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Gun Fights, Ghosts and Goannas

Author : Gary Wood
Publisher : Australian Self Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1763563103
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (635 download)

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Download or read book Gun Fights, Ghosts and Goannas written by Gary Wood and published by Australian Self Publishing Group. This book was released on 2024-10-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since he was a young man living on the Gold Coast, Gary had dreamed of riding a motor-cycle around Australia. His focus on family, qualifications, career and mortgage conspired to push this dream out of his mind. Life had stopped being fun and he could see that it wouldn’t get better unless he changed his thinking. Then one night while lying in his hammock, sipping red wine, and listening to music, a song from his past came over the speaker. It was a message from his younger self reminding him of his dreams. He made a goal, got a motorcycle and some camping gear, and within two years he was on a solo motorcycle adventure through Queensland. This book is more than a motorcycle travel story, it’s an adventure through the heart of Queensland and the soul of Australia. Along the way, Gary learns the secret of life, loses his money by betting on chickens and solves the murder of the swaggie from the song Waltzing Matilda. His message to the reader is that it’s never too late to set and achieve goals. If he can do it anyone can, and it’s easier than you think. Just twist the throttle and look out for kangaroos.

Shadows of War on the Brisbane Line

Author : Graham Smith
Publisher : Boolarong Press
ISBN 13 : 1921555831
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book Shadows of War on the Brisbane Line written by Graham Smith and published by Boolarong Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recollections of a young boy growing up in a Queensland bush community during the most turbulent time in Australia's history. The stories are from a world that is almost unrecognisable to the one we live in today, about a community that no longer exists. My immediate family want to remember 'Grandad's stories', and I hope the wider audience will enjoy either renewing their acquaintance with the world of their childhood, or learning about the world of parents and grandparents.

Guns and Goannas

Author : Browne J.S. & Franklin Bradley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781922134721
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Guns and Goannas written by Browne J.S. & Franklin Bradley and published by . This book was released on 2016-08 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of the iconic character Les Nortonhellip;Jim Dempsey is the new and hilarious Aussie hit! Working as head of security at one of Sydneyrsquo;s finest establishments has its perks and when Jim Dempseyrsquo;s millionaire boss asked him to house mind his beach bungalow on the far north coast of NSW it seemed too good to be true.In between chasing fast women, being mistaken for Prince Harry, starting a fight with the local Goanna Pulling Champion, this could potentially be his biggest earn everhellip;.Jim Dempsey proves one hell of a lot can happen in 7 dayshellip;

Aboriginal History

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Aboriginal History written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

This Could Be Your Future

Author : Ross Fardon
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1479764787
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book This Could Be Your Future written by Ross Fardon and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-09-21 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book of a hundred stories and life lessons: crazy; beautiful; very serious. It is of a golden life and nine near-death encounters, moving between remote camps amidst poor indigenous folk, the salt of the Earth, and the glossy skyscrapers of our cities. Mineral exploration is a strange game. It is highest technology, big dollars, outback people and their aspirations, wonderful places, and flies, dirt, mud, budget cuts and enduring friendships. Remote projects keep explorers abroad in this beautiful world, but far from families. You have time and yearning on your hands, time to think and dream. When you reach executive ranks, you deal in public ideologies about mining, government and NGOs at all levels, billions of dollars, and changing whole regions around great mines for better more than for worse. This is the easily-written story of man and manager, major public policies, and many good folk across the world. To read more, go to Rossfardonbooksandessays.com where you can also download essays for free.

Hunter-gatherers Today

Author : Jon C. Altman
Publisher : Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Hunter-gatherers Today written by Jon C. Altman and published by Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island. This book was released on 1987 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analysis of Momega outstation economy; eastern Gunwinggu people; social, geographic setting; dietary analysis; sources of cash income; market replacement values of subsistence foodstuff; market value of art and craft production, mens vs womens; expenditure patterns, consumer goods, capital; price fluctuations over the period of fieldwork; Questions Sahlins original affluence hypothesis; discusses work, labour in subsistence economy; reckoning of time, activity patterns, work density, productivity, composition of hunting and gathering teams, leadership on the hunt; examines system of redistribution, sharing of subsistence produce; influential factors include type of game, seasonal variation, kinship, status of hunter, coresidence; introduction of unemployment benefits, bases for sharing cash; conflict between local values, indigenous social security system and Federal governments system of awarding social security payments, local anomolies in payments; cash sharing and kinship distance, gambling rings, types of card games, division of goods into traditional and market spheres; rules for utilisation of various types of goods; regulation of consumption of bush foods by means of prohibitions and taboos; adaption vs adoption of market goods; discusses ceremonial and market exchange; range of exchange types, ceremonial exchange cycle; economic significance of ceremonial vs market exchange; seasonal migration between township and outstation.

Bunyips

Author : Shirley Raye Redmond
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 0737759194
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (377 download)

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Download or read book Bunyips written by Shirley Raye Redmond and published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2011-04-27 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers are taken on a journey to Australia's lore of the bunyip. This book describes its origin, menacing characteristics, and the monster's legacy in popular culture.

The Road Home

Author : Margaret Way
Publisher : Zebra Books
ISBN 13 : 1420141732
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book The Road Home written by Margaret Way and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mystery and romance collide at a glittering soirée when a Sydney businessman meets a stunning beauty who resembles a missing woman. Bruno McKendrick knows that he can win the attention of any woman he pleases. The well-to-do son of a Scottish-born father and Italian mother, Bruno is one of the most eligible bachelors in Australian high-society. But on this night at a party off the coast of Sydney Harbour, finding love is the last thing on his mind as he makes his way through the usual crowd of movers, shakers, and hob-nobbers. Then he lays eyes on an incomparable beauty whose face Bruno is sure he’s seen before. Her name is Isabelle Martin—and she says she’s not who Bruno thinks she is. Still, he’s determined to prove that Isabelle is the living image of someone his late private-investigator father spent his life trying to find. Solving this twenty-year-old mystery is one challenge; the burning attraction between Bruno and Isabelle is another. As he closes in on the case and discovers a dark truth from Isabelle’s past, Bruno risks tearing her whole world apart . . . unless she will allow him to help pick up the pieces . . . “In this enjoyable contemporary, Way . . . combines romance with a decades-old mystery and the dazzling beauty of the Australian outback. . . . The mystery . . . propels the novel forward at a swift pace as romantic tension heats up between Bruno and Isabelle, and readers will eagerly follow them to the satisfying ending.” —Publishers Weekly

Home to Mother

Author : Doris Pilkington
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN 13 : 9780702235467
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (354 download)

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Download or read book Home to Mother written by Doris Pilkington and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Gracie, Daisy and Molly are taken from their mother and sent away to the Moore River Settlement, thousands of miles from their home country, they decide to escape. But when the only way home is along a rabbit-proof fence, and you re being chased by the police, escaping is just the start of your adventure.This younger reader's version of Doris Pilkington's amazing best-selling true story of courage and love will grab readers of all ages, and take them on a journey through a country as beautiful as it is harsh. A journey home.

Grave Tales

Author : Helen Goltz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780648709343
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Grave Tales written by Helen Goltz and published by . This book was released on 2020-05 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visiting Melbourne cemeteries, 'Grave Tales: Melbourne Vol. 1' tells the stories of everyday people who willingly or unwillingly, were participants in events that made local and national headlines. They may have lived in the same suburbs, streets, and even the same houses as exist now in towns and cities along the way, and finished their days in cemeteries in Melbourne. These are tales of early settlement, unsolved murders, love lost, mystery, tragedy, health epidemics, scandal and sacrifice. 'Grave Tales' reveals more than the headstone can ever convey by tracing the tumultuous journeys that lead to these final resting places. This is number seven in the awarded and popular 'Grave Tales' series.

The Secret of the Sneezing Pillow

Author : Carolina Haggstrom
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0980853516
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book The Secret of the Sneezing Pillow written by Carolina Haggstrom and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Warren Mundine in Black + White

Author : Warren Mundine
Publisher : Pantera Press
ISBN 13 : 1925700003
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (257 download)

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Download or read book Warren Mundine in Black + White written by Warren Mundine and published by Pantera Press. This book was released on 2018-07-28 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of this country's most important writers on the vexed and sensitive issues of black and white Australia, politics and race" – Caroline Overington."Warren's a fighter... He looked at Lionel Rose – our greatest champion – through the eyes of a boy and learnt the greatest lesson of our lives: stay on your feet." – Stan Grant.One of eleven children in a poor Catholic family, Nyunggai Warren Mundine AO has been on a remarkable journey that could have taken a very different turn for a young boy growing up as second-class citizen in the segregated Australia of the 1950s. From his early life in country NSW, with only one pair of shoes and a single bed shared with three of his brothers, to today where he frequents the highest echelons of power and business, In Black+White is a stirring story of an Indigenous life woven into the very fabric of Australia and its politics.In this honest and unflinching memoir, Mundine talks about his personal hardships from growing up in poverty and facing racism, to his personal battle with depression and suicide. One of the most controversial personalities in today's political spectrum, Mundine also includes surprising insights into key political leaders he has worked with including Malcolm Turnbull, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Tony Abbott, Peta Credlin, Mark Latham, Jenny Macklin, and Sam Dastyari.Included in this updated edition are two new chapters in which Mundine shares his passion for work and empowering those trapped in the welfare cycle. Drawing from personal experience, Mundine believes poverty is not just about money but about deprivation of basic needs like employment, lack of purpose and aspiration, and lack of autonomy and independence.

Walkabout

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walkabout written by and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Desert

Author : Roslynn D. Haynes
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 178023208X
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Desert written by Roslynn D. Haynes and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sand. Cacti. Lizards. Mirages. Deserts call to mind exotic places, a sense of adventure and freedom, but also thirst and desolation. In Desert, Roslynn D. Haynes takes a fresh look at this geographical feature and cultural entity as it becomes an increasingly threatened environment. Considering the immense geographical diversity of deserts from the Sahara to Antarctica, Haynes explores the intriguing and often bizarre ways plants and animals adapt to such a hostile environment, as well as the diverse peoples that have inhabited deserts and evolved unique lifestyles and cultures in response to their surroundings. She asks why Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all originated in the deserts of the Middle East and traces the connections between the minimalism of desert existence and the pursuit of a spiritual dimension. Finally, she describes the allure deserts have exerted on the West, the significance of desolate landscapes in literature and film, and the revolution in artists’ responses to the desert as an empty space and as an inspiration for new visual techniques with which to view it. Ending with a look at how commercial and military interests threaten desert ecologies, Desert casts new light on our view of these seemingly barren places.

"Scribbling Women"

Author : Marthe Jocelyn
Publisher : Tundra Books
ISBN 13 : 1770492305
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book "Scribbling Women" written by Marthe Jocelyn and published by Tundra Books. This book was released on 2011-03-22 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1855, Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote to his publisher, complaining about the irritating fad of “scribbling women.” Whether they were written by professionals, by women who simply wanted to connect with others, or by those who wanted to leave a record of their lives, those “scribbles” are fascinating, informative, and instructive. Margaret Catchpole was a transported prisoner whose eleven letters provide the earliest record of white settlement in Australia. Writing hundreds of years later, Aboriginal writer Doris Pilkington-Garimara wrote a novel about another kind of exile in Australia. Young Isabella Beeton, one of twenty-one children and herself the mother of four, managed to write a groundbreaking cookbook before she died at the age of twenty-eight. World traveler and journalist Nelly Bly used her writing to expose terrible injustices. Sei Shonagan has left us poetry and journal entries that provide a vivid look at the pampered life and intrigues in Japan’s imperial court. Ada Blackjack, sole survivor of a disastrous scientific expedition in the Arctic, fought isolation and fear with her precious Eversharp pencil. Dr. Dang Thuy Tram’s diary, written in a field hospital in the steaming North Vietnamese jungle while American bombs fell, is a heartbreaking record of fear and hope. Many of the women in “Scribbling Women” had eventful lives. They became friends with cannibals, delivered babies, stole horses, and sailed on whaling ships. Others lived quietly, close to home. But each of them has illuminated the world through her words. A note from the author: OOPS! On page 197, the credit for the Portrait of Harriet Jacobs on page 43 should read: courtesy of Library of Congress, not Jean Fagan Yellin. On page 197, the credit for the portrait of Isabella Beeton on page 61 should read: National Portrait Gallery, London. On page 198, the credit for page 147 should be Dang Kim Tram, not Kim Tram Dang. We are very sorry about the mix-up in the Photo Credits, they will be updated on any new editions or reprints.

Into Thick Air

Author : Jim Malusa
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1578051843
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Into Thick Air written by Jim Malusa and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Delightful debut travelogue by botanist Malusa, who cycled to the lowest point on each of six continents.” —Kirkus Reviews With plenty of sunscreen and a cold beer swaddled in his sleeping bag, writer and botanist Jim Malusa bicycled alone to the lowest point on each of six continents, a six–year series of “anti–expeditions” to “anti–summits.” His journeys took him to Lake Eyre in the arid heart of Australia, along Moses’ route to the Dead Sea, and from Moscow to the Caspian Sea. He pedaled across the Andes to Patagonia, around tiny Djibouti in the Horn of Africa, and from Tucson to Death Valley. With a scientist’s eye, Malusa vividly observes local landscapes and creatures. As a lone man, he is overfed by grandmothers, courted by ladies of the night in Volgograd, invited into a mosque by Africa’s most feared tribe, chased by sandstorms and hurricanes—yet Malusa keeps riding. His reward: the deep silence of the world’s great depressions. A large–hearted narrative of what happens when a friendly, perceptive American puts himself at the mercy of strange landscapes and their denizens, Into Thick Air presents one of the most talented new voices in contemporary travel writing. “I’ve followed all of Jim’s amazing and hilarious journeys, and I am happy to claim him as one of my favorite writers.” —Barbara Kingsolver, New York Times bestselling author “His descriptions of desert landscapes can be extraordinary . . . You can almost feel the dry gusts turning Malusa’s lips into cracked leather.” —The New York Times Book Review

Islands of the Damned

Author : R.V. Burgin
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0451232267
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Islands of the Damned written by R.V. Burgin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable eyewitness account of the most brutal combat of the Pacific War, from Peleliu to Okinawa, this is the true story of R.V. Burgin, the real-life World War II Marine Corps hero featured in HBO®'s The Pacific. “Read his story and marvel at the man...and those like him.”—Tom Hanks When a young Texan named R.V. Burgin joined the Marines 1942, he never imagined what was waiting for him a world away in the Pacific. There, amid steamy jungles, he encountered a ferocious and desperate enemy in the Japanese, engaging them in some of the most grueling and deadly fights of the war. In this remarkable memoir, Burgin reveals his life as a special breed of Marine. Schooled by veterans who had endured the cauldron of Guadalcanal, Burgin’s company soon confronted snipers, repulsed jungle ambushes, encountered abandoned corpses of hara-kiri victims, and warded off howling banzai attacks as they island-hopped from one bloody battle to the next. In his two years at war, Burgin rose from a green private to a seasoned sergeant, fighting from New Britain through Peleliu and on to Okinawa, where he earned a Bronze Star for valor. With unforgettable drama and an understated elegance, Burgin’s gripping narrative stands alongside those of classic Pacific chroniclers like Robert Leckie and Eugene Sledge—indeed, Burgin was even Sledge’s platoon sergeant. Here is a deeply moving account of World War II, bringing to life the hell that was the Pacific War.