More Important Than Life or Death: Inside the Best of Australian Sport

Herausgeber: Fitzsimons, Peter; Growden, Greg

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Allen & Unwin
• Seitenzahl: 359
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781743313190
• ISBN-10: 1743313195
• Artikelnr.: 39615849

Autorenporträt

Peter FitzSimons is a journalist with the Sydney Morning Herald and Sun-Herald and a former national representative rugby union player who is passionate about sport and sportswriting. He is also a regular TV commentator, a former radio presenter (with Mike Carlton on Radio 2UE) and a best-selling author of nearly twenty books. These included Tobruk, Kokoda, Batavia, and biographies of Nancy Wake, Kim Beazley, Nene King, Sir Douglas Mawson, Nick Farr-Jones, Steve Waugh and John Eales. Greg Growden worked for the Sydney Morning Herald for 34 years, and was chief rugby correspondent between 1987-2012, covering hundreds of Test matches around the world. During this time he also wrote about a multitude of sports including rugby league, cricket, AFL, and even once had the main race at a Wentworth Park greyhound meeting named after him. He is now a rugby expert for ESPN and scrum.com. He has written 11 books, including A Wayward Genius, which was described by The Guardian's Frank Keating as among the 100 best sporting books of the twentieth century.