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In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.The ABC Cricket Book: The First 60 Years is an engrossing collection of original writings, photos and advertisements culled from fifty-two editions of Australia's longest-running cricket publication, the ABC Cricket Book.Sir Charles Moses, expanding on the synthetic broadcasts of the 1930's created the first cricket publication, a guide to the broadcasts, in 1934. Moses' initiative was sustained by the memorable voices of Australian cricket, Johnnie Moyes and Alan McGilvray, who also became editors of the publication in the years that followed.As a guide to each up-coming season, the ABC Cricket Book has philosophically reflected the aspirations of each generation. This compilation has been enriched by contributions from the game's brilliant players: Bradman, Benaud, Grimmett, O'Reilly and the Chappells, Ian and Greg, are highlights in a team of legendary personalities who… Read More

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.If you are new to Australia, it is possible that you cannot yet tell a ringer from a ring-in, a cockatoo from a galah, a blue from a bluey. When somebody says, 'Hullo, y'old bastard,' do you take offence? If on the other hand you hear yourself referred to as 'that bastard', can you afford to be complacent? John O'Grady, whose racy mastery of Australian idiom has enlivened all his books from They're a Weird Mob on, has now compiled a phrase-book of slang expressions and their find shades of meaning. The result is uniquely funny and uniquely Australian. To read Aussie English is a naturalization ceremony in itself. 'Blokes', 'bludgers', 'blow-ins' and 'bottlers' - they are all here, with their counter-parts down the alphabet.

In very good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.AUSTRALIAN PUBS is the result of a "25,000-mile pub crawl" embarked upon by Melbourne columnist John Larkins and photographer Bruce Howard. Their journey began one warm Sunday afternoon at Silverton, near Broken Hill, and ended twelve months and many hangovers later at the new Wrest Point Casino in Hobart under the shadow of snow-capped Mount Wellington.They drank in all kinds of pubs, from the little tin shanty in the outback, where the tumbleweed bounces past the ever-open door, to the dim cocktail bar in the city where lovers whisper. They found one pub built from bricks made by ants; another so violent that the licensee lives behind a barbed wire fence and hardly dares enter the bar without his German Shepherd dog; and yet another which is so lavish that it has Sidney Nolan originals in the foyer, a mirror from Mussolini's palace, enough caviar on hand to feed a Cossack regiment,… Read More

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.The Australian War Memorial's art collection numbers many thousands of works - sketches, paintings and sculpture - which represent the output of war artists both official and unofficial during a span of more than eighty years. Begun by C.E.W. Bean after the First World War, the collection is now the most comprehensive in Australia and reveals a facet of Australian history and culture all too frequently overlooked.Volume I surveys the artists and their war art from 1885 up to and including the Great War. Some of the most famous names in Australian painting are represented here in an entirely different light, including Tom Roberts, Arthur Streeton and other 'Heidelberg School' painters, as well as artists best known for their imposing First World War battle pictures, such as George Lambert and H. Septimus Power. In addition to major artists and art works depicting and recording primarily the… Read More

In very good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Its Great Mate - Photographs of Australia.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.'They start out confident enough. They lose their puff, fall into ravines, double back, drop their compasses, go bush mad, and that has been the way since the colony was framed, when a line was drawn, and everyone stayed inside it. In the main, they still do. It is such a vast ocean of land they cannot imagine it, and when they do try, do not get far.'In the early 1800s, out of the prison society of governors, redcoats, gaolers, convicts and the few free settlers of Botany Bay, none ventured much farther inland than a few dozen miles from Sydney. Those who tried came back saying it could not be done, or did not come back at all.Or so it was believed until the brazen escape of Desmond Kale after the final vengeance of his rival, the wildly eccentric 'flogging parson' magistrate Matthew Stanton: 'Kale marched a vicious mile, changed shape over a ridgeline and was gone. His face… Read More

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Alas, confesses Peter Luck, he's broken that rule many times. One of the country's top producers and presenters, Luck also writes the wise and witty '5th Column', which has graced the pages of the Sydney Morning Herald for more than five years.The Best of Luck comprises Luck's most entertaining television articles from the '5th Column'. Luck gives a colourful and humorous view of the people and programmes that make up the Aussie brand of TV.

In good condition - has tape on front cover - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Uproarious tales of Australia's favourite fictional family, brilliantly illustrated in colour and black and white by Louis Silvestro. Dad, Dave, Sarah, Joe, Mother and all the rest of the irrepressible Rudd family stumble hilariously from one escapade to another as they struggle to make a living from the land against all opposition - including kangaroo, droughts, recalcitrant farm animals, and each other! A superb addition to the family library.

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Fatty - The strife and times of Paul Vautin is the most explosive book about rugby league since King Wally. It is also the funniest; a rollicking saga which tracks the many highs (and lows) which punctuated a career of football's famous redhead.In characteristic fashion Vautin goes unflinchingly straight up the middle, trampling on toes, and scattering football's sacred cows in all directions. The book is full of revelations - of drugs in football, the inside story of his painful exit from Manly, the dramas at Jack Gibson's Easts, and much more. It provides an enthralling and riotous overview of rugby league's most colourful decade.

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Based on Marcus Clarke's classic novel, originally published in 1870 as His Natural Life, the story tells of convict Rufus Dawes, who has been wrongfully accused of a crime and sent to the penal colony of Van Diemen's Land for the term of his natural life.

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.The last five years have been some of the most politically turbulent in Australian history.Patrick Cook, cartoonist for the Australian Financial Review and the National Times, has spent the last five years following the daily fortunes and misfortunes of the Fraser Government and the men who run it.FRASER COUNTRY is, however, more than just a collection of the best of Patrick Cook. With its accompanying text, it is one man's vision of Australia in a period which may well prove to be the most critical in our history.

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.First published in 1962, this great book has sold continuously ever since. It has become an Australian classic. The subject of the book introduces it in his own words:My name is Waipuldanya, or Wadjiri-Wadjiri. (If they twist your tongue too much you can call me Philip Roberts. That is my white-feller name.)I'm a full-blood Aboriginal of the Alawa tribe at Roper River in the Northern Territory.My body has been through the fires of tribal initiation. I have been subjected to many taboos. As a child I was 'sung' to death by a malevolent medicine man, who wished to destroy me in order to punish my clan. I was saved by another.I have worshipped Kunapipi the Earth Mother in our pagan ceremonies. I believe in the Rainbow Serpent. I have also worshipped and believe in the Lord God and have been confused by a conflict of religions.In my youth I was taught to track and hunt wild animals, to be… Read More

In very good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.The aim of this anthology is to entertain and give pleasure to an audience as wide as the field from which the stories have been chosen. The earliest was published in 1894, the latest in 1986. The stories are presented chronologically so that the reader may appreciate the development of the story-teller's art as the preoccupations and attitudes of Australians have changed with their history.From the haunting bush tragedy of Barbara Baynton's 'The Chosen Vessel' to Helen Garner's ironic comment on feminism in 'The Life of Art'; from Henry Lawson's comic story of desperate goldseekers thwarted by a formidable woman in 'The Golden Graveyard' to Angelo Loukakis's sad story of a young Greek bound by duty to an implacably self-centred father in 'Being Here Now': The variety of mood and theme in this collection is as fascinating as the variety of talent and technique.There is an emotional… Read More

In good condition - has markings from use - has no dust jacket - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.But for the promptings of a mate on the opal fields of Lightning Ridge, Australia's greatest story teller might well have remained one of the anonymous host of roving adventurers who have pioneered the little known corners of this continent. Urged by a fellow opal-seeker, he began to write - and wrote his way to fame.In Lightning Ridge Ion Idriess tells of his beginnings of his childhood in Lismore and Tamworth and Broken Hill, of his apprenticeship in bushcraft, and of the growing love for the Australian outback which illumines all his work. He tells of the jobs he had - as rouseabout, horse breaker, horse tailer, shearer - and of how his wanderings brought him to the opal mines at Lightning Ridge. The romance of opals, with their fiery beauty, captured the author's imagination - and has held it ever since. He became one of the band of opal-seekers who live in these… Read More

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Childrens book of Ned Kelly's life.

In good condition - has markings from use - dust jacket has rolling to edges and a tear on front cover in upper left corner - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.From 1824 when Sir Thomas Brisbane, Governor of NSW, sent a detachment of soldiers and convicts to found a new settlement on the Brisbane River to 1900, when Queen Victoria proclaimed the Commonwealth of Australia, Queensland has had an exciting and chequered history.Australia has one of the most varied histories of modern times, yet never before have the facts been written down for Australian children. Now George Finkel has brought this history to life on a state by state basis for anyone interested in Australian history, but more specifically for children in the 9-14 age group.Queensland: 1824-1900 has an introductory section on the prehistory and fauna of Australia; chapters on exploration and settlement, the Great Barrier Reef, blackbirders, the Aborigines, going to school, industry and sport.

Large book in good condition - markings and fading on front and back covers - spine faded - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout."RAAF Log", Christmas book for 1943, is in direct descent from "These Eagles", the first Christmas book of the R.A.A.F. to which it is a full brother. First cousins are "H.M.A.S. Mk II", the story of the Royal Australian Navy at war, and "Khaki and Green", which relates the story of the Australian Army's land fronts."RAAF Log" is unlike "These Eagles" in that it is a "combined operation". Within its covers will be found, not only the story of the air battle here and abroad, but also a number of literary and other contributions made by various blokes in the Service who have found the time and talent to write or draw. They have been our top cover.Like its Predecessor, "RAAF Log" does not pretend to be a complete tale of the deeds of the R.A.A.F. in 1943. There were many lacunae (blind spots to you) in our arc of fire.… Read More

In very good condition - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.In 1915, on a rugged beach in south-western Turkey, young soldiers fighting for their countries forged what we now know as the Anzac spirit. The mateship, loyalty and courage they displayed in the trenches formed the bedrock of the Australian and New Zealand national characters.In The Spirit of Gallipoli, bestselling author Patrick Lindsay examines this momentous conflict, bringing to life the heroes and the glory. In his simple yet powerful retelling, Lindsay shows that our understanding of the Anzac spirit can only be complete once we understand the spirit of Gallipoli.

In good condition - has markings from use - slight yellowing to some pages - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Dorothea Mackellar's classic poem with paintings by Bill Beavan.Almost three-quarters of a century lie between the words of the colonial girl, Dorothea Mackellar, and the paintings of present-day Bill Beavan, yet both are fired by the same love of a harsh and beautiful land.The young Dorothea, gently nurtured in a wealthy Sydney home, cherished a dreamily romantic vision of Australia. Artist Bill Beavan, once described as "a bushman who lives in the city", has attributes of skill and spirit which are ideally suited to the realistic interpretation of Dorothea's dreams. He travels extensively in the outback in search of material for his strongly vibrant canvases and he has always been fascinated by the changing moods and violent physical contrasts of the unique Australian landscape.

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.This heady mix of poignant, funny and revealing stories reflects the bitter-sweet sporting career of author Neil Marks. At 21, Marks was a sensation in the NSW Sheffield Shield team, scoring centuries in his first two games. At 22 his career was over, cut cruelly short by a serious heart problem. Totally unaffected by that disappointment was Marks' love of sport - all sport - inherited from his renowned father, Alec Marks.In Tales from the Locker Room Neil Marks has written arguably the finest collection of sporting stories to be published in Australia. He ranges through cricket, rugby league, golf, racing and rugby in telling his ageless yarns. Some are hilarious, some deeply moving; all offer the reader captivating insights into the world of sport. Champions walk the author's stage - Bradman, Churchill, Barassi, Neil Harvey, Mike Whitney, Mark Ella and countless more. No one has ever… Read More