Download or read book My Mornington Peninsula Adventure written by Jo Rothwell and published by Lion Hudson CHECK. This book was released on 2006 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harry and Nelly's adventure takes them to the Mornington Peninsula where they play chase with a very unusual sand sculpture. "An odd thing occurred when I stood back to look,The leg on my sand beast wiggled and shook.It opened its mouth, said 'G'day, name is Clive',I'd created a sand monster, and now it's ALIVE!"
Download or read book No Adventure Too Ridiculous written by Rusty Hix and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-15 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rusty Hix first developed a love of travel and adventure when he accompanied his family across the United States as a young boy. As he matured into a young man, Rusty began traveling internationally to feed his curiosity for understanding the worlds greatest mysteries. From hiking in national parks to caving in foreign countries, Hixs fascinating stories detail unforgettable adventures in Cancun, Costa Rica, Australia, New Zealand, China, Easter Island, Finland, and many other locations. In sometimes irreverent prose, Hix chronicles his not-so-typical travel tales of helicoptering over the geothermal areas of New Zealand; zip-lining, kayaking, and whitewater rafting in Costa Rica; and visiting pagodas, Buddhist temples, and the Great Wall in China. He also describes many of the wild experiences that include a panda sitting on his lap, vertical caving, sky diving, climbing the worlds highest structure, and a serious car accident that nearly cost him his life. Hix also details the food, customs and behavior of people within a variety of cultures along with vivid descriptions of the scenery where it all takes place. No Adventure Too Ridiculous is a colorful celebration of one mans escapades as he explores far-flung places on a legendary and sometimes farcical journey around the world.
Download or read book No Time For Fear written by Paul De Gelder and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-04-11 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IMPROVISE. ADAPT. OVERCOME. These three words the mantra of the Australian Army resonated with Paul de Gelder the first time he heard them. Paul chased adventure wherever he could find it, from his wild ride as a hoodlum teen and his drug-and-alcohol fuelled stint working in a strip club to hauling his way up to the elite echelons of the defence forces. But trouble hunted him down in the form of a brutal shark in February 2009. Paul lost two limbs, and his career as a daredevil navy clearance diver was flung into jeopardy. Drawing on everything his eventful life had taught him, Paul left nothing to chance in his recovery. He fought through excruciating pain, smashing challenge after challenge, and amazing the medical staff with his will to succeed. His inspiring story takes 'never say die' to a whole new level. From rebel, drug dealer and strip club worker to adventurer, soldier, fitness enthusiast, Navy diver, shark attack survivor, top motivational speaker and mentor to schoolkids across Australia, Paul de Gelder is an exceptional young man. He is now determined to carve out the best future for himself he could possibly imagine. Paul is a true survivor and an incredible inspiration.
Download or read book My Sydney Adventure written by Jo Rothwell and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow the adventures of Harry and his wombat Nelly as they search the city of Sydney for the perfect circus spot. Sydney will never be the same after this circus have been to town!
Download or read book Ice Journey written by Dave Morgan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ice Journey is the biography of Vietnam veteran Dave Morgan, whose long career in meteorology culminated with a life-changing expedition to Antarctica. Like many of his fellow soldiers, Dave tried to present a “normal” face to the world while battling Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. It was a debilitating struggle that ultimately sparked a personal obsession to escape the bonds of average Australian society. In his early fifties, Dave turned to the seclusion and hardship of Antarctic research where postings to Macquarie Island, Davis Station and a prized position at Casey Station, finally forced him to face his fears, deal with his PTSD and come to terms with his experiences as a soldier in Vietnam. Dave carries his deeply buried demons from the jungles of Vietnam to the icy peaks of Antarctica; his journey to the ice fulfilling a lifelong dream while making him feel safe for the first time in 30 years. His experiences as an expeditioner on the starkly beautiful, harsh and inhospitable ‘ice’ was at once intoxicating and isolating, providing the catalyst for Dave to finally face his fears. It is an emotional journey that transports the reader from the terror of a young soldier fighting far away from home to exhilaration on the ice far from the rest of the world. It is a story filled with vivid landscapes and humour before a shocking final twist that ends his final posting in heart-wrenching fashion. While the ghosts of Vietnam still exist inside Dave, Ice Journey is an invitation to share in his experiences.
Download or read book Press Escape written by Shaun Carney and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-31 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Getting away was always a driving ambition for Shaun Carney—from an outer-suburban house in the 60s and 70s, from a family with a secret: a father with a double life and a borrowed name. Journalism gave Shaun that escape, to another life, to becoming a different person. For 34 years he took every opportunity it offered, flourished and knew success even while dealing with the personal struggle of his own child battling cancer. But a greater sense of freedom came when he forgave the people he’d wanted to flee and, unexpectedly, let go of the life that he’d worked so hard to create. In this beautifully crafted memoir one of Australia’s leading political journalists writes movingly about discovering the one story that really matters.
Download or read book Untamed Spirit written by Doris Maron and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 2001, at fifty-three years old, Doris Maron sold everything she owned, except her motorcycle and a few personal belongings, to live a dream. On August 4 of that year, Maron left Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, on her 750 cc Honda Magna to begin her journey around the world. Over the next two years and eleven months, she traveled across forty-four countries on six continents.
Download or read book Jetty Jumping written by Andrea Rowe and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Milla's friends take big, brave jumps off the jetty, Milla stays on the blistering wood, scared of what lurks below. But when Milla accidentally falls off the edge, she discovers the beauty of the deep, dark sea - and her summer changes forever. Andrea Rowe and Hannah Sommerville perfectly capture the challenges of childhood - and the joy of letting go - in this homage to summer.
Download or read book The Australian Adventure written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Granny by Pushi around in Australia written by Hermine Stampa-Rabe and published by epubli. This book was released on 2014-03-10 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 10.01.2014 hope to come by bicycle across the hell hot Nullarbor – through the Marry River Valley – along the Great Ocean Road – north to the Murray River – east to Yass – north in inland west of the mountains – Brisbane – further north in inland to Rockhampton – in the near of the Coast Line north to Townsville – west to the Stuart Highway – north to Darwin – Cockatoo Valley – crocodile feading - Stuart Highway south – Devil's Marbles – King's Canyon – Alice Springs - Stuart Highway south – up to the Nullarbor – Perth
Download or read book Secret Kill written by Robin Storey and published by Robin Storey via PublishDrive. This book was released on 2019-04-06 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He’s wealthy, successful and charming. But his criminal past is about to catch up with him. Businessman Jackson Forbes is at the pinnacle of his career, after leaving a life of crime well and truly behind. But when a young girl turns up in his office, claiming to be his daughter and threatening him with a gun, his life is suddenly not so rosy. Frida is on the run and needs his help. But saving her life will mean not only returning to the criminal underworld, but also risking his reputation – and his life. Not to mention the crime for which he was never caught... Secret Kill is Book 2 in Noir Nights, a series of stand-alone short novels in the crime/suspense genre. If you love complex characters and simmering tension with a strong noir flavour, you’ll love this novel. Click the Buy button to immerse yourself in this story of love, guilt and family ties.
Download or read book No Worries Mate written by Ken Ewell and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Worries, Mate is the journal of a modern-day swagman on a manly adventure in the land down under. Follow his manful exploits as he closes the pubs of Sydney, tramps about the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, cruises Victoria's Great Ocean Road, searches for the elusive Tasmanian devil, surfs the shores of Queensland, dives along the Great Barrier Reef, explores Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory, and as he manfully climbs Ayers Rock. Follow him also as he hones his manly virtues on the beach, around the barbie, at the track and in the Australian Outback. Needless to say, his are feats seldom seen in these, less than manful times.
Download or read book The Other Side of Absence written by Betty O'Neill and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-08-05 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Betty O’Neill grew up knowing very little about her father, Antoni. She knew that he had fled Poland after World War Two, that he had disappeared overnight when she was just an infant, and that his brief reappearance when she was a young adult had been a harrowing, painful ordeal. Fifty-five years after he deserted her family, Betty is determined to find out more. What drove him to abandon them, twice? What was his story? Who was Antoni Jagielski? Her search for truth takes Betty to Poland, where she unexpectedly inherits a family apartment from the half sister she never knew – a time capsule of her father’s life. Sifting through photos and letters she begins to piece together a picture of her father as a Polish resistance fighter, a survivor of Auschwitz and Gusen concentration camps, an exile in post-war England, and a migrant to Australia. But the deeper she searches, the darker the revelations about her father become, as Betty is faced with disturbing truths buried within her family. Honest, compelling, and meticulously researched, The Other Side of Absence is an elegant debut memoir of resilience and strength, and of a daughter reconciling the damage that families inherit from war.
Download or read book Alpamayo to Everest It s Not about the Summit written by Ian Hibbert and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-11-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ian Hibbert chronicles his adventures climbing the world's highest mountains in this gripping series of tales that reveals the power of grit, determination, and will. Filled with pictures, these memoirs delve into the challenges he overcame climbing the exotic mountains of the South American Andes, Nepal, Tibet, Pakistan, Africa, and New Zealand. At each stop, he enriched his body and soul. In the Peruvian mountains, he paid little mind to the Sendero Luminoso terrorists, even though a police chief guarded the group at the Los Portales Hotel. When a member of the group needed to convert U.S. dollars to Peruvian Intis at the bank, the National Police were employed to guard the delivery. At Cho Oyu, the sixth-highest mountain in the world at the Tibet-Nepal border of the Himalayan range, he was almost arrested and thrown into the brig amid the SARS outbreak when he was found to have an elevated temperature at a border crossing.
Download or read book It s Not All About Liz written by Liz Rankin and published by BalboaPress. This book was released on 2014-02-19 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is said that cancer reaches far beyond the body it attacks. Liz, the youngest of four siblings, spent the majority of her early years in Victoria and Tasmania. In her thirties, she followed her heart to the coast of New South Wales. By age thirty-nine, she was a wife and mother on the verge of a new life as a theology student. And then she heard the two words no woman ever wants to hear: breast cancer. It’s [Not] All About Liz! tells the true story of her battle with cancer through her eyes—and through those of her family. Liz; her older sister, Judy; her eldest daughter, Clara; and Joe, the family patriarch, each share a unique perspective on how Liz’s cancer impacted them. The experience took her family and friends on a roller-coaster ride of emotion, one that contained moments of heartbreaking darkness— but also unexpected light.
Download or read book The Grandest Bookshop in the World written by Amelia Mellor and published by Affirm Press. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pearl and Vally Cole live in a bookshop. And not just any bookshop. In 1893, Cole's Book Arcade in Melbourne is the grandest bookshop in the world, brimming with every curiosity imaginable. Each day brings fresh delights for the siblings: voice-changing sweets, talking parrots, a new story written just for them by their eccentric father. When Pearl and Vally learn that Pa has risked the Arcade - and himself - in a shocking deal with the mysterious Obscurosmith, the siblings hatch a plan. Soon they are swept into a dangerous game with impossibly high stakes: defeat seven challenges by the stroke of midnight and both the Arcade and their father will be restored. But if they fail Pearl and Vally won't just lose Pa - they'll forget that he and the Arcade ever existed.