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(The) Chant of Jimmy
Blacksmith - CD
An unabridged production. Exploited by his white employers and betrayed by his white wife, Jimmy must find a way to express his rage. 7 hours on 6 discs |
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Country - 3CD
Set
Tim Flannery. Spanning several decades of Flannery's life and is a love letter to Australia. Tim Flannery is a director of the SA museum, Chair of the SA science council, and involved with palaeontology, mammalogy and conservation causes over the years. |
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Days
of the Drover
New Double CD. Sixty years ago Walkabout - Australia’s first Geographical Magazine - published a series of stories about cattle droving in the Australian outback. These quickly became classics. Four feature length stories have been
retold, this time as a double CD audio magazine titled, “Days of the
Drover”. Stories by great Australian authors Alan Marshall, George
Farwell and Arthur Upfield have been chosen. They take listeners
from Rocklands Station on the Diamantina River along the Birdsville Track
to the rail head at Marree. These are accurate historical records
that remind us that Australia’s drovers were the world’s best. “Andy and Jack are the lads of the
bush, fearing nothing on legs and good mouth-organists.” Included as a bonus, is a classic and
intriguing account of early operations by the Royal Flying Doctor Service.
This was written in 1936 by Dr George Simpson medical advisor to the Rev
John Flynn. As today’s travellers speed through
this country in air-conditioned comfort these stories become stark
reminders of the isolation and hardships faced by the bands of tough,
rugged men who slowly pushed mobs of cattle across the country long before
the era of the road train and the 4WD. “There is
no finer sight than a mob of horses drinking at a river with a sunset sky
behind them. And these horses were aristocrats; there was breeding in
every line of them.” “Days of the Drover” is read by Australian actor Peter Curtin and features more than two hours of listening enjoyment. These stories were first published in the 1930s and 40s in the pages of Walkabout bringing first hand accounts of remote outback life to urban readers. |
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Diamonds & Dust
Sheryl McCorry grew up in Arnhem Land
carrying crocodiles to school for show and tell. When she was 18,
Broome beckoned, and it was there that - only hours after being
railroaded into marriage by a fast-talking Yank - she locked eyes
with Bob McCorry, a drover and buffalo shooter. When her marriage
ended after only a few months, they began a romance that would last
a lifetime and take them to the Kimberley's harshest frontiers.
As the only woman in a team of stockmen, Sheryl soon learned how to run rogue bulls and to outsmart the neighbours in the toughest game of all - mustering cattle. The playing field was a million acres of unfenced, unmarked boundaries. But Sheryl soon saw that to survive in the outback a woman needed goals. Hers was to become the first woman in the Kimberley to run two million-acre cattle stations. But it was to come at an unimaginable cost. Inspiring and unforgettable, Diamonds & Dust is a classic story of a woman finding her destiny in the furthest reaches of the outback. |
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Great Pioneer Women of the
Outback - 8 CD's
Profiles 10 female pioneers of the outback betweem 1880 and the 1st World War. Includes the likes of Jeannie Gunn, Emma Withneill and Evelyn Maunsell. Read by Kate Hood. |
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Hellfire - CD
Read by Peter Byrne. The story of Australia, Japan and the prisoners of war. For months during 1943 there was no night in Hellfire Pass. Flares, carbide lamps and bamboo flares meant that 22000 Australian prisoners along with many others cut a passage through the rock walls to make the infamous Burma railway. 18 Hours on 15 CD's |
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Heroic Australian Women
in War - CD
Read by Beverley Dunn In the book by Susanna de Vries she profiles the love, dedication and selflessness of eleven outstanding Australian women over the course of two world wars. 12 Hours on 10 CD's |
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