general books Sport, including hunting

Beez (J.) et. al. FUSBAAL/ FOOTBALL, ein spiel - viele welten/ one game - many worlds
240 pp., 4to., b/w & colour illus., hardback, Stuttgart, 2006. R450
Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Munich City Museum during the 2006. Includes essays by writers from the fields of science, sport, literature and journalism:
"Football as the 'Clash' of World-Views" and "Football as Politics with Different Means" by Stefan Eisenhofer,
"Soccer and Democracy in South Africa, from post-election honeymoon to World Cup" by Fiona Rankin-Smith,
"Memento Mori, the stadium as a holy place" by Christiane Lambert & Barbara Rusch,
"Football is East African Political Caricature" by Jigal Beez,
"Beckham Meets Buddha" by Patricia Müller, and much more.

Text in English & German.
Canale (N.) SNAKES IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN, memoirs of a sportswriter
328 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2010. R176
The memoirs of sports journalist Norman Canale, who worked for various South African newspapers, including the Rand Daily Mail. the Sunday Times and the Sunday Express, and later as a freelance sports and news feature writer and columnist. Includes a selection of the best newspaper and magazine articles written by Norman Canale in the course of his career.

"Norman Canale is the Tom Wolfe of South African sportswriting" Dan Retief
Carlin (J.) INVICTUS, Nelson Mandela and the game that made a nation
274 pp., illus., paperback, Reprint, London, 2008 (2009). R150
Journalist John Carlin explores how Nelson Mandela set out to woo white South Afticans and used the 1995 Rugby World Cup to finally win their hearts. This book, now a film, was first published under the title "Playing the Enemy".

"The train of evetns leading up to what has been called South Africa's epiphany has long been crying our for a multilayered account and it is to John Carlin's eternal credit that he has written it. This is not so much a sporting volume as a wonderfully crafted and beautifully written work of modern political history." Matthew Syed, The Times

John Carlin spent 1989-1995 in South Africa as the Independent newspaper's correspondent.
Claase (L.A.) CAUGHT OUT, cricket match-fixing investigated
320 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2007. R165
Freelance writer and editor Laurie Claase's investigation into corruption in world cricket and the evidence against the test-playing nations, England, India, Pakistan, Australia and South Africa.
Desai (A.) ed. THE RACE TO TRANSFORM, sport in post-apartheid South Africa
271 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2010. R190
Explores the relationship between elite and grassroots sport in the context of growing economic disparities and the emergence of a black middle and super-rich class and outlines an agenda for both theory and practice in the debate about sport and transformation in South Africa.

Contributions include "'Transformation' From Above: the upside-down state of contemporary South African soccer" by Dale McKinley,
"Beyond the Nation? Colour and class in South African cricket" by Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed,
"Women's Bodies and the World of Football in South Africa" by Prishani Naidoo and Zanele Muholi, and
"Jumping Over the Hurdles: a political analysis of transformation measures in South African athletics" by Justin van der Merwe.
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