Book Details
Title: And The Crowd Went Wild; Sporting Days That Thrilled A Nation
Author: Ian Heads and Gary Lester
Illustrator: N/A
Publisher: Playright Publishing Pty Ltd.
Year: 2010
Impression/Edition: N/A
Cover: Hardcover with Dust Jacket
Pages: 326
Dimensions: L28.5cm x W23.5cm x D3.5cm
Weight: 1.9kg
ISBN: 978 0 9806 6665 6
Battle Scars:
Very good read condition. Hardcover with a Dust Jacket. Dust Jacket has some minimal wear to edges and corners as pictured below, with minor scuffing. The hardcover itself is of silver boards and is well preserved. Slight rubbing of corners and ends of the spine. The binding is firm and intact. Pages appear to be in good condition.
Don't forget to check the photos below for a visual and make sure you are happy prior to purchase. Happy to answer questions if there is information missing.
Book Content:
Blurb -
"And the Crowd Went Wild celebrates the spectacularly colourful saga of Australian sport's first 200 years. It is both an homage to Governor Lachlan Macquarie and the moment of formal sport's beginning (October 15, 1810) - and a joyous, sometimes startling narrative of the rise and rise of Aussie sport in the two centuries since.
Overlooking all in the telling is the calm figure of Macquarie, the man who gave the first nod for an official sporting event to take its place in the Australian community. The heroes and heroines are the men and women (and, now and then, horses) who perform their magic through the pages of the story. The theme is 'famous days' and the cast is glittering - champions from sports' past present and, in some cases, future (some still very much on the path of brilliant careers).
If Don Bradman is perhaps captain and Shane Gould vice captain - the team at their command is limitless in ability. This is not a book that sets out on any definitive quest to name 'the greatest'. Rather, it is in keeping with the Macquarie tradition: his aim in providing patronage to the Hude Park race carnival of 1810 was to provide an event that could be uplifting, unifying and beneficial for the still-new colony at a fractured time. Great sport and the shared experience have that effect.
It was on such a foundation that authors Ian Heads and Gary Lester, together with editorial manager Geoff Armstrong, set out to reduce an initial bank of 200 or so possible themes down to the 70 stories we have here. The guideline was that the chosen stories, either from home or abroad, would be of sporting days that were genuinely unifying and thrilling -for community, city state or nation. The tales are told with freshness, often with elements of true revelation - the result of a vast interview-and-research exercise - and they are illuminated by brilliant early illustrations, and photos that capture 'the moment'. The result is a book that in a notable year is a valuable addition to the literature of Australian sport - one that is both an education...and a rousing entertainment."
Book Details
Title: And The Crowd Went Wild; Sporting Days That Thrilled A Nation
Author: Ian Heads and Gary Lester
Illustrator: N/A
Publisher: Playright Publishing Pty Ltd.
Year: 2010
Impression/Edition: N/A
Cover: Hardcover with Dust Jacket
Pages: 326
Dimensions: L28.5cm x W23.5cm x D3.5cm
Weight: 1.9kg
ISBN: 978 0 9806 6665 6
Battle Scars:
Very good read condition. Hardcover with a Dust Jacket. Dust Jacket has some minimal wear to edges and corners as pictured below, with minor scuffing. The hardcover itself is of silver boards and is well preserved. Slight rubbing of corners and ends of the spine. The binding is firm and intact. Pages appear to be in good condition.
Don't forget to check the photos below for a visual and make sure you are happy prior to purchase. Happy to answer questions if there is information missing.
Book Content:
Blurb -
"And the Crowd Went Wild celebrates the spectacularly colourful saga of Australian sport's first 200 years. It is both an homage to Governor Lachlan Macquarie and the moment of formal sport's beginning (October 15, 1810) - and a joyous, sometimes startling narrative of the rise and rise of Aussie sport in the two centuries since.
Overlooking all in the telling is the calm figure of Macquarie, the man who gave the first nod for an official sporting event to take its place in the Australian community. The heroes and heroines are the men and women (and, now and then, horses) who perform their magic through the pages of the story. The theme is 'famous days' and the cast is glittering - champions from sports' past present and, in some cases, future (some still very much on the path of brilliant careers).
If Don Bradman is perhaps captain and Shane Gould vice captain - the team at their command is limitless in ability. This is not a book that sets out on any definitive quest to name 'the greatest'. Rather, it is in keeping with the Macquarie tradition: his aim in providing patronage to the Hude Park race carnival of 1810 was to provide an event that could be uplifting, unifying and beneficial for the still-new colony at a fractured time. Great sport and the shared experience have that effect.
It was on such a foundation that authors Ian Heads and Gary Lester, together with editorial manager Geoff Armstrong, set out to reduce an initial bank of 200 or so possible themes down to the 70 stories we have here. The guideline was that the chosen stories, either from home or abroad, would be of sporting days that were genuinely unifying and thrilling -for community, city state or nation. The tales are told with freshness, often with elements of true revelation - the result of a vast interview-and-research exercise - and they are illuminated by brilliant early illustrations, and photos that capture 'the moment'. The result is a book that in a notable year is a valuable addition to the literature of Australian sport - one that is both an education...and a rousing entertainment."
