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Becoming Westerly

Author : Jamie Brisick
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1743439709
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book Becoming Westerly written by Jamie Brisick and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2015-02-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Peter was always looking for a princess, he wanted to find his princess. Unfortunately, the princess was me. I'm the princess that Peter always wanted but never met.' Westerly Windina 'Westerly's affection for Peter comes in many guises. Most of the time it's wistful and forlorn. When she talks about his awkwardness, his pretending to be something he was not, she sounds like a mother remembering her deceased child.' Jamie Brisick, from Becoming Westerly Peter Drouyn was a champion surfer with a touch of genius who forever changed the face of surfing by introducing the concept of the man-on-man competition format. Known for his aggressive yet elegant style on the wave, Drouyn was also a lawyer, heartthrob actor and showman extraordinaire, famous for his eccentric behaviour and ambitious ideas. For nearly a decade now, Peter Drouyn has been living as a woman, Westerly Windina. The surfing community is at once awestruck, sceptical and supportive. As one renowned surf journalist put it, 'Is this Peter's greatest performance ever?' In a recent issue of Surfing World, surfers voted Peter/Westerly 'the most interesting surfer in the world'. And the world is taking notice. Beginning with her 2012 trip to Bangkok for gender reassignment surgery, Becoming Westerly retraces Peter Drouyn's odyssey from teenage Queensland hopeful to 1960s global surfing sensation to embittered, middle-age has-been to the phoenix-like, glamorous, sixty-four-year-old Westerly. As Westerly herself notes, 'It was like a Supernova. It just kicked in one night and, bang, Peter was gone and Westerly was there. Part biography, part memoir, part documentary, part saga, Becoming Westerly is as much an exploration of surf culture and Australian society as it is of sexual identity. But most of all it is a portrait of two extraordinary people in one, and a very personal account of the courage and self-belief it has taken for Peter to become Westerly.

Becoming Westerly

Author : Jamie Brisick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781944853563
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book Becoming Westerly written by Jamie Brisick and published by . This book was released on 2019-06 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with her 2012 trip to Bangkok for gender reassignment surgery, BECOMING WESTERLY traces surf legend Peter Drouyn's odyssey from teenage Queensland hopeful to 1960s surf champion to embittered has-been who struggles to rise again as the glamorous, sixty-four-year-old Westerly. Surf journalist Jamie Brisick provides an intimate exploration of global surf culture--a nuanced portrait of Peter/Westerly and the world that shaped her evolving identity. In the '60s and '70s, Australian Peter Drouyn was one of the world's greatest surfers. He pioneered an aggressive approach called "power surfing," introduced the man-on-man competition format, and charged giant waves in Hawaii. A Zelig figure, he took on many roles--method actor, surf resort owner, modeling school founder, and lawyer to name but a few. For nearly the past decade, Peter has been living as a woman, Westerly Windina, a complex, aspiring entertainer. Beginning with her 2012 trip to Bangkok for gender reassignment surgery, BECOMING WESTERLY traces Peter Drouyn's odyssey from teenage Queensland hopeful to 1960s surf champion to embittered has-been who struggles to rise again as the glamorous, sixty-four-year-old Westerly. Surf journalist Jamie Brisick provides an intimate exploration of global surf culture--a nuanced portrait of Peter/Westerly and the world that shaped her evolving identity.

Becoming Westerly: Surf Legend Peter Drouyn's Transformation Into Westerly Windina

Author : Jamie Brisick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781937402754
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book Becoming Westerly: Surf Legend Peter Drouyn's Transformation Into Westerly Windina written by Jamie Brisick and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Becoming Westerly

Author : Jamie Brisick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (562 download)

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Download or read book Becoming Westerly written by Jamie Brisick and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the sixties and seventies, Australian Peter Drouyn was one of the world's greatest surfers. He pioneered an aggressive approach called "power surfing," introduced the man-on-man competition format, and charged giant waves in Hawaii. A Zelig figure, he took on many roles-method actor, surf resort owner, modeling school founder, and lawyer to name but a few. For nearly the past decade, Peter has been living as a woman, Westerly Windina, a complex, aspiring entertainer. Beginning with her 2012 trip to Bangkok for gender reassignment surgery, BECOMING WESTERLY traces Peter Drouyn's odyssey from teenage Queensland hopeful to 1960s surf champion to embittered has-been who struggles to rise again as the glamorous, sixty-four-year-old Westerly Surf journalist Jamie Brisick provides an intimate exploration of global surf culture-a nuanced portrait of Peter/Westerly and the world that shaped her evolving identity. Brisick also co-directed the documentary film version of her story, titled Becoming Westerly.

Eye of a Rook

Author : Josephine Taylor
Publisher : Fremantle Press
ISBN 13 : 1925816729
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book Eye of a Rook written by Josephine Taylor and published by Fremantle Press. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1860s London, Arthur sees his wife, Emily, suddenly struck down by a pain for which she can find no words, forced to endure harmful treatments, and reliant on him for guidance. Meanwhile, in contemporary Perth, Alice, a writer, and her older husband, Duncan, find their marriage threatened as Alice investigates the history of hysteria, female sexuality, and the treatment of the female body—her own and the bodies of those who came before.

The Flight Across the Atlantic

Author : Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Corporation
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Flight Across the Atlantic written by Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Corporation and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Quarterly Weather Report of the Meteorological Office

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Murmurations

Author : Carol Lefevre
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781925950083
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Murmurations written by Carol Lefevre and published by . This book was released on 2020-04 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time since he'd left the island he thought of the starlings massed at dusk in the winter trees behind the children's home. He remembered the rustle of their wings when they twisted in skeins over the fields, or swelled and contracted high above the cliffs, dark wave after dark wave, lifting and falling in a kind of dance. Sister Lucy had said it was a murmuration. He was still quite young, and he had thought the birds were showing him a sign, that there was something written in their fluid patterns. Lives merge and diverge; they soar and plunge, or come to rest in impenetrable silence. Erris Cleary's absence haunts the pages of this exquisite novella, a woman who complicates other lives yet confers unexpected blessings. Fly far, be free, urges Erris. Who can know why she smashes mirrors? Who can say why she does not heed her own advice? Among the sudden shifts and swings, the swerving flight paths taken, something hidden must be uncovered, something dark and rotten, even evil, which has masqueraded as normality. In the end it will be a writer's task to reclaim Erris, to bear witness, to sound in fiction the one true note that will crack the silence.

Blueberries

Author : Ellena Savage
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1925923177
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (259 download)

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Download or read book Blueberries written by Ellena Savage and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stimulating combination of memoir, essay, poetry, confession and critique, Blueberries is a powerful and revealing collection from a rising star in Australian creative non-fiction.

Weather and Climate as Related to Military Operations in France

Author : United States. Army Air Forces. Weather Division
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 774 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Locust Summer

Author : David Allan-Petale
Publisher : Fremantle Press
ISBN 13 : 1925816370
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book Locust Summer written by David Allan-Petale and published by Fremantle Press. This book was released on 2021-07-02 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for The Australian Vogel's Literary Award, Locust Summer celebrates the wide-open beauty of Australia's regions while exploring the heartbreaks that come from living on the land. On the cusp of summer, 1986, Rowan Brockman's mother asks if he can come home to Septimus in the Western Australian Wheatbelt to help with the harvest. Rowan's brother Albert, the natural heir to the farm, has died and Rowan's dad's health is failing. Although he longs to, there is no way that Rowan can refuse his mother's request as she prepares the farm for sale. This is the story of the final harvest - the story of a young man in a place he doesn't want to be, being given one last chance to make peace before the past, and those he has loved, disappear.

The Breadwinner

Author : Deborah Ellis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780192752840
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (528 download)

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Download or read book The Breadwinner written by Deborah Ellis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-03-04 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because the Taliban rulers of Kabul, Afghanistan impose strict limitations on women's freedom and behavior, eleven-year-old Parvana must disguise herself as a boy so that her family can survive after her father's arrest.

Carousel

Author : Brendan Ritchie
Publisher : Fremantle Press
ISBN 13 : 1925162168
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (251 download)

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Download or read book Carousel written by Brendan Ritchie and published by Fremantle Press. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A postapocalyptic mystery-thriller for young adults Nox is an arts graduate wondering what to do with his life. Taylor and Lizzy are famous indie musicians, and Rocky works the checkouts at Target. When they find themselves trapped in a giant mall, they eat fast food, watch bad TV, and wait. But with no sign of any other humans, the novelty of having their own mall quickly fades. When days turn to weeks, a sense of menace quickly grows.

Daily Bulletin of Weather Reports

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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The Times Register of Events in ...

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 806 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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The Geology of the North Staffordshire Coalfields

Author : Walcot Gibson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Geology of the North Staffordshire Coalfields written by Walcot Gibson and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Symons's Monthly Meteorological Magazine

Author : George James Symons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 786 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Symons's Monthly Meteorological Magazine written by George James Symons and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: