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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. The story of 15 young footballers from the Mornington Football Club in Victoria who drowned after a boating accident in 1892. Leading sports journalist Paul Kennedy investigates this tragedy. Part of his assessment places it within the historical context of the 1890s economic depression, and the resilience of a generation of Australians who battled hard times. Great read about a little known tragedy in Australia's sporting history. In 1892, 15 players from a football team on Victoria's Mornington peninsula were returning from a game when their small yacht capsized in a squall. All were lost, including three brothers from the minister's family. Only 4 of the bodies were ever found. The author builds a compelling picture of life in a small Australian community near the turn of the century and the burgeoning importance of sport as a bond within the town, and the devastation when a massive tragedy strikes at the youth of the community. Really moving book and great story about the beginnings of Australia's obsession with sport. no reviews | add a review
Fifteen Young Menis the true story of a doomed adventure. It was a maritime tragedy that unfolded one sad, dark hour at a time. A cold, cruelly blustery night revealing - with agonising slowness - that fifteen young men of the Mornington Football Club would never make it home. As dawn broke and families began to mourn, a nation was to learn the full extent of one of the world's worst sporting disasters. The sinking of the Processin catastrophically rough seas off Victoria's Mornington Peninsula in 1892, with the loss of all on board, horrified Australia. 'Such an accident has no parallel in our land's history,' reported The Argus. Yet somehow, for more than a century, this calamitous event slipped from Australia's consciousness. In Fifteen Young Men, journalist Paul Kennedy reveals the stories behind the tragedy. In his compelling evocation of a spirited Australian town on the cusp of a new century, he captures the trauma of families and friends suffering almost unbearable loss, but also the irrepressible optimism of the times, and the mateship, love and resilience that would come to define a budding nation. No library descriptions found. |
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