Download or read book Meet Nancy Bird Walton written by Grace Atwood and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A picture book series about the extraordinary men and women who have shaped Australia's history, including Australia's first female commercial pilot, Nancy Bird Walton. Nancy Bird Walton grew up during the golden age of aviation. By the time she was 13, Nancy knew she wanted to fly. This is the story of how Nancy began her career as Australia’s first female commercial pilot.
Download or read book Meet Nancy Bird Walton written by Grace Atwood and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2015-09 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nancy Bird Walton grew up during the golden age of aviation. By the time she was 13, Nancy knew she wanted to fly. This is the story of how Nancy began her career as Australia's first female commercial pilot.
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Download or read book Nancy Bird Walton Picture written by Roy Norry and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book QF32 written by Richard de Crespigny and published by Macmillan Publishers Aus.. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: QF32 is the award winning bestseller from Richard de Crespigny, author of the forthcoming Fly!: Life Lessons from the Cockpit of QF32 On 4 November 2010, a flight from Singapore to Sydney came within a knife edge of being one of the world's worst air disasters. Shortly after leaving Changi Airport, an explosion shattered Engine 2 of Qantas flight QF32 - an Airbus A380, the largest and most advanced passenger plane ever built. Hundreds of pieces of shrapnel ripped through the wing and fuselage, creating chaos as vital flight systems and back-ups were destroyed or degraded. In other hands, the plane might have been lost with all 469 people on board, but a supremely experienced flight crew, led by Captain Richard de Crespigny, managed to land the crippled aircraft and safely disembark the passengers after hours of nerve-racking effort. Tracing Richard's life and career up until that fateful flight, QF32 shows exactly what goes into the making of a top-level airline pilot, and the extraordinary skills and training needed to keep us safe in the air. Fascinating in its detail and vividly compelling in its narrative, QF32 is the riveting, blow-by-blow story of just what happens when things go badly wrong in the air, told by the captain himself. Winner of ABIA Awards for Best General Non-fiction Book of the Year 2013 and Indie Awards' Best Non-fiction 2012 Shortlisted ABIA Awards' Book of the Year 2013
Download or read book Meet Sidney Nolan written by Yvonne Mes and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2015 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A picture book series about the extraordinary men and women who have shaped Australia's history, including iconic painter Sidney Nolan.Sidney Nolan is one of Australia s most admired and recognised visual artists. This is the story of how he developed his iconic Ned Kelly series of paintings, brought modernist art to Australia and took Australian art to an admiring international audience. From Ned Kelly to Saint Mary MacKillop; Captain Cook to Banjo Paterson, the Meet ... series of picture books tells the exciting stories of the men and women who have shaped Australia's history."
Download or read book Diary of a Time Traveler written by David Long and published by Wide Eyed Editions. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet some of history's most illustrious and interesting characters in this book that visits key moments of the past from around the world. When young Augustus falls asleep in history class, Professor Tempo decides to teach him a lesson and show him that history isn't boring at all! She hands him a magic diary, all he needs to do is write the time and place to travel there. Together they head out on a whistle-stop tour of history through the ages to meet some of the world's finest explorers, inventors, leaders, writers, composers and painters, including Albert Einstein, Mozart, Louis XIV, Shakespeare, Leonardo Da Vinci, Christopher Columbus Genghis Khan, Emperor Titus in Rome, athletes at the very first Olympic Games, Tutankhamen in Egypt, and even Palaeolithic man as he discovers fire. Each double page spread introduces a different time and place, with an introductory text from Augustus which explains the sights and sounds, and accompanying captions from the Professor which provide key facts. A character index at the rear gives a short biography of all the historical characters covered, and a timeline helps to contextualize the different time periods covered.
Download or read book I m a T Rex written by Dennis R. Shealy and published by Golden Books. This book was released on 2012-04-25 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dinosaur book with humor and fun facts—perfect for the youngest dino fans! "I'm a T. rex! I ROARRRR and I romp! I GRRROWWLLL and I stomp! I'm a T. rex." In this brand-new Little Golden Book, a T. rex tells all about his great and terrible self. Facts about the T. rex are humorously presented: "Does the T stand for toothy? Does the T stand for tall? Does the T stand for terrible? I am known as them all!" The ending reveals a surprise: the T. rex is still a baby in a nest, watched over lovingly by his "great BIG MAMA T. rex!" This Little Golden Book is illustrated by Brian Biggs, one of today's most in-demand illustrators. He brings to life the popular Shredderman books by Wendelin Van Draanen. Author Dennis Shealy is a children's book editor and the author of the popular Little Golden Book I'm a Truck, illustrated by the award-winning artist Bob Staake.
Download or read book Meet the ANZACs written by Claire Saxby and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A picture book series about the extraordinary men and women who have shaped Australia's history, including our brave Anzac soldiers. Anzac stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. It is the name given to the Australian and New Zealand troops who landed at Gallipoli in World War I. The name is now a symbol of bravery and mateship. From Ned Kelly to Saint Mary MacKillop; Captain Cook to Douglas Mawson, the Meet ... series of picture books tells the exciting stories of the men and women who have shaped Australia's history.
Download or read book Meet Don Bradman written by Coral Vass and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2016-04-18 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A picture book series about the extraordinary men and women who have shaped Australia’s history, including cricket’s greatest ever batsman, Sir Donald Bradman. Don Bradman was Australia’s greatest cricketer. This is the story of how he first came to play for Australia, and how his record-breaking feats in the Ashes series became a source of pride and hope during the hard years of the Great Depression. From Ned Kelly to Saint Mary MacKillop; Captain Cook to Banjo Paterson, the Meet ... series of picture books tells the exciting stories of the men and women who have shaped Australia's history.
Download or read book Great Australian Aviation Stories written by Jim Haynes and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: today flying is part of our everyday lives; we take a plane to go on a holiday, to attenda wedding, a funeral, a birthday or a reunion - even for our work. Yet only 75 years ago the skies were still the domain of pioneers and adventurers. this was the era of Australia's aviation legends. Join Jim Haynes and Jillian Dellit in a very special tribute to Australia's rich aviation history as they share the stories of the characters, pioneers, heroes and adventurers whose triumphs, tragedies and near misses made commercial flight a reality for us all. Here are the amazing true stories of Smithy, Ross and Keith Smith, Bert Hinkler, Amy Johnson and Nancy Bird-Walton - and many more, less famous but no less brave. Great Australian Aviation Stories includes tales of our early outback aviation pioneers and daring feats of bravery by our flyers in both World Wars. Stirring first-handaccounts of history-making flights across uncharted oceans and continents by Kingsford Smith and Ross and Keith Smith go hand-in-hand with the history of towns like Mildura and Narromine, which became aviation centres and remain part of our heritage.
Download or read book Meet Douglas Mawson written by Mike Dumbleton and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2014-06-02 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A picture book series about the extraordinary men and women who have shaped Australia's history, including the great Antarctic explorer, Sir Douglas Mawson. Douglas Mawson led the first Australian expedition to the Antarctic. Meet Douglas Mawson tells the story of how Mawson survived the dangers and challenges of the frozen continent. From Ned Kelly to Saint Mary MacKillop; Captain Cook to the ANZACS and Douglas Mawson, the Meet ... series of picture books tells the exciting stories of the men and women who have shaped Australia's history.
Download or read book Meet Sidney Nolan written by Yvonne Mes and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2016-08 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sidney Nolan was one of Australia's most renowned artists. This is the story of how Sidney came to create his iconic Ned Kelly paintings.
Download or read book My God It s a Woman written by Nancy Bird and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1933, when women were still expected to man the nation's kitchens, 19-year-old Nancy Bird obtained her commercial pilot's licence. This autobiography spans Nancy's flying experiences in the Outback, her travels in Europe and America and her flying comeback in the 1950s.
Download or read book Meet Captain Cook written by Rae Murdie and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain Cook was the first European to discover the eastern coast of Australia. Along with his crew on the HMB Endeavour, Cook set out from England with royal orders to look for signs of the great southern land known as Terra Australis, which they chartered in 1788. This picture book series features the extraordinary men and women who have shaped Australia's history.
Download or read book Meet Mary MacKillop written by Sally Murphy and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A picture book series about the extraordinary men and women who have shaped Australian history, including St Mary Mackillop. Mary MacKillop is Australia’s first saint. Mary was born in the 1800s and devoted her life to teaching children. Mary believed everyone should have the chance to learn, no matter how rich or poor they are. In 1866 she set up her first school and founded an order of nuns called the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart. The Sisters continue to do the good work Mary started.
