New Zealand Rugby

Palenski, Ron

Cumulus

Sport (Key moments in the 20th century)

Wilson & Horton Publications

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 mention the emergence of rugby teams, this book accounts for how transplanted Britons, and others, turned themselves into New Zealanders—a distinct group of people with their own songs and sports, symbols and opinions, political traditions, and sense of self. Tracing markers in popular culture, political processes, and public events, this informative and thrilling history focuses on the forging of a distinctive new culture and society.

The Making of New Zealanders

History

Australia & Oceania

Auckland University Press

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.

Rugby: A New Zealand History

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 follower of the game. This new, expanded version contains biographies of every All Black up to the end of 2004 and expands and updates all other chapters. For the first time, The Encyclopedia will include colour photography.

Encyclopedia of New Zealand rugby

Reference

Hodder Moa Beckett

Champions: New Zealand Sporting Greats of the 20th Century

An epic commemorative coffee table book on New Zealandâ€™s sporting rugby pride, the All Blacks. With the endorsement of the New Zealand Rugby Union, this is the most complete commemorative book on the pride of New Zealand, the All Blacks ever published. It traces 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 and overseas, the All Blacks are seen like they have never been seen before. Filled with action shots and rare photos from the archives, many never seen before.

All Blacks: The Authorized Portrait

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Hatchette New Zealand

All Blacks:Myths & Legends

Hodder Moa

Know everything there is to know about all 1,130 All Blacks—past and current members of the New Zealand team that is current holder of the Rugby World Cup From the very first player, James Allan in 1884, to the most recent crop selected for the All Blacks end-of-year tour in 2013, this is an indispensable guide to every All Black. A headshot of every player, many in full color, is accompanied by a short biography, including all playing statistics. This is the most comprehensive book on the 1,130 players to have represented New Zealand in rugby ever published.

The All Blackography: The Indispensable Guide to Every All Black

Biographies & Memoirs

Upstart Press

Murdoch - The Uncapped All Black

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