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Book Synopsis Wanderings of a Ten Pound Pom by : Bob Horsman
Download or read book Wanderings of a Ten Pound Pom written by Bob Horsman and published by Fontaine Press Pty Ltd. This book was released on 2015-02-18 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wanderings of a Ten Pound Pom is about an English emigrant to Australia beginning almost 50 years ago in 1966, until his marriage in 1977. The stories revolve around his work as an electrician in this new country and his travels throughout the world during that time. Those travels include visits to 32 countries with over a hundred locations. There are some funny moments, some are adventurous and some are more than a little embarrassing. Some are serious and some are light-hearted. An entertaining read, for the bus or the train, over a coffee or at bedtime. Bob Horsman's writing of those times has been almost as enjoyable for him as living them. It is his hope that the reading of these anecdotes will do the same for you.
Book Synopsis Ten Pound Poms by : A. James Hammerton
Download or read book Ten Pound Poms written by A. James Hammerton and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2005-08-06 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors draw upon a rich life history archive of letters, diaries, personal photographs and oral history interviews with former migrants, including those who settled in Australia and those who returned to Britain. They offer original interpretations of key historical themes, including motivations for emigration; gender relations and the family dynamics of migration; the 'very familiar and awfully strange' confrontation with the new world; the anguish of homesickness and return; and the personal and national identities of both settlers and returnees, fifty years on. --book cover.
Book Synopsis The Adventures of Commander Ryan by : Kenneth Turpin
Download or read book The Adventures of Commander Ryan written by Kenneth Turpin and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-12-26 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Denis Ryan a tall well made good looking young man, Who knew where he was going, reached 23 he was manager at his work chained to a desk, This was not the sort of job Denis liked, So he resigned and left to go to Australia, The Australian Police Force were recruiting staff at Australia House in London Denis joins as a Criminal Investigation Officer and heads for a new life in Australia, But as soon as he steps foot on the ship a set of circumstances happen, He meets 3 young girls and they became friends, they found him amusing and decided to stick together and a love affair starts, they found out the real reason Denis prefers to wear boxer shorts, he was a big lad and the girls loved it, When he and the girls get off the ship in Durban, South Africa He likes the easy luxurious way of life, his riches bring him, The Sun, the Erotic love affairs so he stays in South Africa using his money buying various properties, in Natal, and the Cape Provence which he falls in love with and living a luxurious life style, He eventually gets to Australia ends up in the Australian-Navy- intelligence and gets sent to Viet Nam, on Illegal smuggling in Human trafficking cases. Then as station commander with the Papua & New Guinea Police and expedition force, on a number of incidents in a country thats 9 tenths Jungle and the Crooks have poisonous arrows, His last case takes him on an expedition down the Fly river chasing Cannibals and they get caught by a Tribe of 7ft tall Amazon women who used them as SEX Slaves.
Book Synopsis ADVENTURES IN A BACKWATER GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT AND OTHER SCENES FROM THE UNREMARKABLE LIFE OF A SON OF THE SUBURBS by : Patrick Hickman-Robertson
Download or read book ADVENTURES IN A BACKWATER GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT AND OTHER SCENES FROM THE UNREMARKABLE LIFE OF A SON OF THE SUBURBS written by Patrick Hickman-Robertson and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patrick was a wayward child who could not speak until he was four and ran away from boarding school. A disappointment to his parents and the despair of his teachers, he lacked the normal abilities that young people acquire as they grow up. After being sacked from his job, Patrick decided to try his fortunes overseas. A timid traveller and always obedient to authority, how did he come to the attention of the FBI, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Los Angeles Police Departments South Africa's Bureau of State Security and Rhodesia's BSA Police? And why did he come to be in police custody in Tanganyika and the first white man deported by newly independent Kenya? Back in England, Patrick's CV was no conducive to gainful employment of the kind enjoyed by his peers: encyclopaedia salesman, nomadic field-hand, lavatory cleaner, bear-chaser, baggage-smasher, waitress (yes!), factory labourer, scullion. The BBC offered sanctuary as a clerk, with few prospects of advancement. After five years of entertaining if ill-paid work in an office full of colourful misfits, Patrick fell into the embrace of the Civil Service. A trainee again at the age of 30, could things improve? Things could, but not without a catalogue of mishaps on the way. Patrick's propensity for bright ideas tended towards disaster, including a national crisis when he set in train the events that culminated in Black Wednesday.
Book Synopsis Ten Pound Pom: Victor Poxon Goes To War by : John Pateman
Download or read book Ten Pound Pom: Victor Poxon Goes To War written by John Pateman and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of Victor Poxon and time in the Royal Navy during the Second World War on HMS Aurora and his life in Australia in the 1960s and 70s.
Download or read book The Fortune Men written by Nadifa Mohamed and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • Based on a true event, this novel is “a blues song cut straight from the heart ... about the unjust death of an innocent Black man caught up in a corrupt system” (Walter Mosley, best-selling author of Devil in a Blue Dress). In Cardiff, Wales in 1952, Mahmood Mattan, a young Somali sailor, is accused of a crime he did not commit: the brutal killing of Violet Volacki, a shopkeeper from Tiger Bay. At first, Mahmood believes he can ignore the fingers pointing his way; he may be a gambler and a petty thief, but he is no murderer. He is a father of three, secure in his innocence and his belief in British justice. But as the trial draws closer, his prospect for freedom dwindles. Now, Mahmood must stage a terrifying fight for his life, with all the chips stacked against him: a shoddy investigation, an inhumane legal system, and, most evidently, pervasive and deep-rooted racism at every step. Under the shadow of the hangman's noose, Mahmood begins to realize that even the truth may not be enough to save him. A haunting tale of miscarried justice, this book offers a chilling look at the dark corners of our humanity.
Book Synopsis The First Ten Years in Australia by : Max Barrington
Download or read book The First Ten Years in Australia written by Max Barrington and published by Etteleah. This book was released on 2024-06-14 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Amazing story of a ten year old boy's adventure of coming from England to Australia with his parents in 1959. It tells of the family's ten moves to different New South Wales towns, within ten years, whilst his father sought work, from a ferry skipper to a quarry manager. It, also tells of a determination, to succeed in a new environment. It is a very moving, interesting turn of events, of a real family, based on a true story. You will not be able to put this book down!
Download or read book Sea Sick written by Ruth Taylor and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2024-07-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there a doctor who wouldn’t want to work on a cruise ship sailing to Rio? Ruth sets off on the voyage of a lifetime with her husband, Tom, yearning for a blissful break away from fifteen years as a hectic GP in the East End of London. Within days an epidemic of Norovirus takes over the ship. Strict sanitary measures are implemented. Passengers are quarantined. The mood on board changes. As the sole doctor Ruth works alongside two nurses one of whom is an alcoholic. Tensions in the Medical Centre mount. Medical cases include life-threatening emergencies. A GP surgery it is not. At the doctor’s table apparently colourless passengers reveal surprises as the trip unfolds. By day Ruth struggles with the masculine hierarchy while evenings bring romantic escapism for Tom and Ruth. Ruth’s unease grows as she realises that the ship retraces the Atlantic slave trade ports. Her family story as Ten Pound Poms emigrating to Australia in 1949 and their subsequent four Atlantic crossings ignites her lifelong attachment to the sea. But will this be Ruth’s last voyage?
Book Synopsis The Wingman Adventures Volume Three by : Mack Maloney
Download or read book The Wingman Adventures Volume Three written by Mack Maloney and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 1674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hawk Hunter is back—in the bestselling military adventure series by “the best high-action thriller writer out there today, bar none” (Jon Land). With nearly a quarter of million copies sold, this high-octane series features Hawk Hunter, a fearless fighter pilot who saves the not-so-distant-future United States from the brink of all-out anarchy. Skyfire: In the chaos that followed the end of World War III, Maj. Hawk Hunter took refuge in the arms of a woman named Dominique. But Hunter’s campaign soon tore them apart, and he was forced to send her to Canada, where his enemies claimed Dominique as their own. Drugged, tortured, and imprisoned, she waits helplessly—praying for his return. But while Hunter embarks on a daring raid to rescue his beloved, another threat is coming—in the sleek black nuclear submarines now steaming toward the eastern seaboard, whose warheads threaten everything Hunter is fighting to rebuild. Return from the Inferno: Just as America is beginning to recover from nuclear war, her enemies attack again. As ace pilot Hawk Hunter battles the horde of Nordic mercenaries who have ravaged the East Coast, another army lands in California: the combined forces of the dictatorships of East Asia. The Second Axis is here. Hunter leads the charge, flying his famous red, white, and blue F-16 into the invasion’s maw. But this is the first time the Wingman does not come out the other side. Their champion gone, America’s soldiers carry on, engaging in guerilla warfare to protect the country’s interior, keeping hope alive that Hunter is out there somewhere, planning a counterattack. War of the Sun: An army of cultish mercenaries from East Asia has seized the West Coast, conquering territory as far east as the Rocky Mountains—all in the name of Hashi Pushi, a Japanese despot revered as a god. With the support of two submarines patrolling the Pacific, each armed with a nuclear warhead, the invaders have promised that any counterattack will result in the annihilation of two American cities—a price the battle-scarred populace is not prepared to pay. Onboard the carrier Enterprise, Hunter prepares to strike. His target is not the submarines, but Tokyo itself, where his fellow pilots will attack this warrior cult from the top down. The Ghost War: A pilot patrolling the South Pacific discovers Xmas Island is nothing more than a blackened hole in the ground. The carnage was wreaked by a battleship armed with an array of sixteen-inch cannons that, in a matter of minutes, could obliterate any city on earth. As far as Maj. Hawk Hunter is concerned, that constitutes a direct threat to the West Coast—a threat he must neutralize personally.
Book Synopsis Absent Prince by : Una Suseli O'Connell
Download or read book Absent Prince written by Una Suseli O'Connell and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2020-06-18 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do we inherit the psychological as well as the material legacies of our ancestors, the hidden dynamics that influence our relationship patterns, our health and our self-image?Una's heartfelt family memoir, based on her parents' letters and diaries, follows the arc of individual lives between the years 1933 and 1997. Over a four-year period Una travelled in England, Ireland, Switzerland and the United States speaking with people who knew her parents and grandparents. Alongside painful and shameful family secrets, she discovered stories of great emotional courage, resilience and abiding love.
Download or read book For Pete’s Sake written by Peter F Barry and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2023-11-05 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this extraordinary memoir, Peter Barry recounts a life full of misdeeds and misadventures, tough times and unexpected pitfalls, shot through with many magical moments of providence, coincidence, absurdity and sheer good fortune. From a childhood on a hilltop farm – as the landscape of rural Northern England changed forever – to building the legendary Snowy Dam in Australia, from playing gigs in Lancashire village halls to recording albums in Australia and entertaining troops in the Vietnam War, Peter Barry’s long and colourful life has bumped up against history, time after time, in a truly remarkable way. This is the first volume of a story – from 1939 to 1970 – in which the ever-resourceful, ever-hopeful Peter observes the end of an era in England and the start of a new one in Australia, falls in love with the East and, again and again, finds himself in the right spot at just the right time.
Book Synopsis The Burden Within by : Christopher G Thompson
Download or read book The Burden Within written by Christopher G Thompson and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2022-03-31 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born into a wealthy family in England in 1942, Christopher could’ve expected a privileged life. It was not to be. At six years of age, he entered boarding school. The burden of undiagnosed dyslexia led to an aversion to schoolwork, and violent sexual abuse from a fellow boarder became the impetus for leaving school. He embarked on a life of hard manual labour, before returning to his parents’ farm, but continual frustrations between him and his father culminated in a stint of involuntary commitment. On release in 1964, he left for Australia as a ‘10 Pound Pom’. For the next ten years, he roamed Australia – working in its cities, rural towns, and outback. But a rolling stone gathers no moss. Christopher, the adventurer, insidiously became a hard-working, hard-drinking and hard-playing drifter on a downward spiral. In 1973, on a remote aboriginal settlement in the Northern Territory, new things impacted him and became the impetus for him to think he may have a future – if he survived. True stories provide insight into the tortuous journey of a lonely, insecure child and young man in England; a unique view through the eyes of an immigrant drifter in Australia; and the rollercoaster ride of reintegrating himself into mainstream society.
Download or read book Hornes Down Under written by Tony Horne and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2009 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a travel story of a family trying to re-introduce themselves to each other after many a stressful year, following a route down the side of Australia dictated principally by campsites in the esteemed 'Big 4' group.
Download or read book Transnational Lives written by D. Deacon and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-01-29 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transnationalism of ordinary lives threatens the stability of national identity and unsettles the framework of national histories and biography. This book takes mobility, not nation, as its frame, and captures a rich array of lives, from the elite to the subaltern, that have crossed national, racial and cartographic boundaries.
Book Synopsis No Job for a Woman by : Sallyanne Atkinson
Download or read book No Job for a Woman written by Sallyanne Atkinson and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2016-09-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘A true trailblazer for her generation ...’ Sallyanne Atkinson was the first female Lord Mayor of Brisbane, the first female senior trade commissioner to Paris and has been a leader in business and corporate life for over four decades. No Job for a Woman takes us from her wartime childhood in Sri Lanka through her early career as a journalist and TV personality into her life in politics. For the first time Sallyanne Atkinson offers a behind-the-scenes look at her dynamic and colourful life, including her involvement in three Olympics bids. A trailblazer for working mothers, Sallyanne shares the challenges and the triumphs of raising five children while forging a high-profile career. With her characteristic warmth and humour, she shows how she defied the expectations of a generation.
Download or read book TC written by Tom Carroll and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2015-02 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The former professional surfer tells his own story On the surface he was Tom Carroll, dreamer, brilliant surfer, Australian sports hero, fitness fanatic, businessman, family man, and big wave charger. But inside turned the terrible wheel of drug addiction--part family curse, part legacy of the footloose surf culture he'd done so much to legitimize. Tom's family and friends struggled with him, kept his secrets, and looked on in anger and fear as the wheel began to grind him down. Then a window opened, but getting through it made charging Pipeline look like a piece of cake. This is the story of an unlikely moral education: of humility, family, damage, brotherhood, youth, stupidity, glory, single-mindedness, and surrender, and about the feeling of water moving under a surfboard, how it can bind past to present and make sense of lives.
Book Synopsis The Adventures of Oliver Twist by : Charles Dickens
Download or read book The Adventures of Oliver Twist written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
