Australian culture, it contains the text of Waltzing Matilda, together with a few bon mots about its cultural significance, particularly in wartime.Unlike cricket, which is a polite game, Australian Rules Football creates a desire on the part of the crowd to tear someone apart, usually the referee.The Australian has few equals in the world at swearing ...the commonest swear words are bastard (pronounced "barstud"), "bugger," and "bloody," and the Australians have a genius for using the latter nearly every other word.

Sports around the World [4 volumes]

Author : John Nauright
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2668 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book Sports around the World [4 volumes] written by John Nauright and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-04-06 with total page 2668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multivolume set is much more than a collection of essays on sports and sporting cultures from around the world: it also details how and why sports are played wherever they exist, and examines key charismatic athletes from around the world who have transcended their sports. Sports Around the World: History, Culture, and Practice provides a unique, global overview of sports and sports cultures. Unlike most works of this type, this book provides both essays that examine general topics, such as globalization and sport, international relations and sport, and tourism and sport, as well as essays on sports history, culture, and practice in world regions—for example, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East and North Africa, Europe, and Oceania—in order to provide a more global perspective. These essays are followed by entries on specific sports, world athletes, stadiums and arenas, famous games and matches, and major controversies. Spanning topics as varied as modern professional cycling to the fictional movie Rocky to the deadly ball game of the ancient Mayans, the first three volumes contain overview essays and entries for specific sports that have been and are currently practiced around the world. The fourth volume provides a compendium of information on the winners of major sporting competitions from around the world. Readers will gain invaluable insights into how sports have been enjoyed throughout all of human culture, and more fully comprehend their cultural contexts. The entries provide suggestions for further reading on each topic—helpful to general readers, students with school projects, university students and academics alike. Additionally, the four-volume Sports Around the World spotlights key charismatic athletes who have changed a sport or become more than just an outstanding player.

The Coaches

Author : David Becker
Publisher : Sports Wisdom
ISBN 13 : 0980767202
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book The Coaches written by David Becker and published by Sports Wisdom. This book was released on 2010 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover how some of Australia¿s most successful sports coaches think and find out the skills they use to coach a winning team or athlete.

The Making of Champions in California

Author : Dewitt Van Court
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Making of Champions in California written by Dewitt Van Court and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Youth Sport in Australia

Author : Steve Georgakis
Publisher : Sydney University Press
ISBN 13 : 1920899642
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Youth Sport in Australia written by Steve Georgakis and published by Sydney University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Youth sport in Australia explores the history and policy development of youth sport in the Australian context, the role of sport and physical education in private and public schools. The book investigates the conflict between elite and grassroots sport and its repercussions on policymaking and youth involvement in sport.

Oppy

Author : Daniel Oakman
Publisher : Melbourne Books
ISBN 13 : 1925556336
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Oppy written by Daniel Oakman and published by Melbourne Books. This book was released on 2018-09-01 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There was only one Phar Lap: There is only one 'Oppy' - Courier Mail, 1932. Hubert 'Oppy' Opperman was a sporting icon, a cycling phenomenon whose epic feats of endurance captivated the world. For over two decades, he dominated almost every race he entered and shattered record after record in Australia and Great Britain. In 1928, he led the first Australasian team to ever contest the Tour de France. But Oppy was more than just a champion. During the Great Depression, a time of painful economic and social change, he became a transcendent symbol of Australian fortitude. He became a household name, a legend - as popular as the cricketer Don Bradman and the racehorse Phar Lap. As well as vividly retelling his sporting triumphs, this book is the first to consider the legacy of Opperman's post-cycling career. It explores the emotional pain of his private life, the controversies that dogged his seventeen-year political career including his term as Minister for Immigration in the Menzies Government, and the far-reaching changes he helped bring to Australian immigration policy. This meticulously researched biography gives readers a thrilling insight into the brutal world of professional cycling and an intimate portrait of an extraordinary Australian.

Australian Sport

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Australian Sport written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Australian Sport--better by Design?

Author : Bob Stewart
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415340472
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Australian Sport--better by Design? written by Bob Stewart and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Australia's Sporting Success

Author : John Bloomfield
Publisher : UNSW Press
ISBN 13 : 9780868405827
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book Australia's Sporting Success written by John Bloomfield and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary performances of Australian athletes, and the awareness of the system that fostered them, came to the world's attention during the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000. Bloomfield traces the development of Australian sport from the early 19th century to the modern day institutions that drive our sporting success.