All Blacks: The Authorized Portrait

by Ron Palenski

An epic commemorative coffee table book on New Zealand’s sporting rugby pride, the All Blacks.

With the endorsement of the New Zealand Rugby Union, this is the most complete commemorative book on the pride of New Zealand, the All Blacks ever published. It traces the history of rugby's most notable and most successful team over more than a century entirely in pictures. Drawing on archives and contemporary sources in New Zealand and overseas, the All Blacks are seen like they have never been seen before. Filled with action shots and rare photos from the archives, many never seen before.

416 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

Palenski established the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame and administered it until his recent illness. He was a competitive cyclist.

In the 2003 New Year Honours, Palenski was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to sports journalism. In November 2022, he was inducted into the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame. He wrote about 50 books, mostly on sport.

Palenski died in Dunedin of cancer on 22 August 2023, at the age of 78.

abridged from Wikipedia, city of death from a news article on Stuff.