Two Hundred Years of Australian Sport: Glorious Obsession

The story of 200 Years of Australian Sport, A Glorious Obsession, starts virtually with the arrival of Captain Arthur Phillip and the First Fleet. It is about Australia's Grand Passion -- the enduring love affair between a country and the games it plays. The book is the result of intensive, painstaking research by authors Ian Heads and Gary Lester, who set their sights on producing a work which would capture in words and the spectacular photographs and paintings available, the broad sweep of an astonishing story. It is a book bursting with characters, colour, and action -- breathtaking in scope and detail as it tells all the great stories of Australia's sporting 200 years.