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Book Auckland  100 Years of Rugby League  1909 2009

Download or read book Auckland 100 Years of Rugby League 1909 2009 written by John Oliver Coffey and published by Huia Pub.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A crowd of 8,000 curious spectators came to see the first rugby league game played in Auckland at Victoria Park, 1908. Since then, league has become a major sport in New Zealand, and Auckland has been at the core of New Zealand's teams against the strongest international opposition. This book tells of the struggles and triumphs of Auckland teams and players over 100 years of rugby league. It traces successes and disappointments at international, districts, provincial and club levels and profiles the men who made and kept Auckland rugby league strong. Packed with over 300 photographs, in-depth stories of the games and major players and comprehensive statistics, the book is a rich history of a century of Auckland rugby league.

Book Rugby League in New Zealand

Download or read book Rugby League in New Zealand written by Ryan Bodman and published by Bridget Williams Books. This book was released on 2023-09-29 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of a sport told through its communities. Rugby League in New Zealand: A People’s History unveils the compelling journey of a game flourishing against the odds. Beginning with the game’s introduction to the country in 1907, Ryan Bodman reveals the deep-rooted connections between rugby league’s development and the evolving cultural fabric of New Zealand. By questioning the mythic status of rugby union in the nation’s identity, this history highlights how power, politics and people have collectively shaped the country’s sporting scene. Drawing on first-hand interviews and a wide range of illustrations and archival material, Bodman locates rugby league history in working-class suburbs, and among Kiingitanga Māori, Pasifika migrants, and clubs and communities across the country. The people behind the game share accounts of change, triumph and resilience, while emphasising rugby league’s lasting influence on New Zealanders’ lives.

Book 100 Years

Download or read book 100 Years written by John Oliver Coffey and published by Huia Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 100 Years: Maori Rugby League 1908-2008 tells the story of the New Zealand Maori Rugby League Team from its origins in 1908 to the present day. The book covers major matches, along with biographies of prominent players and administrators. A rich collection of stories and interviews with former players tells the reader what really happened off and on the field. The book has been thoroughly researched with information coming from England, France, Australia and throughout New Zealand, and it is illustrated with over 200 images. There have been no books specifically written on Maori involvement with rugby league, until now. 100 Years: Maori Rugby League 1908-2008 is about players, administrators and whanau. It's about the fabulous moments, the glories of victory and the agonies of defeat, and it gives a comprehensive story of Maori participation in rugby league.

Book The Kiwis

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Coffey
  • Publisher : Hachette Book Group USA
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9781869710903
  • Pages : 440 pages

Download or read book The Kiwis written by John Coffey and published by Hachette Book Group USA. This book was released on 2007 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1907 a New Zealand team launched international rugby league by touring Australia, Britain, and Australia (again) against a backdrop of life bans from an outraged rugby union and the tragic death of its young organiser. Since then the Kiwis have played more than 100 test matches each against traditional rivals Australia and Great Britain, have had a 50-year rivalry with France, and competed in World Cup tournaments since 1954. There have been disastrous tours, such as that in 1926-27 when seven forwards went on strike in England and were banned for life, and triumphant ones, such as when the 1971 Grand Slam Kiwis beat Australia, Britain, and France all in one year. Similarly, there have been many momentous matches at home against the Kangaroos, Lions, and French touring teams. Most of the stories have never been told before. For example, the 1912 New Zealand team refused to come home from Australia until it was given time for an end-of-tour party! For 90 of those years the Kiwis were amateurs battling against overseas professionals. The book being prepared to coincide with the centenary in 2007 will include an introduction, 10 sections covering each of the 10 decades, extensive statistics, and many illustrations.

Book Sport and the British World  1900 1930

Download or read book Sport and the British World 1900 1930 written by E. Nielsen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a lively study of the role that Australians and New Zealanders played in defining the British sporting concept of amateurism. In doing so, they contributed to understandings of wider British identity across the sporting world.

Book Tangata Whenua

    Book Details:
  • Author : Atholl Anderson, Judith Binney, Aroha Harris
  • Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
  • Release : 2014-11-15
  • ISBN : 1927131413
  • Pages : 543 pages

Download or read book Tangata Whenua written by Atholl Anderson, Judith Binney, Aroha Harris and published by Bridget Williams Books. This book was released on 2014-11-15 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History charts the sweep of Māori history from ancient origins through to the twenty-first century. Through narrative and images, it offers a striking overview of the past, grounded in specific localities and histories. The story begins with the migration of ancestral peoples out of South China, some 5,000 years ago. Moving through the Pacific, these early voyagers arrived in Aotearoa early in the second millennium AD, establishing themselves as tangata whenua in the place that would become New Zealand. By the nineteenth century, another wave of settlers brought new technology, ideas and trading opportunities – and a struggle for control of the land. Survival and resilience shape the history as it extends into the twentieth century, through two world wars, the growth of an urban culture, rising protest, and Treaty settlements. Today, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, Māori are drawing on both international connections and their ancestral place in Aotearoa. Fifteen stunning chapters bring together scholarship in history, archaeology, traditional narratives and oral sources. A parallel commentary is offered through more than 500 images, ranging from the elegant shapes of ancient taonga and artefacts to impressions of Māori in the sketchbooks and paintings of early European observers, through the shifting focus of the photographer’s lens to the response of contemporary Māori artists to all that has gone before. The many threads of history are entwined in this compelling narrative of the people and the land, the story of a rich past that illuminates the present and will inform the future.

Book Shadow Watch

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tom Clancy
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 1999-11-01
  • ISBN : 1101002557
  • Pages : 278 pages

Download or read book Shadow Watch written by Tom Clancy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1999-11-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 2001, and American businessman Roger Gordian has extended his reach into space. His company has become the principal contractor in the design and manufacture of Orion, a multinational space station. But the launch of a shuttle carrying parts for the station is sabotaged. Mysterious guerrilla attacks occur at the manufacturing facilities in Brazil and Kazakhstan. And Gordian's deepest fears are confirmed... The Orion project has been targeted by an international terrorist whose criminal enterprises thrive on violence and political instability. Harlan De Vane's goal is to cripple Gordian's intelligence and security tean, while stowing a high-powered electromagnetic pulse generator aboard Orion--a state-of-the-art weapon with the capacity to throw every major American city into chaos...

Book Building Brand Authenticity

Download or read book Building Brand Authenticity written by M. Beverland and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-10-22 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The projection of authenticity is one of the key pillars of marketing. Research reveals that consumers seek authenticity through the brands they choose. Based on extensive research with consumers and brand managers this book offers seven guiding principles for building brand authenticity.

Book The New Zealand Official Year book

Download or read book The New Zealand Official Year book written by New Zealand. Department of Statistics and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rugby  A New Zealand History

Download or read book Rugby A New Zealand History written by Ron Palenski and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-24 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 the Second World War to matches behind barbed wire during the 1981 Springbok tour, from grassroots club rugby to heaving crowds outside Eden Park, Lancaster Park, Athletic Park or Carisbrook, New Zealanders have made rugby their game. In this book, historian and former journalist Ron Palenski tells the full story of rugby in New Zealand for the first time. It is a story of how the game travelled from England and settled in the colony, how Maori and later Pacific players made rugby their own, how battles over amateurism and apartheid threatened the sport, how national teams, provinces and local clubs shaped it. The story of rugby is New Zealand's story. Rooted in extensive research in public and private archives and newspapers, and highly illustrated with many rare photographs and ephemera, this book is the defining history of rugby in a land that has made the game its own.

Book Contract Law

    Book Details:
  • Author : Andrew Stewart
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2019-06-21
  • ISBN : 1107687489
  • Pages : 601 pages

Download or read book Contract Law written by Andrew Stewart and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-21 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a fresh, topical and accessible account of the Australian law of contract.

Book The Rugby Rebellion

Download or read book The Rugby Rebellion written by Sean Fagan and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true history of rugby league's birth in Australia and its dramatic first seasons. A revised, updated and expanded 'Centenary Edition' of The Rugby Rebellion: The Divide of League and Union. Pioneers of Rugby League is a thrilling and authoritative account of the most explosive era in Australian sport - caused by the tumultuous arrival of rugby league (our nation's first professional football code) a century ago. Using dramatic first-hand accounts, of on-field action and off-field events, the true history is revealed: of how 13-man rugby league won the support of New South Wales and Queensland footballers and fans alike, conquering the established rugby union, and thwarting the plans of Australian football.

Book David and Goliath

Download or read book David and Goliath written by Joe Karam and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After thirteen years of legal appeals, David Bain walked out of prison in 2007, a free man. In 1994 five members of the Bain family were shot dead in their Dunedin home. David was soon arrested and charged with murdering his entire family. After reading the police case file the author started a campaign to free David, resulting in the Privy Council's decision that a miscarriage of justice had occurred at David's trial.

Book Acts of War

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tom Clancy
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN : 9780425156018
  • Pages : 516 pages

Download or read book Acts of War written by Tom Clancy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1997 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Syrian terrorists attack a dam in Turkey to threaten the water supply and force all-out war in the Middle East, the new online Regional Op-Center in Greece learns of the plan and launches a counterstrike. Original.

Book Beggarman  Thief

    Book Details:
  • Author : Irwin Shaw
  • Publisher : Open Road Media
  • Release : 2013-02-26
  • ISBN : 1480408131
  • Pages : 358 pages

Download or read book Beggarman Thief written by Irwin Shaw and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A family confronts its dark past in this saga of murder, revenge, and redemption by the New York Times–bestselling author of Rich Man, Poor Man. In Irwin Shaw’s celebrated novel Rich Man, Poor Man, the Jordache clan was divided and scattered by the forces of American culture and capitalism after World War II. In this potent sequel, the family reunites after a terrible act of violence. Wesley never really knew his father, Tom, the black sheep of the Jordache family. Driven by his sorrow and a need for justice, Wesley uncovers surprising truths about his estranged family’s complicated past. Focused, forceful, and deeply moving, Beggarman, Thief is a stunning novel by a true American literary master. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Irwin Shaw including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate.

Book Australia  a Cultural History

Download or read book Australia a Cultural History written by John Rickard and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1988 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: