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Author | : Hope Harshaw Evans |
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Total Pages | : 288 |
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Author | : Jack Drake |
Publisher | : Boolarong Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1921920513 |
In this volume, Drake focuses on the famous pastoral explorers, drovers and trail drivers; the poddydodgers, horse-thieves and rustlers; the wars of the land grabbers with Australian Aborigines and the American Indians; the clashes of lawless western entrepreneurs with the laws of the bit cities in the east; the colourful females who ventured our into a man¿s world and made thier names, the transport by puffing billies and famous stage coach lines and buckjumpers, roughriders and rodeos.
Author | : Richard Fotheringham |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 1992-01-31 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780521401562 |
Sport in Australian Drama, first published in 1992, provides an intelligent view of Australian society at play.
Author | : Historical Society of South Australia |
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Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 2002 |
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Author | : James Frank Dobie |
Publisher | : Wittliff Collections Literary |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9781623498016 |
"Steven L. Davis has combed through the works of this renowned Texas author, gathering together in one volume Dobie's most vital writings. He then meticulously edited Dobie's stories and essays to "prune away some of the brushy undergrowth" and bring Dobie's folksy, erudite voice bounding back to life. The result is The Essential J. Frank Dobie, a treasury that introduces new readers to Dobie--and reminds older ones that Dobie produced some of the most fascinating, best-informed writing about Texas. Dobie bore eloquent witness to the passing of ancient pastoral lifeways and he captured priceless social history, collecting vanishing folklore and vibrant human stories overlooked by historians of the era. Davis, a Dobie biographer, searched for the stories only Dobie could tell--those enriched by his matchless personal adventures. Dobie rode twisting mountain trails throughout remote Mexico in search of lost mines. He helped inspire Big Bend National Park and led efforts to save the Texas Longhorn from extinction. During World War II, he dodged German V-1 bombs in England and later saw the Nazi death camps and toured Hitler's chancellery. Believing that "Texas Needs Brains," Dobie was decades ahead of his time in championing civil rights and protecting the environment"--
Author | : Thomas Keneally |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2022-03-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1982169168 |
The award-winning author of modern classics such as Schindler’s List and Napoleon’s Last Island is at his triumphant best with this “engrossing and transporting” (Financial Times) novel about the adventures of Charles Dickens’s son in the Australian Outback during the 1860s. Edward Dickens, the tenth child of England’s most famous author Charles Dickens, has consistently let his parents down. Unable to apply himself at school and adrift in life, the teenaged boy is sent to Australia in the hopes that he can make something of himself—or at least fail out of the public eye. He soon finds himself in the remote Outback, surrounded by Aboriginals, colonials, ex-convicts, ex-soldiers, and very few women. Determined to prove to his parents and more importantly, himself, that he can succeed in this vast and unfamiliar wilderness, Edward works hard at his new life amidst various livestock, bushrangers, shifty stock agents, and frontier battles. By reimagining the tale of a fascinating yet little-known figure in history, this “roguishly tender coming-of-age story” (Booklist) offers penetrating insights into Colonialism and the fate of Australia’s indigenous people, and a wonderfully intimate portrait of Charles Dickens, as seen through the eyes of his son.
Author | : Kevin Kelly |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 2009-04-30 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 078674703X |
Out of Control chronicles the dawn of a new era in which the machines and systems that drive our economy are so complex and autonomous as to be indistinguishable from living things.
Author | : Aron Ralston |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2011-02-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1849835098 |
A day-by-day account of Aron Ralston's unforgettable survival story. On Saturday, 26 April 2003, Aron Ralston, a 27-year-old outdoorsman and adventurer, set off for a day's hike in the Utah canyons. Eight miles from his truck, he found himself in the middle of a deep and remote canyon. Then the unthinkable happened: a boulder shifted and snared his right arm against the canyon wall. He was trapped, facing dehydration, starvation, hallucinations and hypothermia as night-time temperatures plummeted. Five and a half days later, Aron Ralston finally came to the agonising conclusion that his only hope was to amputate his own arm and get himself to safety. Miraculously, he survived. 127 Hours is more than just an adventure story. It is a brave, honest and above all inspiring account of one man's valiant effort to survive, and is destined to take its place among adventure classics such as Touching the Void.
Author | : Candice Proctor |
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Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2020-11-16 |
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ISBN | : 9781945184123 |
Alternately poignant, uplifting, and laugh-out-loud funny, this is an enchanting tale of love, self-forgiveness, and the joyous discovery that it's never too late to become what you were meant to be.Stranded in Adelaide, South Australia, after the death of her former employer, Englishwoman Amanda Davenport is compelled by her rapidly dwindling resources to accept a position as governess on a sheep station in the wilds of the Australian outback. Frightened by the raw desolation she discovers there, Amanda is desperate to earn her passage home to England. Yet against her will, she finds herself irresistibly drawn to both the strange, haunting land and to the easy smile and rugged sensuality of the down-to-earth man who has made it his home.Struggling to bring up three irrepressible, motherless children on an isolated station plagued by all the hardships and dangers of the Flinders Ranges in the 1860s, Patrick O'Reilly thinks the last thing he needs in his life is a prim and proper English gentlewoman. But it isn't long before O'Reilly begins to suspect that Miss Davenport is not exactly what she seems . . .Rich with the memorable characters and flawless sense of time and place for which Candice Proctor is acclaimed, SEPTEMBER MOON is a heartwarming story of resilience and passion set against the harshly beautiful and untamed landscape of the Australian outback." . . . a consummate storyteller." -Publishers Weekly" . . . one of the best romance writers in the business today!" -The Literary TimesFrom the original 1999 Random House edition: In this, her third novel, the multitalented author of NIGHT IN EDEN returns to the glorious setting of nineteenth-century Australia, to the ancient, primal vistas of the outback, to a land as untamed as a man's soul . . . Patrick O'Reilly loves life in the wilderness. All he needs is his land, his work, and the company of the children he adores. The last thing he wants is the prim and proper Englishwoman who arrives to care for his unruly children. Amanda Davenport seems unprepared for the harshness of the place O'Reilly calls home, and yet he finds himself drawn to this proud woman and the fire he knows exists beneath her refined exterior.Accepting a joy as governess is the only way Amanda can earn passage back to her beloved England and away from this country she hates-rugged, uncivilized, intoxicating, like Patrick O'Reilly himself. Despite her fears, Amanda gradually awakens to the shimmering heat of this wild primitive land, to the children she can't help but love, and to this magnificent man whose raw sensuality dares to expose her own undeniable passion . . .