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'What you are thinking about me is right,' says I, 'and it's wonderful and beautiful, and if you make it ugly for me I'll hate you for the rest of my life!' So flopping down and turning my poor brave face to the wall … I'm still glad I said that. Raised in a Sydney family of successful older brothers and sisters, young Barbara Whitley is determined to find her own direction. Her choices are instinctive but not always wise in the cramped world of the 1930s – a...
| Автор | Barbara Whitley |
In the 1890s in a bizarre social experiment, a band of over 500 Australians – mostly men and just three single women – sailed to South America to create a communal Utopia, a New Australia, in the jungles of Paraguay. One of them was a red-headed schoolteacher Mary Cameron, a poet and feminist, who left the writer Henry Lawson behind, despairing on the wharf. Politics in the Australian colony were soon tumultuous. Mary, rejected by one man she loved, married another, had a son, and she and her...
| Автор | Anne Whitehead |
It is the late 1960s. Rebellion and "doing your own thing" is in. But while the majority of Australians flock to the beaches, one young man heads inland to find his patch of dirt and follow his dream.<br /> <br />On the banks of Moonan Brook, surrounded by inhospitable and barely accessible bushland, a local on his horse stumbles across this twenty-three-year old with his inappropriate vehicle, a dog named Doggo, and a girlfriend sitting under a tree reading a book....
| Автор | Philip Du Rhone |
The Waters family amazed and inspired their neighbour Margaret Wentworth. She'd never met a man with bigger dreams than Ces, the charismatic father, nor one from such unpromising beginnings.<br /> <br />He'd bashed, thieved and pimped in Manchester slums, did time and migrated to Australia. There he planned an assault on some of the world of sport's most glittering prizes. Sons Dean, Guy and Troy rose to dizzying heights. Troy came close to a world title in a San Diego...
| Автор | Margaret Wentworth |
Obbie Todd and his wife Kelly Beth live in Chaplin, KY. After graduating from the University of Kentucky in 2008 with plans to attend dentistry school, Obbie decided to leave the United States and deliver the good news of Christ in the third world. Three continents and three mountain ranges later, he returned with a new purpose in life: to preach the Word of God. 'Mountain Man' is a book of adventure. A young man's search for identity and purpose becomes a chance to experience the...
| Автор | Obbie Todd |
Martin Sharp was an integral part of international Pop Art in the 1960s, magnified through his covers for OZ magazine in Sydney and London, his covers for Cream, and posters of Dylan, Hendrix and Donovan. His efforts at making The Yellow House and Luna Park cultural precincts were aided by his screen prints and exhibitions to flaunt the work of others, especially the singer Tiny Tim. <br /> <br />In this first of two volumes, Lowell Tarling offers us a way into the enigmatic and...
| Автор | Lowell Tarling |
In the 1890s after a period of social unrest, a brave band of Australians sailed from Sydney to found a communal Utopia in South America. Under the charismatic journalist William Lane, over 500 settlers, including poet Mary Gilmore, created a New Australia in the Paraguayan jungle. Their hopes soon collapsed. Many returned home. Others stayed, becoming part of the culture of their adopted country. They learned about Paraguay's Jesuit missions of the 17th and 18th centuries, perhaps the...
| Автор | Anne Whitehead |
Ion Idriess was a spotter for the famous Australian sniper, Billy Sing, and this book draws on his own experiences in the Gallipoli trenches during World War One. Sing had a reputation as an excellent marksman, lurking in the dark and silently sneaking up on the enemy. One day he was shot by a Turkish soldier. The bullet travelled down the barrel of his telescope, wounding both hands then went through his mouth, out his cheek and into his shoulder. He recovered from the injury, but was never...
| Автор | Ion Idriess |
Signs of a Struggle illustrates the creative journey, from working-class North East England to the current Queer-art scene of Sydney, through the eyes of award-winning artist Guy James Whitworth. Uniquely using the fierce and fabulous LGBTIQ community of Sydney as a visual metaphor, Whitworth contemplates life's challenges and triumphs. With dramatic backdrops including a troubled childhood, 80s London in the midst of the AIDS crisis, and activism for global transformation in the modern...
| Автор | Guy James Whitworth |
"El Segundo" is the compelling life story of Pastor James Newton's struggle and perseverance to break the bonds of repression and poverty, and find prosperity through a family tradition of faith and God's Grace. Set in the racially and socially divided cotton fields of Mississippi's Deep Slough, El Segundo shines an uncomfortable spotlight on the systemic oppression of the King Cotton Land Owners, the suffering of the people under these cruel conditions, and the «Secret»...
| Автор | Dana Matthews |
During WWII Australia's sports lovers were denied access to national and international sport, something which had captivated them since long before Federation.<br /> <br />The popularity of racing and prize fighting during this time was amazing. Two of the most admired sports heroes were a dynamic southpaw boxer named Vic Patrick and a thoroughbred equine diva named Flight. Their careers which ran side by side had great similarities. Each was extremely talented, each created...
| Автор | Peter Fenton |
Jeanette Crickett has lived for the past 20 years in the Fiji Islands. She is currently a Christian school principal.This book is a collection of short stories taken from her childhood spent in Sydney, Australia. Jeanette has lived most of her adulthood overseas. In Israel, she did volunteer work in Jerusalem's hospitals, in Hong Kong she was a Vietnamese refugee camp co-ordinator and music teacher and in China studied Mandarin and worked in IBM computer seismic sites.
| Автор | Jeanette Crickett |
A serious reference for those embarking on a culinary career…<br /> <br />International author and entrepreneur Juliana Frances shares a collection of inspirational stories from some of the world's most successful chefs.<br /> <br />You'll gain valuable insights that have never been shared before. Top chefs and growers of fine food discuss and address the challenges and adversities faced throughout their careers in these amazing interviews.<br /> <br...
| Автор | Juliana Frances |
'I reckon throwing that rock through the window of Phelan's butcher shop was one of the best things I ever did. But I didn't think so at the time …' So begins the Ted Egan story. Old Phelan presented Ted's mother with a bill:TO WINDOW BROKEN BY TEDDY EGAN£5 5s 0d.Ted was going to have to find the money.He got it as a paperboy, shouting 'Herooda paper!' on street corners. Jumping on and off the No. 20 tram rattling out of the city of Melbourne into Coburg....
| Автор | Ted Egan |
Martin Sharp was an integral part of international Pop Art in the 1960s, magnified through his covers for OZ magazine in Sydney and London, his covers for Cream, and posters of Dylan, Hendrix and Donovan. His efforts at making The Yellow House and Luna Park cultural precincts, were aided by his screen prints and exhibitions to flaunt the work of others, especially the singer Tiny Tim. In this second of two volumes, Lowell Tarling offers us a way into the enigmatic and reclusive artist, through...
| Автор | Lowell Tarling |
A real-life murder and legal drama set in the violent world of 1930s Melbourne. It was the crime that shocked Melbourne in 1936. An armed robbery of a teenage government messenger and the brutal murder of his elderly unarmed escort. Three known criminals were accused and tried four times but the prosecution and the police could never positively prove their guilt. The real-life violent Melbourne underworld in the 1930s is portrayed, together with the machinations of some fascinating characters in...
| Автор | Robin Grow |
Ted Egan was born in Melbourne and spent his first sixteen years there, described in his <i>The Paperboy's War</i>.<br />Since 1949 he has lived and worked in the Northern Territory, now based in Alice Springs, performing, writing, singing and recording his own songs, and collecting those of others.<br />He speaks two Aboriginal languages, and often lectures on Aboriginal language and issues. He is an inaugural Life Member of the Australian Stockman's Hall of...
| Автор | Ted Egan |
We are all on a journey. In life we are given a humble start and travel then individually. 'Journey of a Lifetime, Volume One' recounts the bumpy beginnings of my own journey, that of an ordinary citizen: World War II, refuge, childhood in after-war-Germany, exploring first: Europe, Asia Minor, North-Africa, where I met other people in their own environment and learnt also from them. Everything finds a place in a «Journey of a lifetime»: controversy, challenges, education, efforts,...
| Автор | Martin Kari |
The most controversial cop in Australian history, in his own words.<br /> <br />Roger Rogerson hasn't been a police officer for more than 20 years. Yet his name makes him, the most well-known 'detective-sergeant' in Australia.<br /> <br />He has been the subject of articles, appearances, profiles and books; portrayed in TV dramas; and recorded by covert listening devices at home for months.<br /> <br />Rogerson took up his own pen in prison....
| Автор | Roger Rogerson |
You'll never be a journalist's bootlace!'<br /> <br />This is the story behind the stories we think we know.<br /> <br />'The News Man' is a very personal look at the public face of news by one of Australia's most well-loved and respected news presenters of our time.<br /> <br />Mal Walden was seventeen when he applied for his first job in media. Starting out as a country radio announcer, he went on to work in Launceston and...
| Автор | Mal Walden |
Riding a motorbike in howling high winds and freezing temperatures to reach Nordkapp, the northern most point of Europe could have been disastrous. But for Shirley Hardy-Rix and Brian Rix it was one of the best days of their lives.<br /> <br />This is what the well-travelled retired couple had hoped for when they planned to fill a gap in their riding experience and take on Scandinavia, the old Silk Road in Central Asia and the world's largest country, Russia. They shipped their...
| Автор | Shirley Hardy-Rix |
This immaculately and painstakingly researched book, through its biographies of Oxley, Evans, Fraser and Harris explains the impulses that drove these men to explore and map the colony, to collect, identify and categorise its flora. But it succeeds in doing more than that because it also elucidates the motivations that drove them to become colonial entrepreneurs, farmers and businessmen, who in the pursuit of individual wealth advanced colonial prosperity. This important book makes an invaluable...
| Автор | Rob Tickle |
The first and best biography of the great Troubadour with artwork by Martin Sharp.<br /> <i>Throughout his lifetime, Tiny Tim was a repository of recorded music stemming from the early days of vaudeville to the latest chart favourites. But despite all these influences he remained a true original perfecting his performances as an outreach of his personality. True, he had some strange traits, but they did not impede on his enthusiastic kindness to people he loved, to the musicians he...
| Автор | Lowell Tarling |
This second edition has been brought up to date following the latest developments in the state. The human history of Western Australia, as of all Australia, stretches back some 60,000 years. It is often assumed that European colonisation was very recent relative to the rest of Australia, but in fact it was contemporary with the first penal colony in Queensland, and while a South Australian settlement was still a gleam in Londons eye. Albany was first settled in 1826 and the Swan River settlement...
| Автор | Russell Earls Davis |