Download or read book The Old Man in the Mountain and Other Stories written by Fairbanks and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring widely diverse settings-from the wilds of the Australian Outback to urban adventures to biblical lands-this collection of short stories, poems, and other writings celebrates what it is to be Australian. It encompasses love, revenge, debauchery, wonder, loss, and uncertainty, but a common thread of hope emerges from the colourful and eccentric writings of bush author Fairbanks. An elder Aboriginal storyteller regales a group of eager tourists with an ancient story of betrayal, loss, and clever deception by "The Old Man in the Mountain." In "Tjamiti Ngunytji," an American youth is rescued by a character living in a remote outback Aboriginal community. After the devastating Black Saturday Bushfire destroyed his Victoria home and manuscripts, Fairbanks was inspired to capture the fleeting reflections of such an experience in "The Smouldering Stump." Life is, has always been, and will continue to be a complex thing, shaped by friendship and love bonds, ugliness and conflict, anticipation and uncertainty, comedy and joy, tragedy, mystery, and more. Above all, there is hope and beauty for those who look for it. The Old Man in the Mountain and Other Stories celebrates the many threads in the colourful tapestry of life with the quirky, sometimes irreverent Aussie sense of humour.
Download or read book Slim Another Day Another Town written by Slim Dusty and published by Hachette Australia. This book was released on 2014-11-25 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia's greatest country singer-songwriter Slim Dusty's own story, written with Joy McKean, his wife for 50 years - now updated. 'It seems I've done most things I wanted to do, but of all things, I think I most enjoy finding good songs and recording them. There are so many songs I want to record that I will be kept busy for as long as I can keep it up ... It is the people you meet along the road of life who make the travelling easier. No wonder I loved it all.' - Slim Dusty Slim Dusty was Australia's most well-loved and best known country music performer. A legend in the bush, his famous hit 'A Pub With No Beer' made him a household name in the towns and cities too. This is the story of the life that Slim Dusty and Joy McKean shared for their fifty years of marriage and touring together - their love for each other, their family and their music - and their determination to bring country music to the whole of Australia. Slim died in 2003, but throughout Australia, and around the world, people are still playing his songs and passing them on to new generations of fans. In this updated edition of the classic autobiography, Joy McKean writes about her family's commitment to honouring his memory and their work to keep his name alive. If you love today's Australian country music, this is the story of where it all started. '... just like his lyrics, the prose is perfect. Here he is talking about the early Dusty days. It's just like listening to a bright spark in the bush.' - The Age 'Slim blazed the red-dirt trail for Australian singer/songwriters, allowing us to remain unashamedly ourselves.' - Missy Higgins
Download or read book Rigby s Romance written by Joseph Furphy and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rigby's Romance by Joseph Furphy is the stunning yet steamy love story between adventurer Tom Collins and his old love, Kate. Tom Collins is traveling to Yooringa from Echuca to fulfill a contract on a cattle run. He also hopes to meet up with his old friend Jefferson Rigby. On the way, he encounters Kate Vanderdecken, Rigby's former sweetheart, who has traveled to Australia searching for him.
Download or read book Wallaby written by Rod Maclean and published by Wakefield Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rod Maclean, author, journalist and television news presenter, is 48 and has cancer. In the final year of his life he writes of his work, of travels with his beloved wife Teddi, and of the sadness of dying.
Download or read book Trackless written by M.A. Hill and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-05-31 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRACKLESS: A JOURNEY THAT FOLLOWS NO TRAILS by MA Hill tells of the power of dreams and destiny. Is what we want what we need? Can we choose our path in life? Set in Australia between the 1950's and 80's this book evokes a poetic vision of the vast distances of the land and the dissolving polarities between the truth of reality and the mystery of illusion. Magic and myth interweave in this novel of betrayal and deceit. This is the story of Aidan Randell, who abandons his career as an architect in a quest for art and freedom. When he meets gifted musician, Gwenyth Chamberlain, the ramparts of the safe world she has constructed fracture into chaos. Is it fate, foretold by Viking Ru nestones cast by the strange dancer, Dolfine? Random chance? Or the inevitable consequences of cause and effect of action and reaction? Are they driven by profound love and devotion, or lust and desperation? Is the treasure a priceless antique violin, or just a wooden box with strings a worthless fake? From the mansions of the wealthy and powerful, to beach shacks and remote desert camps from sailing super-yachts and driving 4WD on outback tracks they journey into the wilderness of the soul and discover bedrock.
Download or read book Where Ya Been Mate written by Herb Wharton and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unforgettable characters emerge from this vintage Herb Wharton collection which ranges from city to bush, from tall tales to amusing parables. There? Rainbow Jack the opal digger; Dr Roo, who when the dingbats are upon him boxes his own shadow; and stockmen with nicknames such as Wild Duck, Grease Paint and Diamond Jim. Along with campfire yarns and memories drawn from childhood are stories from Herb? other life in the big city and on the literary trail.
Download or read book Dark Tales from the Long River written by David Price and published by Fremantle Press. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From searches for serial killers and missing persons to the persecution of migrants and Aboriginal people, David Price takes us back to a time when the line between lawmakers and criminals was lightly drawn. Based on a wide array of contemporaneous accounts of life in the Gascoyne, these sometimes shocking, sometimes disturbing true crime stories depict an era when laws served to maintain order rather than to secure justice. Dark Tales from the Long River offers a window into an evolving history of colonisation that is still struggling into the light.
Download or read book Prisoner Litigation written by Jim Thomas and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1988 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '...a brilliant investigation...Thomas' book not only is an excellent descriptive and interpretive analysis but it will surely provide the basis of further research on JHLs and jailhouse lawyering. It presently stands as the definitive statement on the subject.'-CONTEMPORARY SOCIOLOGY
Download or read book Australia written by Margo Daly and published by Rough Guides. This book was released on 2003 with total page 1280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With fresh journalistic writing and reams of information on what to see and do, this guide takes readers from the big cities to the countryside. Includes candid reviews on restaurants and accommodations for all budgets. 83 maps. Full-color insert. Two-color throughout.
Download or read book The Final Cartwheel written by Lawrence Winkler and published by Lawrence Winkler. This book was released on 2013-02-10 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Final Cartwheel is the story of a young doctor¿s return home, after a five-year hitchhiking odyssey around the world. Through East Asia, Indonesia, and around the Antipodes, the circle becomes unbroken.
Download or read book Harlequin Heartwarming January 2017 Box Set written by Tara Taylor Quinn and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harlequin Heartwarming brings you a collection of four new wholesome reads, available now! This Harlequin Heartwarming box set includes: THE COWBOY’S TWINS Family Secrets by Tara Taylor Quinn The Western segment of the Family Secrets cooking competition show is great for ratings. But as producer Natasha Stevens gets closer to her handsome cowboy cohost, Spencer Longfellow—and his adorable kids—she’s faced with a decision. One that has nothing to do with business. MENDING THE DOCTOR’S HEART State of the Union by Sophia Sasson Dr. Anna Atao has treated patients in some of the most dangerous and remote places on earth. There’s no disaster she can’t handle. Except the one that tore her life apart five years ago. Now a tsunami on the tiny island of Guam has forced her to return to the site of her personal tragedy…and the man she left there when her world fell apart. A BAXTER’S REDEMPTION by Patricia Johns She was once the belle of Haggerston, Montana. Wealthy and beautiful, Isabelle Baxter never thought about the people she stepped on. Now she’s back, claiming she’s changed. James Hunter refuses to trust this new and improved Isabelle. No matter how much she draws him in… HIS BEST FRIEND’S WIFE The Finnegan Sisters by Lee McKenzie Paul Woodward has only ever loved one woman: Annie Finnegan. He stayed away because she was married to his best friend. Now the widow and single mom is busy looking after a big family, and Paul doesn’t want to be just her friend anymore. But if he pushes for more he risks losing everything.
Download or read book Animal Nation written by Adrian Franklin and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the complex relationship between animals and humans in Australia. Starts with the colonial period and brings us full circle to the present when native species are protected above all others.
Download or read book Kangaroo s Comments and Wallaby s Words written by Helen Jonsen and published by Hippocrene Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ideal book for those interested in things and people Australian, as well as travellers to Australia.
Download or read book Diamonds and Dust A Sheryl McCorry Memoir 1 written by Sheryl McCorry and published by Pan Australia. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sheryl McCorry grew up in the outback carrying crocodiles to school for show and tell. When she was 18 her family moved to Broome, and it was the first time she'd ever used a telephone or seen a television. A year later, only hours after being railroaded into marriage by a fast-talking Yank, Sheryl locked eyes with Bob McCorry, a drover and buffalo shooter. When her marriage ended after only a few months, they began a love affair that would last a lifetime and take them to the Kimberley's harshest frontiers. Sheryl became the only woman in a team of stockmen. She soon learned how to run rogue bulls and to outsmart the neighbours in the toughest game of all - mustering cattle. The playing field was a million acres of unfenced, unmarked boundaries. Sheryl went on to become the first woman in the Kimberley to run two million-acre cattle stations, but her life was not without its share of tragedy. Her story is an epic saga of life in one of the toughest and most beautiful terrains in Australia - a story of hardship, drought, joy and triumph.
Download or read book Such Is Life written by Joseph Furphy and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-05-10 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Such Is Life is an Australian novel written by Joseph Furphy under a pseudonym of “Tom Collins” and published in 1903. It purports to be a series of diary entries by the author, selected at approximately one-month intervals during late 1883 and early 1884. “Tom Collins” travels rural New South Wales and Victoria, interacting and talking at length with a variety of characters including the drivers of bullock-teams, itinerant swagmen, boundary riders, and squatters (the owners of large rural properties). The novel is full of entertaining and sometimes melancholy incidents mixed with the philosophical ramblings of the author and his frequent quotations from Shakespeare and poetry. Its depictions of the Australian bush, the rural lifestyle, and the depredations of drought are vivid. Furphy is sometimes called the “Father of the Australian Novel,” and Such Is Life is considered a classic of Australian literature.
Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1985-02-25 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
