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Brutal - The 100 Year Fight for World Rugby Supremacy by Ron Palenski
$37.99 NZD
Category: Sport | Reading Level: near fine
This year marks a hundred years of the greatest rivalry the rugby world has known, New Zealand against South Africa. These titans first met on a test field in 1921 and, coincidentally, in the hundredth year of their battle for supremacy, they will also play their 100th test. The intense, unmatched rival ...Show more
Essential All Blackography by Palenski Ron
$24.99 NZD
$39.99 (37% off)
Category: Overstocks
Lavish new edition of this indispensable guide to every All Blacks from the very first player - James Allan in 1884 to the most recent crop selected for the All Blacks end-of-year tour in 2016. A headshot of every player - many in full colour - is accompanied by a potted biography, including all playing ...Show more
Kiwi Battlefields by Ron Palenski
$44.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand | 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
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical | 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
$39.99 NZD
Category: Sport | 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: Sport
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
$54.99 NZD
$69.99 (21% off)
Category: Sport
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 Jersey by Ron Palenski
$49.95 NZD
Category: Lifestyle
This work explores the historical background of the All Blacks and the mystique that has grown around them. It examines what the jersey and, by association, the All Black status means to both players and public and even to opponents.
The Making of New Zealanders by Ron Palenski
$45.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | 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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