AFL Book: Urban Footy Legends Exposed
Here is a good AFL book to read if you want answers to all the questions that are asked about the history of the AFL. As you can see from the picture of the back cover, a lot of the stories that people tell can now be checked on.
The stories in the book are often told by the people who were there, so for example Brownless talks about what he was doing on the day when he happened upon the big wheat silo, and other witnesses and facts are used to determine if the stories are myths or if they actually did occur.
Buy it, borrow it, but just read it if you want to know if things really happened, or if people have been getting credit for something that never really did occur. Although you probably don't need to read the book to know for sure that Waverley was built not only in a rain belt, but in what could have been an Antarctic setting.
Here is a site with the book for sale.
The stories in the book are often told by the people who were there, so for example Brownless talks about what he was doing on the day when he happened upon the big wheat silo, and other witnesses and facts are used to determine if the stories are myths or if they actually did occur.
Buy it, borrow it, but just read it if you want to know if things really happened, or if people have been getting credit for something that never really did occur. Although you probably don't need to read the book to know for sure that Waverley was built not only in a rain belt, but in what could have been an Antarctic setting.
Urban Footy Legends Exposed - By Smarrini and Fine
Here is a site with the book for sale.
