Sporting Life. Sport In Old Australia

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Publisher: The Five Mile Press
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2000
Edition: First Edition

Description: 94 pages. Ex-Library. Book is in general good condition. There is some light reading wear present, but still a presentable copy.

Publishers Description: THE BIRTH OF A SPORTING NATION - To know Australia today, we must understand its past - the people, the pastimes, the pioneering spirit and the intense feeling of national pride. In times of change and a new future, The Centenary Collection looks back on 100 years of Old Australia. The well-known sporting prowess of Australians had its beginnings in the earliest days of European settlement, and this intriguing collection of photographs takes us back to the sporting fads and fashions of the past. Many of the popular early sports reflect the essentials of daily life, such as transport (horse-racing, running, boating and the bicycle craze), food (shooting, fishing, dog-racing) and work (shearing, ploughing, wood-chopping and load carrying). With increased leisure came the possibility of organizing teams and adopting sports form England, the founding nation of most modern sports. There were variations on the football field, but we followed the lead of the Old Country in such sports as tennis, golf, cricket and even hunting with hounds. Sporting Life gives a wonderful glimpse of people enjoying themselves in the Australian air and sunshine.

ISBN: 9781865032979