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Category : Transportation, Automotive
Languages : en
Pages : 644
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On the Wings of Mercury
Author: Lorraine Moller
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ISBN: 9781877361999
Category : Marathon running
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Lorraine Moller is one of New Zealand's greatest women distance runners. Four times an Olympic contender, winner of three Avon Women's Marathons, winner of the Boston Marathon, three times the winner of the Osaka international Ladies' Marathon, and a Commonwealth Games medallist, she is indeed a living legend of the running world. Lorraine began running barefoot with her father near her home in Putaruru and went on to win a bronze medal in the marathon at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympic Games. Here, in her own words, Lorraine looks back on a golden era of athletics in New Zealand and the personalities she ran with - Arthur Lydiard, Dick Quax, rod Dixon, Anne Audain, Allison roe and others. She traces her development as a world-class competitor and reveals the strategies and coping techniques that took her to the world stage. A longtime battler for equality and professionalism in distance running, Lorraine is upfront about her struggles with officialdom. With the roman god Mercury as her guide, Lorraine competed with immense courage and determination at the highest level. Here is a candid, personal story of an extraordinary life: intense, insightful and highly entertaining.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781877361999
Category : Marathon running
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Lorraine Moller is one of New Zealand's greatest women distance runners. Four times an Olympic contender, winner of three Avon Women's Marathons, winner of the Boston Marathon, three times the winner of the Osaka international Ladies' Marathon, and a Commonwealth Games medallist, she is indeed a living legend of the running world. Lorraine began running barefoot with her father near her home in Putaruru and went on to win a bronze medal in the marathon at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympic Games. Here, in her own words, Lorraine looks back on a golden era of athletics in New Zealand and the personalities she ran with - Arthur Lydiard, Dick Quax, rod Dixon, Anne Audain, Allison roe and others. She traces her development as a world-class competitor and reveals the strategies and coping techniques that took her to the world stage. A longtime battler for equality and professionalism in distance running, Lorraine is upfront about her struggles with officialdom. With the roman god Mercury as her guide, Lorraine competed with immense courage and determination at the highest level. Here is a candid, personal story of an extraordinary life: intense, insightful and highly entertaining.
Motor West
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Category : Transportation, Automotive
Languages : en
Pages : 644
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Publisher:
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Category : Transportation, Automotive
Languages : en
Pages : 644
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Motor West and California Motor
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Languages : en
Pages : 886
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Languages : en
Pages : 886
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Mercury
Author: Lesley-Ann Jones
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451663951
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
The lead vocalist for the iconic rock band Queen, Freddie Mercury's unmatched skills as a songwriter and his flamboyant showmanship made him a superstar and Queen a household name. The author, a rock journalist, conducted more than a hundred interviews with key figures in Mercury's life, to offer this account of one man's legendary life in the spotlight and behind the scenes.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451663951
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
The lead vocalist for the iconic rock band Queen, Freddie Mercury's unmatched skills as a songwriter and his flamboyant showmanship made him a superstar and Queen a household name. The author, a rock journalist, conducted more than a hundred interviews with key figures in Mercury's life, to offer this account of one man's legendary life in the spotlight and behind the scenes.
Mercury in Retrograde
Author: Paula Froelich
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416598944
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
From the Page Six reporter, a debut novel in which the lives of three New York women intersect when they move into the same Soho apartment building.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416598944
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
From the Page Six reporter, a debut novel in which the lives of three New York women intersect when they move into the same Soho apartment building.
Aeneidea
Author: James Henry
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108063918
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 871
Book Description
This monumental multi-volume commentary on the Aeneid, published between 1873 and 1892, remains a landmark in Virgilian scholarship.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108063918
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 871
Book Description
This monumental multi-volume commentary on the Aeneid, published between 1873 and 1892, remains a landmark in Virgilian scholarship.
Copies of Proclamations
Author: Canada. Department of the Secretary of State
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Category : War and emergency powers
Languages : en
Pages : 1038
Book Description
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Category : War and emergency powers
Languages : en
Pages : 1038
Book Description
A descriptive catalogue of a general collection
Author: Rudolf Erich Raspe
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5877634925
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 565
Book Description
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5877634925
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 565
Book Description
Air Force and Space Digest
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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 1460
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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 1460
Book Description
Gods and Heroes
Author: R.E Francillon
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752340223
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Gods and Heroes by R.E Francillon
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752340223
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Gods and Heroes by R.E Francillon