Download or read book One for the Road written by Tony Horwitz and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Journey Into the Australian Outback written by Warren Dent and published by Krandis. This book was released on 2015-06-05 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Outback, the unexpected is always expected. The land is wild and inhospitable. Man has no business here. But he ventures here anyway, and often pays the highest price of unwelcomeness. Even the native animals make themselves scarce in this unwatered country. But man's inherent penchant to explore brings him here anyway. And so it was for two of us who wanted to touch the edge of the Never-Never-Land. The iconic Birdsville Track has long represented a major challenge of macho manliness. Year after year it has claimed victims with its insatiable thirst for inexperienced newcomers who thought they were fearless and could survive whatever was thrown their way. Only to find their self-beliefs were false as they perished in the scorching sun's rays and the searing winds that blew the sand dunes to new locations. Like others, we tried to be better prepared and fully ready for the unexpected. Even so, when it hit us, it became the scariest moment ever experienced in our fragile lives. This story dates back 50 years. Much has changed in the interior of Australia since then. A graded dirt road now exists between Birdsville and Marree, and well organized Eco-tours allow one to explore the back country in safety. Living and traveling conditions were a lot harder and riskier half a century ago. There were no cell phones for communication, just limited two-way radio in the ranchers' homes, but not for those passing through their realm. As a city-bred lad I was relatively ignorant of life 'beyond the black stump', so there were numerous mind-opening learnings from my trip. This memoir is carefully derived from notes made at the time. Added to the memories are the personal reflections and learnings from the trip that have impacted me positively over the ensuing years. In retrospect, our bold venture to the fringe of aborigine-only country was an amazing awakening to just how mere and vulnerable we mortals are.
Download or read book Gurindji Journey written by Minoru Hokari and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After immersing himself in the culture of a remote Australian Indigenous community for close to a year, the young Japanese scholar Minoru Hokari emerged with a new world view. Gurindji Journey tells of Hokari's experience living with the Gurindji people of Daguragu and Kalkaringi in the Northern Territory of Australia, absorbing their way of life, and beginning to understand Aboriginal modes of seeing and being. This is a personal, philosophical, lyrical record of his journey into Indigenous Australian culture. Part memoir, part history, part theory, Gurindji Journey is the story of Hokari's discovery of Gurindji modes of history and historical practice. It is a work that opens up new pathways for approaching cross-cultural history, anthropology and historical epistemology.
Download or read book When You See the Emu in the Sky written by Elizabeth Fuller and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trying to escape from grief over the death of her husband, Elizabeth Fuller embarks with her 12-year-old son on a journey to the Australian Outback. Seeking answers she has no questions for, she finds herself a participant in "the most meaningful and exciting adventure on earth". In this other world, when her heart seems most wrenched and she feels most out of place, Fuller enters through a gateway to comfort and love.
Download or read book Back to Billabong written by Mary Grant Bruce and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Back to Billabong" by Mary Grant Bruce sees the author's beloved characters Norah, Jim, David, and Wally, return back to their home in Australia after four years away during the First World War. However, their return is met with droughts, fires, and other catastrophes that threaten to impede them from settling back into the home they missed for so long. Focusing on family values and fortitude, the book is a heartwarming tale of strength and support.
Download or read book From Alice to Ocean written by Robyn Davidson and published by Addison Wesley Publishing Company. This book was released on 1992 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the story of an Australian woman who set off to cross the outback, accompanied only by 4 camels and a dog. Photo CD contains photographs and narration. Apple CD contains an interactive program for the user to join the trip.
Download or read book Tracks written by Robyn Davidson and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1995-05-30 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author recounts her almost two-thousand mile journey across Australia with nothing but a dog and some camels for company.
Download or read book Dreamkeepers written by Harvey Arden and published by Perennial. This book was released on 1995 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular account of authors encounters with Aboriginal people and culture in the Kimberley and Great Sandy Desert; definition of Dreamtime, contemporary political background; based on conversations with Daisy Utemorrah, Ted Carlton, Jim Ward, Danny Wallace, George Wallaby, Reg Birch, Betty Johnston, Jack Rogers, Billy Oscar, Banjo Woorunmarra and David Mowaljarlai; visits to Wandjina art site, Waringarri, Mowanjum, Emu Creek, Kununurra, Balgo, Halls Creek and Yiyilu; relationship to land, parallels with native Americans; land rights; alcohol abuse; station life; mythology (eagle hawk, Billaluna region, Wandjina); mining industry; ATSIC; Christianity; law and punishment; healing; smoking ceremony; music; Pigeon (Jandamarra); Mowaljarlais Body of Australia vision.
Download or read book Inside Tracks written by and published by . This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At once the story of a twenty-seven-year-old Australian woman who sets off to cross the desolute Western Australia desert with her camels and dog; a fascinating pictorial journal by photographer Rick Smolan, taken while photographing her journey; and an inside look at the images and screenplay of the extraordinary movie based on the now-famous trek.
Download or read book Yanks in the Outback written by Dave Ives and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-05-21 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What role did the remote satellite tracking station near Woomera South Australia play during the First Gulf War? What was it like when Aussies and Yanks lived and worked together while the Joint Defense Facility Nurrungar (JDFN) - now closed - was in operation? These questions are answered in Dave Ives' book, "Yanks in the Outback." Dave's story - although fiction - is based on his experience as a young US Air Force lieutenant stationed at the JDFN from February 1990 until May 1991. Written in diary format, Dave takes us with him on his personal journey "Down Under" ... how he deals with living in the remote outback, how he struggles at first with the Aussie accent, how he handles challenges as the sole military satellite systems engineer on site. The role of the JDFN during the First Gulf War is well documented in the public literature. The fact that operators from the JDFN were detecting and reporting SCUD missile launches in the Middle East war zone is no secret. But, Dave's story gives us a unique perspective - an inside, emotional and personal look at life at the JDFN before, during and just after the war. And, he presents a powerful case challenging the official story about the role the JDFN played in the SCUD missile launch that hit the barrack housing US soldiers in Saudi Arabia on 26 February 1991.
Download or read book Woman Alone written by Laine Cunningham and published by Sun Dogs Creations. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Last Prince of Bengal written by Lyn Innes and published by Saqi Books. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nawab Nazim was born into one of India's most powerful royal families. Three times the size of Great Britain, his kingdom ranged from the soaring Himalayas to the Bay of Bengal. However, the Nawab was seen as a threat by the British authorities, who forced him to abdicate in 1880 and permanently abolished his titles. The Nawab's change in fortune marked the end of an era in India and left his secret English family abandoned. The Last Prince of Bengal tells the true story of the Nawab Nazim and his family as they sought by turns to befriend, settle in and eventually escape Britain. From glamourous receptions with Queen Victoria to a scandalous Muslim marriage with an English chambermaid; and from Bengal tiger hunts to sheep farming in the harsh Australian outback, Lyn Innes recounts her ancestors' extraordinary journey from royalty to relative anonymity. This compelling account visits the extremes of British rule in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, exposing complex prejudices regarding race, class and gender. It is the intimate story of one family and their place in defining moments of recent Indian, British and Australian history. 'I was captivated and surprised by this bitter-sweet history as it twists and turns down three generations, through many astonishing changes of fame and fortune, from a glittering Bengal palace to an Australian sheep farm. Lovingly researched and meticulously told, The Last Prince of Bengal is notable for its candid revelations of British colonial attitudes and hypocrisies across two centuries. A rich, delightful and unexpectedly thought-provoking saga.' -- Richard Holmes Lyn Innes explores her ancestors' history in moving detail, capturing the tragic story of the dethroned princes of Bengal who had to make their lives in foreign lands, marked forever by the harsh legacy of Empire.'-- Shrabani Basu, author of Victoria and Abdul: The Extraordinary True Story of the Queen's Closest Confidant
Download or read book Landlopers written by John Le Gay Brereton and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Landlopers by John Le Gay Brereton is the story of a group of drifters in Britain and the wild and humbling record of their travels. Excerpt: "I cannot offer you cakes and ale, But campfire bread and a billy of tea— A loafer's dream and a swagman's tale. I cannot offer you cakes and ale, But a johnny-cake and some post-and-rail I trust you'll share by the track with me. I cannot offer you cakes and ale, But—campfire bread and a billy of tea!"
Download or read book A Country in Mind written by Saskia Beudel and published by Apollo Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chunk of land bordering Western Australia, South Australia, and Queensland is known as Namatjira. For most of us it is remote; geographically and metaphorically it is the heart of Australia. After a period of loss and much change, Saskia Beudel was inspired to begin long distance walking. Within 18 months, she had walked Australia's Snowy Mountains, twice along the South Coast of Tasmania, the MacDonnell Ranges west of Alice Springs, the Arnhem Land plateau in Kakadu, the Wollemi National Park in New South Wales, and in Ladakh in the Himalayas. Throughout the course of her journeys, she experienced passages of reverie, of forgetfulness, of absorption in her surroundings, of an immense but simple pleasure, and of rhythm. The book that emerged contrasts her internal landscape with the external landscape, considering her relationships with her family in the context of environmental and anthropological histories. It champions the history of Australia's Namatjira country and conveys social and environmental issues. A Country in Mind is a narrative memoir of one woman's reflections on home, family, and belonging, while traversing remote and ancient landscapes. *** "The Australian Outback is depicted with such gorgeous language in Beudel's book that it almost feels as though you're seeing it with your own eyes. There is, however, more to this book than just description. The history and spirituality of the region is the glue that binds this alluring memoir together and turns it into a journey through Australia unlike any other." - World Literature Today, Jan/Feb 2015Ã?Â?Ã?Â?Ã?Â?Ã?Â?
Download or read book Living in the Australian Outback written by Jane Bingham and published by Heinemann-Raintree Library. This book was released on 2007 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wat are the hundreds of dreaming tracks in the desert? What happens at a corroboree? What would you do with a witchetty grub? Many Australian Aboriginal people live in the enormous region called the Central Desert in Australia. There are a lot of weird and wonderful things in the desert, including giant blood-red rocks, wallabies, carpet snakes, and honey ants. Book jacket.
Download or read book Icing on the Damper written by Marie Mahood and published by Boolarong Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the real life story of the Outback that will make you proud to be Australian. The Mahood family are battlers who never ask for something for nothing and who never give up. Join the Mahood's in the desert at Mongrel Downs' somewhere West of Alice Springs.
Download or read book Australia written by Linda Pickwell and published by QED Books. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this exciting six-title series, young readers don't need a passport to sail up the Nile River, explore the Australian outback, or smell the spices of an Indian market. Each title features evocative photographic portraits of one of the world's most intriguing countries, enhanced with easy-to-read text, activities to develop creative thinking skills, and colorful maps.
