ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 2000
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Winner of the Tasmania Prize and the Deutz Medal for fiction this is a singular melding of history and imagination.

In August 1905 a party of young men boarded a ship for England. Among them were four farmers, two bootmakers and a boatbuilder. They set out from Auckland, never dreaming they would conquer the world. By December they were the `wonderful All Blacks` who had beaten Yorkshire, England and Ireland.

They were a tribe far from home, weary, bedazzled, a little lost-but the world showed them wonders: the Eiffel Tower, snow on Tierra del Fuego, English lords, Consomme Sarah Bernhardt. America! But years later, it was something else that remained indelible. A feeling shared, grave and simple, that survived all the acclaim.

`It`s a book about blokes, bluff outside, but discerning inside, blokes who speak poetry, the way we all would speak if we could put our finest feelings into words…It`s a beautiful book: complete, strong and poetic.` Bulletin