SKU: B-000669

Edwin Flack The Lion Of Athens

Author: Peter Sweeney

Special Features: Illustrated, Inscribed

Condition: The cover has light scuffing, and corner wear. The front inner cover has the name of the previous owner. No other writing. Light page edge rubbing. Pages are clean and tidy. Tight binding.

Biography & Memoir Sport & Recreation Australiana

Australia Australian History Field Sports Olympic Games

Peter Sweeney’s Edwin Flack: The Lion of Athens tracks Australia’s first Olympic champion from rural Victoria to the 1896 Athens Games, blending sports biography with vivid colonial history for readers of every age. The 288-page paperback is generously illustrated, bringing early track-and-field heroics and Melbourne life at the turn of the century to light.

This copy carries a neat gift inscription on the fly-leaf (not author-signed) and shows only light cover scuffs and corner rubs; pages remain crisp, bright and tightly bound. It is an inviting reading copy that sits well on any Australian sport or history shelf.

Perfect for fans of Olympic memoirs, local history buffs and YA readers curious about the origins of Australia’s Games tradition.

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