The Game of Our Lives: The Story of Rugby and New Zealand - And How They've Shaped Each Other

Published by Viking, Penguin Books (NZ) Ltd, Auckland, 1996, 138 pages.

In the 1940s it was said by a New Zealander that Rugby was the very best of pleasures, religion, desire and fulfilment all in one. Here is the story of how rugby came to be embraced so passionately by a nation, and how, over time, that embrace has slowly loosened.