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Jack Lovelock - Athlete and Doctor by Graeme Woodfield
$16.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Jack Lovelock remains one of New Zealand's greatest sportsmen, the diminutive figure in black who, "running in a rapture", won the Olympic 1500m gold medal in world record time in front of Hitler in 1936. Despite his fame, Lovelock has been an enigmatic, elusive figure. This prompted fellow Timaru Boys' ...Show more
No Ordinary Man - The Remarkable Life of Arthur Porritt by Graeme Woodfield; Joseph Romanos
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
DoP - November 2008, Wellington 360pp A biography of a multi-faceted New Zealander who achieved great things in several spheres. Among his achievements: an Olympic sprint medallist in the 1924 Olympics. A widely-respected surgeon, who became president of the Royal College of Surgeons and the British Med ...Show more
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