Through intimate interviews with the sport's greatest contemporary icons, Donald McRae examines how rugby is played and revered in different countries. In this new and updated edition of a sporting classic, Martin Johnson, Brian O'Driscoll, Jonny Wilkinson, Sean Fitzpatrick, Francois Pienaar, Jonah Lomu and Gregor Townsend are just some of the stars who help McRae reveal the distinctive colours and cultures of world rugby.
Title: Winter Colours: Changing Seasons in World Rugby
Author: McRae, Donald
ISBN: 9781840182477
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Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
Publication Date: 1999-10-07
Number of Pages: 512
Weight: 0.4583 kg
Simply the best book on rugby union ever written The Guardian A memorable, epic journey through the sport Sunday Times A work that stands head and shoulders above any rival The Times This is the best book on rugby to hit the shelves since Stephen Jones's Endless Winter ... McRae spent a year rubbing shoulders with the world's heroic rugby figures ... he achieves levels of intimacy that elude many others The Independent Enthralling - a book which ranges like a loose forward, grips like a hooker entering a five-metre scrum and is told with the guile of a French three-quarter The Herald