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Article: The evolution of Australian cricket literature: with emphasis on the period up until 1900.(Critical Essay)
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- M A R G I N: life & letters in early Australia
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- April 1, 2005
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Sir Robert Menzies, the former Australian Prime Minister and avid cricket enthusiast once said 'cricket is a summer game for the player and the observer, but a winter game for the reader and thinker who sits by his fireside and evokes unperishable memories'.
For the cricket purist, one can play the game and should one have an all inspiring passion, collect the game in the form of 'cricket literature' and 'cricket memorabilia'.
According to Whitehead (in Science and the Modern World, Cambridge, 1929, pages 93-94):
It is literature that the concrete outlook of a country receives its
expression. Accordingly it is to literature that we must ...