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All Blacks : Myths and Legends by Ron Palenski
$40.00 NZD
Category: Sports Biography
Contains new information that will debunk a long-held belief about the origins of the All Blacks and many other previously untold stories.Ron Palenski is one of New Zealand's most successful and respected sports writers.
All Blacks: The Authorised Portrait by Ron Palenski
$75.00 NZD
Category: Sports Biography
With the endorsement of the New Zealand Rugby Union, this is a book about the All Blacks of a type never before published. It will trace the history of rugby's most notable and most successful team over more than a century entirely in pictures. Drawing on archives and contemporary sources in New Zealand ...Show more
All Blacks v. Lions by Ron Palenski
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
The unique team that is the British Isles rugby side ? or the Lions as they are more commonly referred to ? will tour New Zealand in June and July 2005 for the first time in 12 years. The tour will be the biggest sporting event of the year and is eagerly awaited by all New Zealand rugby fans. In All Bla ...Show more
Dan Carter: Skills and Performance by Ron Palenski
$45.00 NZD
Category: Sport general
Dan Carter is without doubt the hottest property in world rugby. At just 23 years of age, Carter is now regarded as the pre-eminent flyhalf in the game. In "My Way" - a book aimed at the "kidult" market - Carter will offer tips on playing the game, skill drills and training to succeed. In addition, the ...Show more
Encyclopedia of New Zealand Rugby (OUT OF PRINT) by Ron Palenski
$30.00 NZD
Category: Sports Biography
The Encyclopedia of New Zealand Rugby is the most complete and detailed book on New Zealand Rugby. First published in 1981, this fourth edition has been extensively updated and is now even more comprehensive than before. It is a valuable reference tool and indispensable companion of every serious follow ...Show more
Kiwi Battlefields by Ron Palenski
$45.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: Very Good
For more than a hundred years, New Zealanders have gone overseas to fight in foreign wars; they've gone to places few had heard of before but whose names now are as familiar as if they were just down the road. Names such as Gallipoli, Messines, Passchendaele, Crete, El Alamein, Cassino entered the New Z ...Show more
Men of Valour: New Zealand & the Battle for Crete by Ron Palenski
$40.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: Very Good
For a time in the Second World War, Crete was the prize both sides wanted. The Allies had it and the Germans wanted it. The Germans won. The man in charge of hanging on to it was Bernard (Tiny) Freyberg, the New Zealand Divison commander who was made the Greek island s intended saviour. With him was a r ...Show more
Murdoch - The All Black Who Never Returned by Palenski Ron
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography | Reading Level: near fine
The story of Keith Murdoch is the great unsolved mystery of world rugby. The All Black who was sent home from the tour of the British Isles in 1972 and who exiled himself to the vastness of the Australian outback remains a banner headline in rugby memories. It does so despite the passing of the years.Th ...Show more
Our Game: New Zealand Rugby at 150 by Ron Palenski
$39.99 NZD
Category: Sports and Hobbies
The year 2020 marks the 150th anniversary of the first game of rugby in Nelson; this book will celebrate 150 years of New Zealand's national game, the game more than any other that has helped shape the New Zealand psyche and identity.It will take the form of 150 short stories - stories about the players ...Show more
Rugby: a New Zealand History by Palenski Ron
$70.00 NZD
Category: Sport general
Rugby is New Zealand's national sport. From the grand tour by the 1888 Natives to the upcoming 2015 World Cup, from games in the North African desert in World War II to matches behind barbed wire during the 1981 Springbok tour, from grassroots club rugby to heaving crowds outside Eden Park, Lancaster Pa ...Show more
The Making of New Zealanders by Ron Palenski
$45.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Examining the development of a sense of national identity in a British colony, this highly authoritative work is a valuable addition to the literature in New Zealand. By looking at the onset of home-grown shipping, railway, and telegraph networks as well as at the Maori and kiwi experiences, not to ment ...Show more
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