Author(s): Mark Taylor & Paul Clarkson (Ill.)

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 caricatures of all players. The half-century of New Zealand representatives chosen for this book possess a multitude of attributes. They were, or are, masters of try-scoring, goal-kicking, leadership, speed, strength or guile. Often, they exhibited a combination of these qualities. Leading the array of talent, the great majority of whom graced the Test arena after World War II, are such giants of the All Black game as Billy Wallace, Bert Cooke, George Nepia, Maurice Brownlie, Bob Scott, Colin Meads, Don Clarke, Brian Lochore, Wilson Whineray, Ken Gray, Sean Fitzpatrick, Michael Jones, John Kirwan, Jeff Wilson and Jonah Lomu.