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Book Synopsis Along Came a Swagman by : Ernie Palamarek
Download or read book Along Came a Swagman written by Ernie Palamarek and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2007-02-26 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: G'day, Mate! The awesome Australian Outback is one of the beautiful but dangerous settings for this captivating tale of murky intrigue, murder and myths! Read this fascinating tale! It's a ripper, mate! From out of the mists of Aboriginal Dreamtime, a startling discovery is made by a never-do-well Outback opal miner who hauls up a priceless archeological antiquity in a dented barrel of broken dreams. Paleontologists are astounded! One look at what he found is forever burned into the minds of those who see it, setting the stage for a devious web of deceit. Greed and lust change their lives forever! Millions of dollars are at stake! Sally Fletcher, a tall strawberry-blonde Aussie who is a TV news reporter on Vancouver Island, is at a loss for words as her world comes crashing down upon her when someone starts systematically going after her, her grandfather, and her Canadian mother. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that her Australian father is next on somebody's list. Rune Erikson is hot on the trail of a deadly trio of antiquity-stealing snakeheads who slither through the casinos Down Under! Rune wants to keep rolling sevens but the dice keep coming up snake-eyes! Andy, an Outback swagman on a self-healing walkabout through the harsh conditions of the Outback, becomes embroiled in this adventure. This fascinating third novel in a series features the somewhat-jaded but dashing Rune Erikson who rips through the Outback where hardships and timeless feats of courage are legend. Coloured by romance and eroticism, this intrigue lures Rune off his sailing ketch Valhalla at Victoria's Fisherman's Wharf into the swirling myths and legends of Dreamtime in Australia's Outback.
Book Synopsis On the Wallaby, The Diary of a Queensland Swagman by : Edward S Sorenson
Download or read book On the Wallaby, The Diary of a Queensland Swagman written by Edward S Sorenson and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'On the Wallaby, The Diary of a Queensland Swagman' is an adventure novel written in first-person perspective by Edward Sorenson. This is a plain bush yarn, relating in a humorous vein the experiences and adventures of a young man, who, finding himself stranded in Brisbane, where he knew no one, shouldered his swag and struck out into the bush to look for a job. His track from Breakfast Creek to beyond the Maranoa River, may be traced on the map, for he deals only with real places—and real people—and what he goes through is what the majority of swag men go through. Always an optimist, he sees the humor of the situations, and his narrative is embellished with details of bushcraft, and with the yarns and the fun of campfire and track.
Download or read book Hatari written by Ernie Palamarek and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jambo! Experience deepest, darkest Africa! It's the beautiful but dangerous setting for this shocking saga of one Sudanese family's staggering adversity that mirrors present-day Africa. Decimated and put into iron-clad slavery, the family is split apart and sold to the highest bidders in West Africa. Rune Erikson becomes infatuated with a beautiful South African UN worker. The seductress pulls him into a vortex of slavery and blood diamonds. Hatari, the fifth novel in a series, features the somewhat-jaded-but-dashing Rune Erikson, who desperately searches through diamond fields from Canada's frozen Arctic to steaming equatorial Africa. Rune rides camels through the shifting sands of Timbuktu, then treks through the muddy diamond pits of Congo, the beautiful port of Cape Town, the wild bushveldt of Johannesburg, the zealotry of Zimbabwe, the intrigue of Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar, and Mombasa, the nonsentient streets of Nairobi, and is initiated into the ways of the colourful warriors of the Masai Mara. Braving marauding lions, snorting hippos, stomping elephants, and soul-sapping jungle humidity, Rune fights African warlords and diamond smugglers in his quest for justice. Coloured by romance and spiced with eroticism, this adventure lures Rune off his sailing ketch, Valhalla, in Victoria's Fisherman's Wharf into the soft arms of a sizzling South African Dutch enchantress, becoming embedded in the myths and legends of tribal Africa. "Ernie Palamarek's Thundersea is an exciting debut from an author who obviously knows a thing or three about adventure." - Chapters.ca The Secret Temple of Kintamani: "I couldn't put it down!" "It was a good read!" - Reader's Domain Along Came A Swagman: "He sure has a way of using words to paint a picture." - WAMC New York's Environment Show. Amazonia: "I liked it . . . I liked it a lot!" - Reader's Domain
Book Synopsis The Secret Temple of Kintamani by : Ernie Palamarek
Download or read book The Secret Temple of Kintamani written by Ernie Palamarek and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2006-08-14 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exotic tropical island of Bali is the fabulous setting for the aftermath of the infamous BarLan Bre-X gold mine stock swindle in Borneo which is still thundering throughout South East Asia and echoing around the world. A coniving and truly-evil, Irish-Canadian stock promoter from Jakarta, Indonesia has declared bankrupcy and is on the prowl to regain his riches. He stops at nothing; his rampant greed and lust know no bounds. Murder, opium smuggling and fraud are his forte! A seductive Balinese physiotherapist nurse lost her family's fortune. Now her brother is missing from his job as a geologist at the two-mile-high Goldberg Gold Mine in New Guinea. Was he murdered? Where is his gold Ganesa icon? It's a mystery! In a state of near-collapse she has nowhere to turn! This action-packed second novel in a series features the somewhat-jaded but dashing Rune Erikson, who enters a steamy world of scintillating Balinese myths and legends. He is caught up in the middle of an adventure where the ruthless winner takes all. Rune enlists the aid of his stockbroker buddy, Logan, in a race against time where the prizes are a stolen fortune, a missing brother, and the mother lode of gold. Coloured by romance and eroticism, this intrigue entices Rune off his sailing ketch Valhalla in Victoria's Fisherman's Wharf into the arms of beguiling Asian beauties on the exotic tropical island of Bali.
Download or read book Amazonia written by Ernie Palamarek and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2003-02-13 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oi Amigo! Experience the amazing mighty Amazon! It's the steamy setting for this colourful South American tale of an old family company dealing in jungle medicinal plants. The venerable firm is corrupted by lust, corporate greed, gratuitous affluence, shady characters, and duplicitous transactions. Genetic tinkering and environmental destruction run amuck amidst the grinding subsistence life of the Amazon natives. Rune Erikson is cast as the altruistic hero as he comes to the rescue of a statuesque Brazilian heiress brutally targeted during a medical conference in Victoria. Hiding her aboard the Valhalla, Rune is love-struck. Hitching a ride with her on Dredmann Industries corporate jet, it delivers them unto the evil Dr. Manglar. Bianca Penthesilia Monteiro fights back against Gunther Dredmann, known by his victims as Dr. Death, when her family's business is ruthlessly subjected to a hostile takeover. Fast Eddie, an old buddy of Rune's who has fallen into the bottle, teams up to help with his Grumman Goose flying boat. An ancient family enigma is revealed when a five-hundred-year-old Portuguese leather trunk is opened. A wizened soothsayer casts his cryptic prophecies as a centuries-old Portuguese sword comes scything down in an old Brazilian prison, sparking primeval powers in its possessor. This intriguing fourth novel in a series features the somewhat jaded but dashing Rune Erikson who slogs through the piranha-infested Amazon with his Grumman Goose flying buddy, Fast Eddie, in a torturous survival trek. Rune and his Brazilian heiress babe are caught up in a sinister plot of unimaginable consequences. Coloured by romance and spiced with eroticism, this adventure lures Rune off his sailing ketch, Valhalla, in Victoria's Fisherman's Wharf into the enticing arms of a young, hot-blooded Latin American woman whose powerful matriarchal lineage is unknowingly steeped in the ancient myths and secret sagas of the steamy Amazon.
Book Synopsis People in Australia's Past by : Susan E Boyer
Download or read book People in Australia's Past written by Susan E Boyer and published by Boyer Educational Resources. This book was released on 2018-10-31 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘People in Australia’s Past - Stories & Activities’ has twenty stories of people who shaped Australia’s history. Some, like Mary Reibey and James Ruse arrived as convicts with immense difficulties to overcome. On the other hand, women like Elizabeth Macarthur, Elizabeth Macquarie and Caroline Chisholm came as free settlers, and seeing problems in society, set out to bring change and progress. Other history-makers were native born Australians like David Unaipon, Edith Cowan, John Flynn, Eddie Mabo and Charles Perkins who saw injustice and devoted their time and energy to bring progress in the fields of health, education and law reform. Edmund Barton, Australia’s first Prime Minister, was a tireless advocate for the development of Australia’s Constitution. ‘People in Australia’s Past’ 2nd edition, has the addition of the important stories of Oodgeroo Noonuccal and Vincent Lingiari who advanced the rights of Aboriginal Australians. Some Australians gained fame through their discoveries or abilities. Douglas Mawson was an explorer who collected valuable scientific information in Antarctica. Charles Kingsford Smith set world records in flying across Australia and around the globe. Banjo Paterson is remembered for his unique stories of life in the Australian bush and for his celebrated song: ‘Waltzing Matilda’. Dame Nellie Melba was Australia’s first superstar, world famous for her beautiful voice. The stories in this book relate to history topics of the Australian Curriculum, mid to upper primary school levels and are accompanied by language and research activities including crosswords, map activities, discussion topics, models for writing information texts. Language activity answers are also included. Other information: ‘People in Australia’s Past - Stories & Activities’ 2nd edition (ISBN 9781877074462) replaces the 2011 edition of ‘People in Australia’s Past’ (ISBN 9781877074363) ‘People in Australia’s Past’, 2nd edition, consists of three items. ‘People in Australia’s Past - Stories & Activities’, ISBN 9781877074462 RRP AUD29.95 ‘People in Australia’s Past - Audio CD’ ISBN 9781877074479 RRP AUD19.95 ‘People in Australia’s Past - Book & Audio CD’ ISBN 9781877074486 RRP AUD39.95 ‘People in Australia’s Past - Stories & Activities’ accompanying audio CD has narration of the twenty stories. The narration, used concurrently with the written text can be a useful tool for developing language literacy skills at all ages. The ‘People in Australia’s Past - Stories & Activities’ book has the audio CD included. The title is ‘People in Australia’s Past - Book & Audio CD’. The ISBN is 9781877074486.
Book Synopsis Once a Jolly Swagman by : Matthew Richardson
Download or read book Once a Jolly Swagman written by Matthew Richardson and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Banjo' Paterson's 'Waltzing Matilda' is the one song that has been bringing people together spontaneously since 1895, and the one song that belongs to all Australians.Generations of experts have argued about the original story that Paterson immortalised, about the origins of the tune, and about what Paterson meant by his almost parodic over-use of Australian colloquialisms.Once a Jolly Swagman takes readers off the score sheet into the story of the song, and tells of its evolution up until the twenty-first century. It tries to answer the riddles within the song, and unpick its inherent contradictions: where's the heroism in a suicidal thief? What was jolly about the jumbuck? Is 'Waltzing Matilda' the key to Australian values? What does it mean that a beloved song about Australia's pioneering past is written by a city lawyer?In this age of economic rationalism and a globalised world, how does a voice from the billabong saying, 'You'll come a waltzing matilda with me' still matter, and what does it tell us about ourselves?
Book Synopsis People in Australia's Past by : Susan Boyer
Download or read book People in Australia's Past written by Susan Boyer and published by Boyer Educational Resources. This book was released on 2011 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains language activities to accompany each story of courage, achievement and fame about people in Autralia's past.
Book Synopsis Only God and the Swagmen by : Nigel Horne
Download or read book Only God and the Swagmen written by Nigel Horne and published by Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Pu. This book was released on 2006 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Where Ya Been, Mate? by : Herb Wharton
Download or read book Where Ya Been, Mate? written by Herb Wharton and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unforgettable characters emerge from this vintage Herb Wharton collection which ranges from city to bush, from tall tales to amusing parables. There? Rainbow Jack the opal digger; Dr Roo, who when the dingbats are upon him boxes his own shadow; and stockmen with nicknames such as Wild Duck, Grease Paint and Diamond Jim. Along with campfire yarns and memories drawn from childhood are stories from Herb? other life in the big city and on the literary trail.
Book Synopsis The Mystical Swagman by : Gary Blinco
Download or read book The Mystical Swagman written by Gary Blinco and published by Multi-Media Publications Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the 1860s and colonial Australia is no longer just a dumping ground for the pitiful throw-offs of harsh English justice. The colony is rapidly taking on a new identity as a land where opportunities abound for those who are up to the challenge. Many prosper, while others prefer to tramp the endless bush and enjoy what the land has to offer, and still other turn to a life of crime. Into this wild land of rare beauty and constant change comes a quiet young orphan boy named Brennan. He knows nothing of his origins and his only family is an old lady who nurtures him into his teenage years. When she can no longer care for him, he packs a modest swag and a little money and heads into the bush. On the track, he meets up with two old swagmen who quickly become his new family. Tramping the bush tracks, they find many adventures. Set against the backdrop of the beautiful bush, they experience bushfires, floods, droughts, harsh winters, blistering summers, and the kindness and sometimes cruelty of the inhabitants. As he grows, Brennan begins to develop strange mystical powers that come to him in moments of great fear or passion. He is excited and scared at the same time, and he longs to understand his origins and find the source of these mystical powers in the hope that he can learn to master them. This story provides an insight into early Australian colonial history, the land, and its people, as seen through the eyes of a mystical young swagman.
Download or read book Inga Clendinnen written by James Boyce and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An internationally celebrated historian and highly original thinker, Inga Clendinnen compelled readers to re-examine accepted histories from new angles. Inga Clendinnen was one of Australia’s greatest writers and historians. This selection covers the full scope of her work, from Tiger’s Eye to Aztecs, from her Boyer Lectures to essays on all manner of topics. It is introduced by acclaimed historian James Boyce, who traces Clendinnen’s life and evolving thought. Boyce writes that Clendinnen’s ‘ability to write serious history for a general readership was unrivalled in this country ... Her writings are an enduring testament to the truth that while we might “live within the narrow moving band of time we call the present ... the secret engine of our present is our past, with its plastic memories, its malleable moralities, its wreathing dreams of desirable futures”.’ ‘With the profound moral concern of the best general reader, one of our finest historians brings the Holocaust close up and stares the Medusa down. Inga Clendinnen claims for history the same power as poetry or fiction to enter the silences and make them speak.’ —David Malouf ‘Her respect for the intelligence of her readers, her sacred sense of the moral responsibility of history, and her luminous prose won her a large and devoted public.’ —Tom Griffiths
Book Synopsis Quarterly Essay 23 The History Question by : Inga Clendinnen
Download or read book Quarterly Essay 23 The History Question written by Inga Clendinnen and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2015-01-29 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the third Quarterly Essay for 2006, Inga Clendinnen looks past the skirmishes and pitched battles of the history wars and asks what's at stake - what kind of history do we want and need? Should our historians be producing the ''''''''objective record of achievement'''''''' that the Prime Minister has called for? For Clendinnen, historians cannot be the midwives of national identity and also be true to their profession: history cannot do the work of myth. Clendinnen illuminates the ways in which history, myth and fiction differ from one another, and why the differences are important. In discussing what good history looks like, she pays tribute to the human need for story telling but notes the distinctive critical role of the historian. She offers a spirited critique of Kate Grenville's novel The Secret River, and discusses the Stolen Generations and the role of morality in history writing. This is an eloquent and stimulating essay about a subject that has generated much heat in recent times: how we should record and regard the nation's past. ''''''''Who owns the past? In a free society, everyone. It is a magic pudding belonging to anyone who wants to cut themselves a slice, from legend manufacturers through novelists looking for ready - made plots, to interest groups out to extend their influence.'''''''' - Inga Clendinnen, The History Question.
Download or read book Flock written by Ellen van Neerven and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging and captivating anthology showcases both the power of First Nations writing and the satisfaction of a good short story. Curated by award-winning author Ellen van Neerven, Flock roams the landscape of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander storytelling, bringing together voices from across the generations. Featuring established authors such as Tony Birch, Melissa Lucashenko and Tara June Winch, and rising stars such as Adam Thompson and Mykaela Saunders, Flock confirms the ongoing resonance and originality of First Nations stories.
Download or read book The Swagman Saga written by M.A. Hill and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-10-11 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE SWAGMAN SAGA is an Australian colonial myth of the vagrant archetype traveling through time and over the landscapes of the Great South Land. From the convict settlement in Port Jaxson, to an epic trek across the continent with his magic swag and The Old Grey Mare, to the founding of Freemanport in Western New Holland. Counterpointing his story is that of Matilda, born of a line of Cornish witches who bear the magic trunk which binds the destiny of all the characters. The Swagman, Tai Foon the Golem Chinese Warrior, Biddi and Yanda their Aboriginal friends, and the antagonist - a terrible agent of Law and Order, The Nemesis of Witches, Captain Sharman, a shape-changer riding a carnivorous black steed. The Swagman and the Witch create a new life together, founding a nation that embraces people from all the lands on earth.
Download or read book The Australians written by John Hirst and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there an Australian national character? What are its distinguishing features? Over the years, how have insiders and outsiders summed up this country and its people, and how have Australians responded to outside criticism? In The Australians, John Hirst gathers together the key assessments of the national character, on topics as diverse as sport, war, mateship, humour, put-downs, suburbia and going native. There is celebration and criticism. There is humour and insight. There is the difference between what Australians think of themselves and what they are really like. Contributors include Winston Churchill, Ned Kelly, Tim Flannery, Henry Lawson, Peter Cosgrove, Germaine Greer, Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens, Captain James Cook, David Malouf, Mark Twain, H.G. Wells, Patrick White, Oscar Wilde and Tim Winton.
Book Synopsis Austral English by : Edward Ellis Morris
Download or read book Austral English written by Edward Ellis Morris and published by London : Macmillan. This book was released on 1898 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
