Home :: Just Tassie Books :: Real Tennis in Hobart

Real Tennis in Hobart

Real Tennis in Hobart
 
(0 reviews)  

Real Tennis in Hobart - the Pioneers, is a history of the introduction of real (or royal) tennis to Australia, beginning with the establishment by Samuel Smith Travers of the court on Davey St, Hobart in 1874 and his publication A Treatise on Tennis in 1875.

The book also includes: an account of Australia's first professional tennis player, Thomas Stone; a list of about 1600 people who visited the Hobart court in its first decade; and shipboard diaries from voyages to Australia from England in the 1870s.

Softcover book
Published 2021
152-pages
Illustrated
SKU SKU19702
Quantity in stock 1 item(s) available
Weight 0.65 kg
Author Richard Travers
ISBN 9780648278740
 
Our price: AUD 39.95
including GST 10.00 % ( AUD 3.63 )
Click here to be notified of price drops of this item
 
Quantity (1 available)
Fonthill - used book Lottah and the Anchor Ferries of Tasmania - used
AUD 45.00
AUD 59.00
AUD 42.50
 
The Indomitable Mr Cotham - Missioner, Convict Chaplain & Monk Pride of the Port - the Watermen of Hobart Town The Sherburds
AUD 55.95
AUD 24.00
AUD 49.95
 
Boston, Mitchell & Liberator in Australian Service John Bowen's Hobart Official History of Australia in the War of 1914 - 1918
AUD 40.00
AUD 36.00
AUD 595.00
There have been no reviews