Search Results: RURAL & FARMING from Bookhome Sydney

Brisbane: A. H. Tucker, Government Printer, 1950. Paperback small octavo, very good condition, stapled pamphlet (staples little rusted), decorative marbled card cover, tables, graphs, black & white text-photos, corner tips covers creased, tiny piece missing base spine, pages lightly toned, bottom corner some pages little creased, minor edgewear, small biro mark title page. 92 pp. A great booklet for anyone interested in the history of sugar production in Australia. (No date but 1950, Trove.).

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007. 1st p/b ed.. Paperback octavo, very good plus condition, figures, tables, minimal edgewear. 273 pp. An American environmental lecturer and friar describes agroecology, a new innovative scientific response to agriculture's growing environmental crises. He offers American case studies of ways in which social networks of growers, scientists, agricultural organizations, and public agencies have developed innovative, ecologically based techniques to reduce reliance on agrochemicals. SALE PRICE.

Sydney: Dymock's Book Arcade, 1982. Each booklet: Paperback trade, very good plus condition, stapled pamphlet, black & white drawings, minor edgewear. Each booklet: 32 pp. A scarce complete set of 10 booklets by Richard Graves in a series on bushcraft. 1: Ropes and cords. 2: Huts & thatching. 3: Campcraft. 4: Food and water. 5: Fire making. 6: Knots and lashings. 7: Tracks and lures. 8: Snares and traps. 9: Travel and gear. 10: Time and direction. By former commanding officer, Australian Jungle Survival & Rescue Detachment. (No date, but 1982, written in pencil by previous owner. Originally published, 1952, and based on his wartime service in Australia and New Guinea teaching junglecraft to Australian and American forces. They are distilled, concentrated old-time bushcraft knowledge, published in individual booklets for convenient carrying in your pocket.).

London: Hamlyn / Practical Poultry Magazine, 2006. Reprint ed.. Paperback wide octavo (with flaps), very good condition, colour text-photos, corners covers & few pages little creased, edges lightly rubbed, tiny bump top spine, crease rear cover, minor edgewear. 208 pp. This book has information on over 50 of the most popular breeds. There are chapters on feeding, dealing with common ailments to breeding, and taking care of your chickens.

Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press (FACP), 1993. 1st ed.. Hardback small, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), full-page colour paintings (including frontispiece), small dent bottom edge rear cover, minor edgewear. 95 pp. Australian novelist Elizabeth Jolley provides a humorous and moving mixture of personal observation and poetry, based upon her own experiences of life on the land. She and her husband became 'weekend farmers' when they purchased a five-acre rural property in the hills outside Perth. Art work by Evelyn Kotai. First state jacket design (full-page illustration).

Sydney: Kangaroo Press, 1998. Paperback wide octavo, very good condition, drawings, colour photos, few page corner tips creased (bookmarks), minor edgewear & marking. 46 pp. A quirky little fun but practical book about all aspects of keeping ducks for pleasure, and perhaps a little profit. How to feed, house and breed ducks, how to keep them clean, and how they can coexist with hens and geese. Her infectious love for these waddling creatures is readily apparent.

Melbourne: Affirm Press, 2016. Australian ed.. Paperback small trade, very good condition, colour photos, top spine lightly bumped, top corner front cover slightly creased, minor edgewear. 212 pp. This is a funny, inspiring story about a very special pig named Esther. Esther came to live with the Canadian author and his partner. Esther started being a 'micro' piglet but soon grew into a huge 270 kilogram loveable adult pig who completely changed their lives. In time, they bought a farm and named it the Happily Ever Esther Farm Sanctuary, where they could care for Esther and other animals in need. They have become two of the world's most successful and beloved animal rights activists - alongside Esther, a social media star with many fans around the world.

Adelaide: Crawford House, 1998. Reprint ed.. Paperback trade, very good condition, crease fore-edge front cover, light crease cover near spine, pages lightly toned, minor edgewear. 200 pp. Bob Lunney provides a well-told tale of a true-life adventure full of drama, conflict, danger, humour and pathos. He begins his story in 1956, when he was 17 years old, and joined a droving team on one of the last epic long-distance cattle drives in Australia, when road-trains were beginning to make such treks obsolete. The story is drawn from notes scribbled in an old exercise book during the trip.

Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2011. 1st ed.. Paperback octavo, very good condition, map, corner tips little scuffed, scuff marks spine edges, minor edgewear corners. 201 pp. This is the story of one family in rural El Salvador. The conflict experienced in the 1980s, in guerrilla camps, refugee camps and war zones, is told through experiences of the family. The authors have written a fascinating story which is helpful in understanding the lives of the rural families in Central America The family and friends of Louis Campos, appear in the book with a pseudonym.

Melbourne, Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2006. Paperback octavo, very good condition, figures, tables, minor edgewear. 158 pp. Jennifer Thomson examines the issues and concerns surrounding the development of genetically modified (GM) crops and their impacts on the environment.

Sydney: Historic Houses Trust of NSW / Royal Agricultural Society of NSW, 1996. Paperback wide octavo (with flaps), very good condition, colour & black & white text-photos. 80 pp. Anne Cooke describes The Royal Easter Show in Sydney that has attracted millions of visitors since its inception in 1823, and held at Sydney Showgrounds Moore Park (until the recent move to Homebush). Covers posters & advertising, historical development, entertainment in the arena, the sideshows, the country comes to town, the woodchop, the district exhibits, arts and crafts exhibitions, industrial & commercial exhibitions, and the past and the future.

Sydney: ABC Books / Australian Broadcasting Commission, 1983. Reprint ed.. Paperback wide trade, very good condition, fore-edge front cover & few pages little creased, minor edgewear. 103 pp. This book, edited by Allan Humphries, is based on the ABC Radio series. There are a lot of good ideas for anyone interested in hobby farming.

London: Chapman & Hall, 1995. 1st ed.. Hardback octavo, no jacket as issued, very good condition, pictorial cover, figures, tables, base spine end little creased. 356 pp. David Dent and colleagues provide a practical guide to the principles and practice of developing an integrated pest management (IPM) program. The term 'pest' in this book is used in its broadest sense and includes insects, pathogens, weeds, nematodes, etc. This will be a useful book for agricultural and plant scientists, entomologists, acarologists and nematologists and all those studying crop protection. Outlines the basic principles that underlie pest control (crop husbandry, socioeconomics, population ecology and population genetics), and reviews the control measures available. Also covers the techniques and approaches used in defining a pest problem, program planning and management, systems analysis, experimental paradigms and implementation of IPM systems. Final chapters give examples of IPM in different cropping… Read More

Perth: William Colin Kennedy Pearse, 1995. 1st ed.. Paperback thick trade, very good condition, black & white text-photos, map, few light creases covers & fore-edge, faint foxing edges, minor edgewear. 271 pp. This biography presents a graphic, entertaining, and enlightening account of the many enduring facets and challenges encountered throughout the life of Colin Pearse, this unique Australian agriculturalist from Western Australia.

Blue Ash, OH: David & Charles, 2012. Reprint ed.. Paperback small square quarto, very good condition, colour photos (few full-page), tiny scuff spine ends, small crush top edge rear cover, minor edgewear corners & spine ends. 174 pp. This book discusses the care of chickens. Covers egg-laying to ease of keeping for over 70 different breeds, setting up and maintaining a healthy hen house, keeping the chickens warm - and dry and safe from predators. There is practical advice on hygiene, disease and healthcare. Learn about broody birds and egg incubation, and rear a new generation of chicks to brighten any garden.

North Adams, MA: Storey Publishing, 2003. Reprint ed.. Paperback wide octavo, very good condition, black & white text-photos & drawings, colour photos, minor edgewear. 150 pp. The author gives the detailed information that will assist you to keep chickens. There are simple instructions on feeding and caring for chickens, the breeds that are happy in small spaces, lists of the equipment that is needed, coop design, how to collect eggs, and how to keep chickens in the city and keep within the council guidelines, and most important how to keep chickens healthy and happy.

New York: St Martin's Press, 2015. 1st p/b ed.. Paperback octavo, very good condition, colour photos centre spread, bottom corner rear cover creased, minor edgewear. 300 pp. The author has spent 20 years as a horse trainer, and thought that he had met every dangerous horse there is, until he met Samson who hated everyone and everything, and would let everyone know it. After years of abuse at the hands of sadistic owners he had learned that all humans mean pain and fear. Over one year, Mitch and Samson learnt respect for each other, and Mitch experienced firsthand the true mettle and greatness of the wild American mustang (from the Nevada wilds). This is a story of hope, redemption, commitment, friendship, and love, told with great compassion.

Dunalley, TAS: Bangor Publications, 2010. Paperback wide octavo (with flaps), very good condition, black & white & sepia (brown-tinted) & colour text-photos. 144 pp. Tom Dunbabin relates the story of two brothers establishing a farm on remote Maria Island, a former penal settlement, off Tasmania's east coast. The author has long been fascinated by his ancestors and their island home. A local history based mostly on surviving letters that reveal their triumphs and tragedies, loves and losses, in early colonial Tasmania.

Ballarat, VIC: R. T. R. Russell, 2007. 1st ed.. Paperback wide trade, as new condition, black & white text-photos. 179 pp. Rob's third book again takes us on his classing run, and relates the humour of the Australian sheepyards, woolsheds, country pubs and homesteads.

Bowral, NSW: Self-Published: Jane Pollard, 2004. Paperback small quarto, very good condition, black & white photos, top corner front cover & first few pages little creased, autograph (author's written name title page). 159 pp. Jane Pollard relates the story of a family who milled flax from Southland to the Waikato in New Zealand. The author is the great-granddaughter of Johann Herrmann Seifert. Using personal letters, diaries, and business correspondence, plus wages books and cutter's tallies from several of his mills, this book traces the flax industry, and the men who worked it, through the turbulent years of two Depressions and two World Wars, and the mingled fortunes of those times.