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Palenski, Ron,

Our game : New Zealand rugby at 150 / Ron Palenski. - Auckland : Upstart Press Ltd, 2020 - 231 pages : photographs, portraits ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references.

The year 2020 marks the 150th anniversary of the first game of rugby in Nelson; this book celebrates 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, the teams, the provinces, the trophies, everything that helped make the game what it is, from the first in the horse and buggy days to the latest in the days of ultra-modern technology. It will talk of players who no one living saw play; and it will talk of players who are recognised wherever they go in the widening rugby world. And who can talk of players and resist speculating who the greatest of all might have been? It's opinions and speculation that make up some of the enduring appeal of the game New Zealanders are (mostly) better at than anyone else.

ISBN: 9781988516981 1988516986

LCCN: 2017392548

Nat. Bib. No.: GBC0G4317 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 017456709 Uk 019984485 Uk

Subjects--Corporate Names:
All Blacks (Rugby team)--History.
All Blacks (Rugby team)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Rugby Union football--History.--New Zealand
Rugby Union football players--New Zealand--Biography.
Whutupōro.
Kaitākaro whutupōro.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Biographies.
History.

LC Class. No.: GV945.9.N45 / P35 2015

Dewey Class. No.: 796.333