Black pearls : the aboriginal and islander sports hall of fame / Colin Tatz (author) ; Paul Tatz (author).
Publication details: Canberra, ACT : Aboriginal Studies Press, 2018.Edition: 3rd EditionDescription: vii, 387 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 27 cmISBN:- 1925302954 (paperback)
- 9781925302950 (paperback)
- Sports & Active outdoor recreation
- Torres Strait Islanders
- Athletes, Aboriginal Australian
- Sports
- Athletes, Aboriginal Australian -- Biography
- Torres Strait Islanders -- Biography
- Sports -- Australia
- Athletes, Aboriginal Australian
- Aboriginal Australians -- Sports
- Torres Strait Islanders -- Sports
- Sports & Active outdoor recreation
- Australia
- Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander content
- Australian
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| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Non-Fiction | 796.089 TAT | Available | 068327 |
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Evonne Goolagong, Cathy Freeman, Nova Peris, Lionel Rose, Artie Beetson, Polly Farmer are just a few of our Australian sporting heroes who, since the mid-1880s, have helped shape Australia's identity as a great sporting nation. They, along with 261 other individual sporting greats, are showcased here in this new edition of the Aboriginal and Islander Sports Hall of Fame. Spanning 36 sports across a period of 166 years, Black Pearls presents some of our Olympic heroes, superb sportswomen, football giants, boxing legends, lightning sprinters and more - from darts champions to world class weightlifters and woodchoppers. Black Pearls is more than a sports book. It reveals a history of inclusion and exclusion, about Aboriginal determination in the face of enormous obstacles, and resilience in overcoming remoteness, discriminatory laws, incarceration on isolated reserves, and opponents in a variety of sports arenas.
