A Life Well Played by Arnold Palmer
$39.99 NZD
Category: International Sports
While other golfers have won more tournaments than Arnold Palmer has, no one has won more fans around the world and no player has had a bigger impact on the sport. In fact, Palmer is considered by many to be the most important golfer in history. As a follow-up to his 1999 autobiography, Palmer takes sto ...Show more
Aikido Weapons Techniques : The Wooden Sword, Stick and Knife of Aikido by Lynn Phong Thong; Seiser Dang
$21.99 NZD
Category: International Sports | Reading Level: General Adult
Master the wooden weapons used in Aikido with this comprehensive martial arts training manual. Although aikido is often thought of as a nonviolent, noncompetitive martial art, the use of weapons was introduced by the art's founder O'Sensei Morihei Ueshiba. In fact, aikido techniques that use wooden ...Show more
Ali's Utterly Unreliable Guide to the 2011 World Cup by Ali Williams with James Griffin
$44.99 NZD
Category: Sports
Following on from last year's stunningly successful bestseller, Ali's Book of Tall Tales, the All Blacks' big lock with the off-beat (and oft irreverent) sense of humour has teamed up again with James Griffin to produce this hilarious preview of the 2011 Rugby World Cup. Although an Achilles heel injury ...Show more
All White Fever: New Zealand's Road to the World Cup by John Matheson
$32.00 NZD
Category: Sports
The scenes at Wellington's Westpac Stadium when the All Whites qualified for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in November were unprecedented in New Zealand. The 'White-out' by the fans helped inspire Ricki Herbert's team to a famous 1-0 win against Bahrain - a result which sent the All Whites to the World Cup fo ...Show more
An Insiders Guide to the Japanese Martial Arts - A New Look at Japan's Fighting Traditions by Alexander Bennett
$39.99 NZD
Category: International Sports
The ultimate guide to the Japanese martial arts by the world's foremost expert!Author Alexander Bennett is the ultimate insider, having lived in Japan for decades. He holds multiple black belts in Kendo and Naginata, as well as PhDs in Japanese literature and history.An Insider's Guide to the Japanese M ...Show more
And God Created Cricket by Simon Hughes
$39.99 NZD
Category: Sports
Simon Hughes has written an entertaining and irreverent analysis of the history of cricket, taking us beyond the sporting myths of the game to some of its lesser known, more colourful stories and to the heart of what it really means to be English.Cricket defines Englishness like no other national pastim ...Show more
Andrew Flintoff: Ashes to Ashes - One Test After Another by Andrew Flintoff
$34.99 NZD
Category: Sports
'Freddie' Flintoff is perhaps the best-known cricketer in the world, and definitely the most loved in the UK. Widely considered the greatest English all-rounder since Ian Botham, bars at cricket grounds immediately empty the moment he approaches the wicket. It was victory in the 2005 Ashes series that c ...Show more
Arsenal: The Greatest Goals by Nick Callow
$22.99 NZD
Category: International Sports
Arsenal Football Club has enjoyed a storied history at the top table of English football since its founding in 1886: in fact, the Gunners remain the only club never to have been relegated from the premier division. In that time they have picked up 13 League Championships, 11 FA Cups (including three pre ...Show more
Art of Centuries by Steve James
$30.00 NZD
Category: Sports
A century has always had a special resonance, in all walks of life, and none more so than in cricket. Scoring one hundred runs is the ultimate for a batsman. As former England captain Andrew Strauss admits, it's incredibly hard to do; for Ricky Ponting, it's a transformational moment in the career of a ...Show more
Artful Science of Trout Fishing by John Hayes
$49.95 NZD
Category: Sports
Two expert anglers – one a trout scientist and the other an outstanding photographer – combine forces in this new book which will help anglers understand, and catch more and bigger, trout. In a mixture of plain language science, fishing anecdotes and illustrations, they explain how an understanding of t ...Show more
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