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Condizione: Good. 8vo softcover 252pp Good+, cover creased. Steve Menzies has played more games at the top level of Australian rugby league, and scored more tries, than any other forward in history. He is second on the all-time appearance list, within striking distance of the record. Through 16 years at the coalface he has been…an exemplary performer; talented and committed on the field, respectful and respected off it. This book tells the story not just of Steve âThe Beaver' Menzies, but of the tumultuous period in the game that has seen enormous change. When Beaver started as a teenager back in 1993, it was a simpler game with a more relaxed culture. With the arrival of Super League, big money, suffocating media scrutiny and diminishing club loyalty, rugby league became in many ways a different game altogether. This book paints the story of Steve Menzies' journey through that change. Of his adaptability and his loyalty to one club. Team mates from Hasler and Toovey to Orofrd and Kennedy, opponents from Fittler and Clyde to Johns and Lockyer. âThe Beaver' has played with and against the best over two decades. And his partnership with mercurial Cliffy Lyons was legendary. This is a story of not just matches won and lost, but a picture of the future of a game that has occupied all of Menzies' adult life.
Altre immaginiLingua: Inglese
Editore: Bantam Press, a division of Transworld Publishers, London, England, United Kingdom, 2002
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Aggiungi al carrelloHardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. 1st Edition. As new condition ruby red linen boards with gold spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Author Dedication; List of Maps and Diagrams; List of Plates; Acknowledgments; Preliminary Page…Quote by Admiral Zheng He at Ch'ang Lo in 1431; Introduction; Epilogue: The Chinese Legacy; 1. Appendices: Chinese Circumnavigation of the World 1421-3, 2. Eyewitness Diaries, 3. Key Charts, 4. The Determination of Longitude, 5. Further Information on Website; Notes; Select Bibliography and Index. Profusely illustrated with four sections of color photographic plates, black-and-white drawings and maps interspersed throughout the volume plus color illustrated front and rear endpapers. "On 8 March 1421 the largest fleet in the world had ever seen sailed from its base in China. The ships, huge junks nearly five hundred feet long and built from the finest teak, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di's loyal eunuch admirals. Their mission was to 'to proceed all the way to the end of the eath to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas' and unite the whole world in Confucian harmony. Their journey would last over two years and circle the globe. When they returned Zhu Di lost control and China was beginning its long, self-imposed isolation from the world it had so recently embraced. The great ships rotted at their moorings and the records of their journeys were destroyed. Lost was the knowledge that Chinese ships had reached America seventy years before Columbus and circumnavigated the globe a century before Magellan. They had also discovered Antarctica, reached Australia three hundred and fifty years before Cook and solved the problem of longitude three hundred years before the Europeans. Gavin Menzies has spent fifteen years tracing the astonishing voyages of the Chinese fleet. Now, in a fascinating historical detective story, he shares the remarkable account of his discoveries and the incontrovertible evidence to support them. His compelling narrative pulls together ancient maps, precise navigational knowledge, astronomy and the surviving accounts of Chinese explorers and the later Eurropean navigators. It brings to light the artifacts and inscribed stones left behind by the emperor's fleet, the evidence of sunken junks along its route and the ornate votive offerings left by the Chinese sailors wherever they landed, in thanks to Shao Lin, goddess of the sea. 1421: The Year China Discovered the World is the story of a remarkable journey of discovery that rewrites our understanding of history. Our knowledge of world exploration as it has been commonly acceptd for centuries musts now be revised. 1421 is destined to become a classic work of historical detection." - from the inner front jacket flap. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Gavin Menzies (Royal Navy Submarine Commanding Officer, retired) was born in 1937 in China, where he spent the first two years of his life. He joined the Royal Navy in 1953 and served in submarines from 1959 to 1970. As a junior officer he sailed the world in the wake of Columbus, Dias, Cabral and Vasco da Gama. When in command of HMS Rorqual (1968-1970), he sailed the routes pioneered by Magellan and Captain Cook. Since leaving the Royal Navy, he has returned to China and the Far East many times, and in the course of researching 1421 he has visited 120 countries, over 900 museums and libraries and every major seaport of the late Middle Ages." - from the rear inner jacket flap. Rawlings, Steve (jacket image); Raw, Stephen (calligraphy); O'Malley, Heathcliff (author photograph) (illustratore).
