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Lloyd Jones
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Pages: 178 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0140296948
Pub: Penguin Books (NZ)
Pub date: 2000-08-02
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1281409
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This little book ficticiously chronicles the early tour of the famous All Blacks (known as such due to a newspaper typo) to Britain in the early 20th century. It is an easy read and no doubt would interest all rugby union fans. The tour details fascinate and the fame the team rises to could not be paralleled in Britain today for any modern sporting icon(s). The narrator, one of the squad members, succeeds in revealing his, and the teams response to unrivalled attention and fame, showing how ordinary farming lads from New Zealand initially revel in but subsequently grow weary of, and eventually resent the god they have made of themselves.
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