AITKEN,JONATHAN

Land of Fortune : A Study of the New Australia

London, Secker & Warburg. 1971. (ISBN: 043601002X) Hardcover. Book, " The author brilliantly captures the mood of the 'lucky country', as it has been called, and at the same time buries forever the traditional concepts of Australia as the land 'down under', a British satellite populated by sheep-shearers and kangaroos. [He was a prominent journalist and politiciann in the UK. 267p. maps on endpapers. As New/Fine.

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Book number: 046445

Catalogue: Australia

Keywords: 043601002x Australia

BENSON, IRVING

The Man with the Donkey : John Simpson Kirkpatrick the Good Samaritan of Gallipoli

London, Hodder & Stoughton. 1965, 1st UK Edition. Hardcover. Book, Second Impression. "This is the fascinating story of an ordinary man who did extraordinary things in a critical situation. On the day after the landing at Gallipoli he found a donkey and used it to bring wounded men from the top of Shrapnel Gully to the casualty station on the beach." 96p plates bibliography. As New/Near Fine.

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Book number: 041420

Catalogue: Australia

Keywords: Australia Gallipoli Anzac World War I Donkeys World War I

FROST, LUCY [ED]

No Place for a Nervous Lady: Voices from the Australian Busht

Melbourne, Australia, McPhee Gribble Publishers. 1984, 1st Australian Edition. (ISBN: 0869140760) Soft cover. Book, First hand accounts in letters and diaries of the conditions experienced by the women who settled the Australian Bush in the 19th century. "From Annie Baxter, writing to sustain herself through a miserable marriage to a military man and failed farmer, to Ellen Moger, whose letter to her parents told of the death of three of her four young children from starvation on the journey out, women wrote to keep in touch with their old lives and to make some kind of private sense of the new. Yet all would have agreed with Annie Baxter when, after being bled with a penkife, she wrote to a friend, "Oh! ye nervous ladies, never come to the bush!"" 284p. illus bibliography. Donor inscription. else fine. Very Good.

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Book number: 33343

Catalogue: Australia

Keywords: 0869140760 Australia Women Pioneers Explorers Women Explorers & Travellers

MCARTHUR,KATHLEEN

Bread & Dripping Days : An Australian Growing Up in the 20's

Kenthurst NSW, Auatralia, Kangaroo Press. 1982, Reprint. (ISBN: 0949924113) Laminated HC. Ill.: Illus.David Bromley. Book, Small book with reminiscences of a childhood in Australia in the 1920's with delightful period photographs and illustrations. 64p.illus Shadow of price label. else as new. Fine/No Jacket.

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Book number: 046429

Catalogue: Australia

Keywords: 0949924113 Illus. David Bromleyaustralia Biography

MORGAN, MARLO

Mutant Message Down Under

New York, HarperCollins. 1994, First Trade. (ISBN: 0060171928) . Book, Mutant Message Down Under is the fictional account of an American woman's spiritual odyssey through outback Australia. An underground bestseller in its original self-published edition, Marlo Morgan's powerful tale of challenge and endurance has a message for us all. Summoned by a remote tribe of nomadic Aborigines to accompany them on walkabout, the woman makes a four-month-long journey and learns how they thrive in natural harmony with the plants and animals that exist in the rugged lands of Australia's bush. From the first day of her adventure, Morgan is challenged by the physical requirements of the journey,she faces daily tests of her endurance, challenges that ultimately contribute to her personal transformation. By traveling with this extraordinary community, Morgan becomes a witness to their essential way of being in a world based on the ancient wisdom and philosophy of a culture that is more than 50,000 years old.Crisp unread copy.187p. New/As New.

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Keywords: 0060171928 Australia Social Studies Aborigenes

MORRIS, JAN

Sydney

New York, Random House Inc. 1992, 1st US Ed.. (ISBN: 0394550986) Hardcover. Book, Built upon a penal colony, Sydney is a city that bears the mark of its hard-knocks history. This author weaves that past into the present, finding ghosts of the city's rebellious founders in the vibrancy and puck of today's populace. The result is an intimate portrait of the city that forms the spiritual heart of Australia. 256p. frontis. index. Clean crisp and unread, but with remainder mark. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 046433

Catalogue: Australia

Keywords: 0394550986 Sydney Australia