1905 - The Triumphant Tour of the NZ Footballers by George Dixon
$19.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Sports | Reading Level: very good
A facsimile of the original tour book written by the manager, with a complete record of every match played by the Original All Blacks.
1921: Rugby Race & Empire by Mike Munro
$35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Sports
In the winter of 1921 a Springboks rugby team toured New Zealand for the first time, captivating the country. An all-white team of mostly Afrikaners, they came cloaked in a powerful mystique – blue-eyed, “youthful giants” from a fellow British colony. Twenty-three of the team had served in the just-ende ...Show more
50 Famous All Blacks: Poetry in Motion by Mark Taylor & Paul Clarkson (Ill.)
$24.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Sports
Players from 100 years ago, those from more recent times, and the stars of today. They all team up in 50 Famous All Blacks, a rugby volume with a difference. Author Mark Taylor has provides key information on each player and their career is celebrated in verse. Paul Clarkson has provided delightful cari ...Show more
A Complete History of Rugby World Cup by Lance Peatey
$35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Sports
From modest beginnings in 1987, the Rugby World Cup now has the alluring aura that inspires everything a rugby country can muster. It is all or nothing, and their goal is plain and simple.
As If Running on Air - The Diaries and Journals of Jack Lovelock by Jack Lovelock; David Colquhoun
$21.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Sports | Reading Level: very good
In the 1930s the New Zealander Jack Lovelock was one of the world's best-known athletes. In 1933 he broke the world record for the mile. At the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games he won a gold medal and broke the world record for the 1500 metres. When he retired, a leading sports writer lamented the end of a gol ...Show more
Ballin' in Black: Our Tall Blacks Test Centurions by Huw Beynon
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Sports
When Tom Abercrombie was presented with his 100th cap ahead of the FIBA World Cup in 2019, he joined an exclusive club. He became the 11th player to reach a century of tests for the Tall Blacks. Standing at his side was Pero Cameron, the first man to achieve the feat. These players, and the nine between ...Show more
Beaudy: Skills, Drills and the Path to the Top by Rikki Swannell
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Sports
From his upbringing with seven siblings in rural New Zealand, experiences in Ireland as a child, to his rise through the rugby ranks with Taranaki and the Hurricanes, Beauden Barrett will give an insight into what has made him the player he's become, the setbacks he had along the way and the choices he ...Show more
Behind the Silver Fern: The Players Speak by Tony Johnson and Lynn McConnell
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Sports
Go behind the scenes with the world’s most successful sports team. This is a complete history of the All Blacks told by the players themselves. From the legendary 1905 “Originals” to Richie McCaw’s record-breaking back-to-back World Cup champions of 2015, this is the history of the All Blacks as they h ...Show more
Black Boots - New Zealand Rugby Legends by Phill Gifford; Barry Durrant
$49.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Sports | Reading Level: new
Over 200 photographs from a classic era of NZ rugby - 1950s-early 1990s, many unusual images from behind the scenes. Fascinating (and funny) captions from renowned rugby writer Phil Gifford. Perfect gift for the nostalgia-loving rugby fan - will bring back many great memories of AB greats and tours.
Black Gold: The story of how the All Blacks became rugby's most valuable asset by Gregor Paul
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Sports
The story of global rugby's golden goose. This book tells the story of how the All Blacks have been commercialised in the professional age of rugby and the challenges that have come with the team having an enormous international profile, but a domestic market without the scale or means to monetise the b ...Show more
Black Jersey - Silver Fern Tom Ellison: First Maori to Captain the All Blacks by Denis Dwyer
$29.95 NZD
Category: New Zealand Sports
Tom Ellison is the man behind the black jersey and silver fern of the All Blacks. He was the "Mr Rugby" of his era, a tremendous player who captained the All Blacks in 1893 (the first Maori to do so), captained, coached and selected teams, developed the role of the wing-forward which was to give New Zea ...Show more