This reference work contains 265 anecdotes relating to all major sports played in Australia. It offers a kaleidoscopic history of Australian sport, capturing its essential humour, poignancy and heroism. While many anecdotes celebrate sport, others record its less positive aspects: drug-taking, debilitating injury, notorious failure and crass officialdom. It also features entries on all the legendary characters of Australian sport.
- ISBN10 0195534689
- ISBN13 9780195534689
- Publish Date 25 October 1993
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 May 2000
- Publish Country AU
- Publisher Oxford University Press Australia
- Imprint OUP Australia and New Zealand
- Format Hardcover (UK Trade)
- Pages 296
- Language English