Winter Colours: Changing Seasons in World Rugby (Mainstream sport)

by Donald Mc Rae (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1999

  $3.27

  Through intimate interviews with the sport's greatest contemporary icons, Donald McRae examines how rugby is played and revered in different countries. In this new and updated edition of a sporting classic, Martin Johnson, Brian O'Driscoll, Jonny Wilkinson, Sean Fitzpatrick, Francois Pienaar, Jonah Lomu and Gregor Townsend are just some of the stars who help McRae reveal the distinctive colours and cultures of world rugby.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1998

  $3.27

  This volume explores how rugby is played and revered in different countries and cultures. The book unfolds in the space of two years, from September 1996 to August 1998, as McRae travels across the hemispheres, moving from Britain and France to the New World, comparing the game at club, provincial and national levels. The book begins in the South Africa of McRae's youth where rugby was a byword for Apartheid. It covers the tours of the All Blacks and The British Lions in the new South Africa, crosses France, Britain and Ireland in the company of the Springboks and Wallabies, and ends up in New Zealand and Australia with the English and Welsh teams.