Return to Rugby Land: An Expatriate in New Zealand for the Rugby World Cup

Name: Return to Rugby Land: An Expatriate in New Zealand for the Rugby World Cup
Price: 6.49 EUR
Author: David Scott
ISBN: 9780957395220

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David Scott

LightwoodBooks
Paru le : 30/08/2015

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After living overseas for forty years an expatriate returns to New Zealand for the 2011 Rugby World Cup to report on matches and travel around the islands. But Return to Rugby Land is about more than the games and the scenery. Sport's place in society, especially New Zealand society, is explored. The myths, psyche and anxieties of a small nation are examined. Comfortable shibboleths, including about Maori and women, are questioned.
'Return to Rugby Land' is a personal account that offers a broad understanding of New Zealand, and the game that is at its heart, historically and now. Sometimes challenging and provocative, the writing is also insightful and heartfelt. A thinking sports' follower's book.

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Date de parution : 30/08/2015
Editeur : LightwoodBooks
ISBN : 978-0-9573952-2-0
EAN : 9780957395220
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Biographie de David Scott

David Scott grew up in New Zealand, playing rugby and cricket. After leaving New Zealand in his twenties he has lived in Australia, the United States, Britain, Ireland and Sri Lanka, and travelled widely in Europe and South Asia. He has worked on farms, in factories, on race tracks and in the City of London. As well he has spent periods working full-time as a left-wing activist. As a sports journalist he has covered three Rugby World Cups and All Black tours to Europe.
He has reported on Black Cap cricket tours and a one-day world cup tournament in Sri Lanka. He and his wife, Sriya, now live either at their house in the Colombo beach suburb of Mount Lavinia or up on their land near her home village. These days he keeps himself busy writing, teaching English, helping out on the land and doing his uncle duties with their nieces and nephews.