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This is the story of Tom Wills - flawed genius, sporting libertine, fearless leader and agitator, and the man most often credited with creating the game we now know as Australian Rules football. Sent to the strict British Rugby School in 1850 at fourteen, Tom returned as a worldly young man whose cricket prowess quickly captured the hearts of Melburnians. But away from the adoring crowds, in the desolation of the Queensland outback, he experienced first-hand the devastating effects of racial tension when his father was murdered in the biggest massacre of Europeans by Aboriginal people. Yet five years later, Tom coached the first Aboriginal cricket team. Tom Wills lived hard and fast, challenging authority on and off the field. But when his physical talents began to fade, the psychological demons that alcohol and adrenaline had kept at bay surged to the fore, driving him to commit the most brutal of suicides. He was forty-four and destitute. Greg de Moore has carefully pieced together Tom's life, giving us an extraordinary portrait of the life and times of one of our first sporting heroes, a man who lived by his own rules and whose contribution to Australian history has endured for more than 150 years.

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Publisher
Allen & Unwin
ISBN-13
9781742375984
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Book Title
Tom Wills: First Wild Man of Australian Sport
Author
Greg De Moore
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Rugby, History
Publication Year
2011
Type
Textbook
Genre
Biographies & True Stories, Sports
Number of Pages
396 Pages

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198mm
Item Width
128mm
Item Weight
378g

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Greg De Moore
Country/Region of Manufacture
Australia

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