Search Results: Biography & Autobiography from Bong Bong Books

Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2021. Edition Unstated. Softcover. Good Condition. Continually told he was born with footballing blood, Brandon Jack has spent his life uncertain of the relationship he holds with the games he's played.Now a writer and musician, he sits in his apartment and reflects upon the years spent pursuing what felt like an inevitability - the footballing life.This is a unique and darkly poetic fly-on-the-wall account of a world that is usually shown in bright lights. Filled with relentlessly driven diary entries, vivid details of life at the fringe, and memories of binge-drinking into oblivion as an escape during his playing days at the Sydney Swans, 28 is a portrayal of the sporting psyche in a way that has never been done before.But the true beauty of this book lies in the space outside football. Laid bare on these pages is a searingly honest deep dive into sport, addiction, art, sexuality, masculinity, love, family and identity. Trade… Read More

Xenophon, United States, 2011. Edition Unstated. Softcover. Good Condition. This classical text, which knowledgeable horsemen have been anxiously awaiting for years, is finally available in English. Henriquet's personal record of correspondence provides a unique window into the private problem-solving dialogue between master and student. Now a master écuyer in his own right, Henriquet embellishes this new edition with 50 photographs from his personal collection. This first and only English edition includes many more photographs of Nuno Oliveira and his teacher than earlier editions. It has also been embellished with a glossary and a descriptive table of contents for the 71 chapters.Michel Henriquet was born in 1924, and holds a degree in Law and Letters. In search of elusive traditional classic French equitation, he believed might be lost, Michel Henriquet first studied with the Baucherist, Rene Bacharach, a student of Captain Beudant. Henriquet was among the… Read More

ANU, Canberra, 2013. Edition Unstated. Softcover. Good Condition. The Australian Dictionary of Biography captures the life & times & culture of this country in an absolutely distinctive & irreplaceable way. It is the indispensable record of who we are, & of the characters who have made us what we are. I could not be prouder of ANU's continuing role as custodian of this crucial part of our national legacy." - Gareth Evans All pictures shown are of the actual product offered for sale Trade Paperback. Size: 180mm - 250mm. 492 pages. Remnants of old price label on rear cover. Covers have some shelf-wear, as well as some bumping to corners and extremities. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Australia; ISBN: 192502119X. ISBN/EAN: 9781925021196. Inventory No: 20512. . 9781925021196

Hachette, Sydney, 2021. Edition Unstated. Softcover. Good Condition. Inscribed by Author. Born in Adelaide, Sam Mac started his career as arguably the worst Black Thunder driver in SAFM's history. The solution was to get him on-air to avoid any further damage to the vehicles. Sam went on to host breakfast shows, daytime shows, the national Hot30 Countdown from Sydney and later his own breakfast radio show in Perth on Austereo's Em & Sam Mac Show. But his true passion had always been for TV. While at university, Sam created his own community show titled Sam Mac's Single Bed, filmed from his one bedroom apartment. That hard work eventually held him in good stead for his big break with Channel Ten's The Project, where he hosted field segments and eventually the entire show from the desk. Around the same time, Sam co-hosted a comedy soccer show called The B-League on Fox Sports. He juggled this role with radio stints on Triple M and Nova in Sydney. It was 2016 when Sam was offered… Read More

Allen & Unwin, New Zealand, 2021. Edition Unstated. Softcover. Good Condition. When the Taliban were at the height of their power in 2001, Abbas Nazari's parents were faced with a choice: stay and face persecution in their homeland, or seek security for their young children elsewhere.The family's desperate search for safety took them on a harrowing journey from the mountains of Afghanistan to a small fishing boat in the Indian Ocean, crammed with more than 400 other asylum seekers.When their boat started to sink, they were mercifully saved by a cargo ship, the Tampa. However, one of the largest maritime rescues in modern history quickly turned into an international stand-off, as Australia closed its doors to these asylum seekers.The Tampa had waded into the middle of Australia's national election, sparking their hardline policy of offshore detention. While many of those rescued by the Tampa were the first inmates sent to the island of Nauru, Abbas and… Read More

Friedr.Vieweg & Sohn, Germany, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. In 1979 the world celebrates the centenary of Albert Einstein's birth. This offers an occasion to review his life and his scientific work in retrospect, to survey his importance for our time, and to look forward to future years of scientific research. Undoubtedly, Einstein was one of the key-figures in the intellectual history of our century. He influenced physics and philosophy, as well as politics. The creation of general relativity is one of the greatest scientific achievements of our time, as well as the apex of Einsteins's scientific work. Its full implications for the other fields of physics have become clear only in recent years. The technological possibilities offered by space research have enabled mankind to survey the universe for the first time unhindered by the earth's atmosphere. This has led to new discoveries and has shown that even some of the far-reaching conclusions derived from… Read More

Australian Military History Publications, Australia, 2005. Reprint. Softcover. Good Condition. When Alf Parbery signed up for the AIF he could not have imagined what the next five years held for him. He joined the signals & was sent to 16 Brigade. He served at Bardia & Tobruk. He then served in Greece, Syria, Egypt. With Japan in the war, Alf returned home via a long stay in Ceylon, then north to the Kokoda Campaign & the subsequent brutal fighting on the Papuan north coast Sanananda. he ended his army life in New Guinea." Appears Unread. There is a crease to the top right hand corner of the rear cover. Trade Paperback. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 146 pages. Covers have some shelf-wear as well as some bumping to corners and extremities. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Military History; Biography & Autobiography. ISBN: 187643905X. ISBN/EAN: 9781876439057. Inventory No: 20370. . 9781876439057

Harper Collins, India, 2018. Edition Unstated. Softcover. Good Condition. Working as a stripper is anything but easy. You're often treated like a living blow-up doll and a therapist simultaneously. It's a life that many judge easily ... until you know more. Sita Kaylin, a California-based veteran in the sex industry, has lived the pitfalls of being naked in front of strangers and the absurdities that arise when you fake intimacy for a living. She left home when she was sixteen, worked hard at several jobs and eventually started college after dropping out of high school. There, a roommate turned her on to stripping, revealing a way out of the crushing financial pressures she felt and her struggles as a pre-law student with very little time or energy to study. She had no idea how wild her journey would become and what a large part of her life it would be. Sita's stories take shape through an often altered, occasionally sarcastic, sometimes illegal and frequently funny magnifying glass… Read More

Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2019. Edition Unstated. Softcover. Good Condition. 'He was courageous. He was ambitious. He was skilled. He was visionary. He could be ruthless. He was someone born of a new nation. But he was of a time now long past. And yet in the language of a later generation it could be said he had the "right stuff" . . . Michael Molkentin captures [Ross Smith] brilliantly.' - Andy Thomas, NASA Astronaut (Retired)In the smouldering aftermath of the First World War a young Australian pilot and his crew prepare to attempt the inconceivable: a flight, halfway around the globe, from England to Australia. The 18,000 kilometre odyssey will take 28 days and test these men and their twin-engine biplane to the limit. It is a trans-continental feat that will change the world and bring the air age to Australia. It will also prove to be the culminating act in the extraordinary and tragically brief life of its commander, Captain Sir Ross Smith.Raised on a… Read More

New Holland, Sydney, 2010. Edition Unstated. Softcover. Good Condition. This absorbing account takes the reader into the spotless hospital wards, strictly overseen by the ward sister; the operating theatres that are the masculine domain of the doctors; and the nurses' home where camaraderie builds among the young women. The pleasures the nurses find on their days off and the exciting offerings of a large city, including romance, are set against the backdrop of post-war Australia. Interspersed are flashbacks to Lucy Osburn and her five Florence Nightingale nurses who arrived in Sydney in 1868 to introduce the new revolutionary nursing practices of the day. Trade Paperback. Size: 180mm - 250mm. 235 pages. Remnants of old price label on rear cover. Previous owner's signature in ink. Covers have some shelf-wear as well as some bumping to corners and extremities. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Australia; Medicine & Health.… Read More

Browne and Nolan, Ireland, 1959. Edition Unstated. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/Fair. In 1871 Arthur Griffith, one of the main architects of modern Ireland, was born in a quiet Dublin street. Forty-nine years later signed the treaty with Great Britain establishing a sovereign Irish State. He lived in one of the most eventful periods of Irish history, one that witnessed the rise & fall of Parnell, the birth of the Gaelic League & of the Anglo-Irish literary movement, the launching of Sinn Fein - a new political organization founded by Griffith himself.... Old bookshop stamp inside front pastedown. A previous owner has stamped his name on the top & bottom of text block. There are small chips and tears to extremities of dust jacket. DJ. has some shelf wear as well as some marks. Size: 180mm - 250mm. 400 pages. Slight foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Dust Jacket has some shelf-wear as well as some bumping to corners and extremities. Dust… Read More

Heidelberg Publishing, Sydney, 1981. Edition Unstated. Softcover. Good Condition. Arthur Ernest Streeton, born April 8th, 1867, near Geelongin Victoria, played a major role in the art movement of the 1890s, which produced a national art, Streeton profoundly influenced the dawning of art consciousness in this country & added the subsequent international recognition of an Australian art... Cover printed on 420 gsm artboard with 220 gsm embossed artboard making up the remainder of the book. Card Covers. Size: Large Folio (bigger than A3). 52 pages. Covers have some shelf-wear as well as some bumping to corners and extremities. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Art & Design; Australia; Biography & Autobiography. ISBN: 095956912X. ISBN/EAN: 9780959569124. Inventory No: 51911. . 9780959569124

Penguin, Australia. Early Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. In November 1940, Arthur Bancroft kissed his sweetheart, Mirla, goodbye and signed up with the Royal Australian Navy to go to war. He was 19 years old. Arthur's War is the extraordinary story of his ordeal, and his survival. Arthur made a habit of cheating death - on the ill-fated HMAS Perth, which was sunk during the Battle of the Sunda Strait; as a prisoner of war on the notorious Burma-Thailand Railway, where it is said a man died for every sleeper laid; and miraculously surviving a second shipwreck that left him lost at sea, clinging to debris, for six days. While a POW he risked his life to keep a secret diary written on paper scraps with stolen pencils recording the agony and comradeship of life on the railway, which has never before been published. Against all odds Arthur made it back to Australia and to Mirla, who never lost hope for his eventual return all those years he was lost at war. His is a story for all… Read More

Ironbark Press, Randwick, 1992. Edition Unstated. Trade Paperback. Good Condition. Bill Jenkings was Australia's foremost crime reporter for almost half a century. Known by his peers as "Ace" he consistently beat his rivals to major stories and broke many of the biggest, including the Bogle/Chandler mystery, the Graeme Thorne kidnap case and the Wanda Beach murders.. There are a couple of sets of initials on the half-title page. Trade Paperback. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 296 pages. Covers have some shelf-wear as well as some bumping to corners and extremities. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Australia; True Crime. ISBN: 1875471146. ISBN/EAN: 9781875471140. Inventory No: 52111. . 9781875471140

Text, Melbourne, 1998. Edition Unstated. Softcover. Good Condition. In this compulsively readable book John Button reflects on the patterns in his life, from growing up in his father's house in Ballarat to his days as a Cabinet Minister in the Hawke and Keating Labor governments. He is a natural storyteller who writes memorably about his childhood, his school days and his emerging political allegiances. Button paints a vivid picture of life inside parliament before he became Minister for Industry and Commerce in 1983, a job he was to hold for ten years. In recounting the challenges he faced Button always understands that politics is just one part of life. In this fascinating, stylish and hilarious memoir, he writes honestly about how politics works and why it often fails to work. Front & rear pages have some foxing but the text is mostly clean. Trade Paperback. Size: 180mm - 250mm. 412 pages. Edges have some foxing. Covers have some shelf-wear as well as some bumping to corners and… Read More

MacMillan, Sydney, 2017. Edition Unstated. Softcover. Good Condition. I deal with heavy, dangerous people. People who can bring a society undone." The Contractor returns. Mike is a big unit. He builds houses and drives a ute. But he isn't your typical tradie. When a client calls he downs tools and flies into the hot zone in his other guise - that of an elite private intelligence contractor. In four high-octane adventures, The Contractor takes on a counter-surveillance gig in Singapore, a jungle ambush on a bomb-maker in South-East Asia, a cannonball run against the Taliban in Kabul and a gun deal on a floating armoury in the Indian Ocean. Will Mike make it back to his BBQ and building site? Or will fate deliver The Contractor At Hell's Gate? Trade Paperback. Size: 180mm - 250mm. 324 pages. Covers have some shelf-wear as well as some bumping to corners and extremities. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 1760552232.… Read More

Hachette, Sydney, 2014. Edition Unstated. Softcover. Good Condition. His mother may not know it but Boris Mihailovic has lived a fast, furious, often politicially incorrect life chasing the epiphanies of speed (the sensation not the drug). For Boris, motorbike riding was the rite of passage into manhood he'd been searching for. Now, nearly 40 years since he first rode a bike, the wisdom of age has provided the perspective for Boris to look back and realise some pretty wild shit went down.At the Altar of the Road Gods is about popping your motorcycle-buying cherry with an XJ650 Yamaha. It's about fines, feuds and fractures, high-sides, tank-slappers, angry police, even angrier young men, crashing, getting up, cranky girlfriends, riding faster, outlaws, and partaking in copious amounts of alcohol and drugs. It is about mateship and motorcycles. Ultimately, is is about four decades of two-wheel-related mayhem. Just don't tell Boris's mum! Be warned: may cause laughter, sleeplessness… Read More

Kangaroo Press, Sydney, 2000. Edition Unstated. Softcover. Good Condition. Signed by Author. Olga Horak was only 17 when German troops marched into Slovakia in August 1944, forcing her & her family into short-lived hiding & then into the hands of the Nazis. From transit camp to death camp, from terror to horror, Olga & her mother struggled to survive the face of hatred, brutality & day-to-day privations of the greatest severity..." All pictures shown are of the actual product offered for sale Trade Paperback. Size: 180mm - 250mm. 147 pages. Covers have some shelf-wear, as well as some bumping to corners and extremities. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Signed by Author. ISBN: 097510926X. ISBN/EAN: 9780975109267. Inventory No: 20482. . 9780975109267

Reed/Cardigan, Melbourne, 1996. Edition Unstated. Hardcover. Good Condition. Australia's literary history is rich with talented writers of all kinds. Much of the writing is linked to our unique Australian history & landscape....Among Australia's greatest & most popular performers of the past are those involved in vaudeville such as Roy 'Mo' Rene. Performers of recent times have tended to be actors, musicians or singers such as Jusy Davis & John Farnham.... ISBN is for Australia's Best Writers. Size: 180mm - 250mm. Slight foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Covers have some shelf-wear as well as some bumping to corners and extremities. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Australia; ISBN: 1863914439. ISBN/EAN: 9781863914437. Inventory No: 51075. . 9781863914437

Big Sky Publishing, Sydney, 2021. Edition Unstated. Softcover. Good Condition. Len Waters may have been born behind the gates of an Aboriginal reserve, but his big imagination and even bigger dreams took him soaring well beyond the reach of those who tried to confine him.Kamilaroi man, Len Waters, dreamed of taking to the skies. It was an unlikely dream at the time, but during WWII he beat the odds to become Australia’s first known Aboriginal fighter pilot. Rules and restrictions controlled much of Len’s early life. Born in the 1920s, Len had a basic education and life was lacking in luxury. But Len had a sharp mind. He had a boundless work ethic. Len also had big dreams and a family who supported them. Australia Remembers 3: Len Waters - Boundless and Born to Fly takes readers on Len Waters’ soaring journey from making his home-made model aeroplanes at his kitchen table, to flying RAAF fighter jets in the south west Pacific in World… Read More