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The Citypack map covers the city in detail, while the Citypack guide gives you just the information you need to experience the best of
The author: Anne Matthews was born in England and emigrated to Sydney in 1979.
Paperback - 360 pages 3rd edition (October 1997)
Beautifully situated on a magnificent harbor, Sydney is Australia's most exciting and stylish city. This indispensable guide will help visitors on any budget discover Sydney's many attractions from the historic Rocks and the lively neighborhoods to the famous beaches and wonderful national parks on the city's doorstep. Full color. 18 maps.
Packed with the latest, most interesting, and most practical information on the Land Down Under, this guide provides everything the traveler needs before, during and after a trip to Sydney.
Updated to include information on the 1996 Summer Games in Atlanta, plus details about the upcoming Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, and Sydney's games in 2000, this book includes a list of every Olympic medal winner since the first modern games.
Full of fascinating facts and sensational statistics from Olympic events throughout history, each page of this panoramic guide to the sights and spectacles of the world's favorite athletic competition has ingenious flaps, wheels and pull-tabs for readers to send gymnasts spinning through the air, swimmers whishing through water and runners leaping over hurdles. Comes complete with a gold medal for readers to wear and imagine what it would be like to be an Olympic star. Full color.
Dr. Jacques Rogge, International Olympic Committee
From the Author
In the eight years I spent planning and developing the Olympic Village,
I learned more than I wanted to know about the vulnerabilities that are
all but inevitable in an enterprise as big as the Olympic Games. Those
security vulnerabilities, of course, are the reason why I chose to delay
the release of The Last Olympics until after the Games. Maybe it
was a bad idea from a marketing standpoint, but my job as Village Mayor--and
the safety of those 15,000 athletes and officials under my care--was
more important. But I've also been interested to see other vulnerabilities,
of a non-security nature, in the Olympic structure. (If you read the book,
you'll know what I mean.) The Last Olympics has upset a lot of powerful
people, who I guess just can't handle the hard, cold facts.
The man universally credited with reviving the games is Baron Pierre de Coubertin, believed to be solely responsible for the vision behind Olympiad I in Athens in 1896. Now, in The Modern Olympics, classicist David C. Young challenges this view, revealing that Coubertin was only the last and most successful of many contributors to the dream of the modern Olympics. Based on thirteen years of research among previously neglected documents, Young's reconstruction of the fascinating and almost unknown history of the Olympic revival movement in the nineteenth century includes two long-forgotten Olympiads - one in London in 1866 and another in Athens in 1870. He traces the idea for the modern Olympics to a pair of poems published by an obscure Greek poet in 1833 and follows the sinuous tale to the small village of Wenlock, England, where W. P. Brookes held local Olympiads, founded the British Olympic committee, and attempted to organize an international Olympics. Young contends that Coubertin was inspired by Brookes and that, until the two met in 1890, Coubertin had no interest at all in reviving the Olympic Games. Instead of a singular vision, Coubertin's contribution to the founding of the modern Olympics was the zeal he brought to transforming an idea that had evolved over decades into the reality of Olympiad I - vividly described in the book's last chapter - and of all the Olympic Games held since.
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