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Jackaroo
Michael
Thornton In
1967, fresh from boarding school humiliations, and having lost his father
to alcoholism, gangly teen Michael Thornton was packed off to a tough
sheep and cattle station to work as a jackaroo. He was to learn the wool
trade from the lamb up, under a boss legendary for working his farmhands
in an almost military regimen. Tasked
with the dirty, disgusting and downright dangerous jobs, jackaroos are the
dogsbodies of our farms. But at Habbies Howe, in central Victoria,
somewhere between castrating lambs with his teeth and hauling backbreaking
sacks of fertiliser for no obvious purpose, Michael discovered inner
strength, and the friendship and male role models he'd craved. He
also earned respect – enough to later walk into a job with the nation's
most famous farmer, the Defence Minister and future PM Malcolm Fraser. In
Jackaroo, Thornton recalls his years learning the ropes in an era when
farm work was still done on horseback. Engaging, candid and often funny,
his memoir reveals the hard working lives of the unsung all-rounders of
the country. First published 2011 |
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Kidman the Forgotten King
Jill Bowen. As a barely literate youth of fifteen, Sidney Kidman ran away from home and worked as an odd-job boy in a grog shanty in outback Australia. He went on to become the greatest pastoral landholder in modern history, acquiring a legendary reputation both at home and abroad as the Cattle King. As an biographer Jill bowen shows, Kidman was much more than a grazier. In addition to his many successful business ventures and his contributions to the war effort, he has driven by a grand plan for the remote, arid areas of Australia. This kept locked in a battle with the land – and against drought. 520pp. First published in 1987, this edition 2007
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Kings in Grass Castles
Mary Durack The best saga of pastoral Australia ever published... hard to describe without superlatives... in a hundred years the book will still be a classic.' '... far better than any novel; an
incomparable record of a greart family and of a series of great actions.'
The Bulletin First published 1959, this edition 2000 |
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King
of The Outback
Tales from an off-road
advernturer
Bill
King is the pioneer who put the Australian outback on the map for both
local and international tourists. Through an enterprise founded on hope
and grit-now operating as AAT Kings-he opened up a completely new branch
of Australian tourism. Thousands of Australians have experienced the
adventure of a lifetime in Bill's capable hands, often walking in the
footsteps of explorers such as Burke and Wills, Leichhardt, Sturt and
Stuart.Eccentric drivers, mad passengers and sticky situations abound
against the backdrop of the glorious Australian outback. Bill and his tour
groups sometimes got lost, bogged or stranded-sometimes even scared out of
their wits-but there was always a fierce determination to bring the show
back home. Bill never lost a passenger or brought one to harm, though by
heck they did sometimes try his monumental patience. First published 2011 Temporarily unavailable |
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Lady Bushranger
Pat Studdy-Clift. The full story of Elizabeth Jessie Hickman’s circus career, cattle duffing, escape from the police and final taming. 226pp. First published 1996 |
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Left For Dead: How I Survived 71 Days Lost in a Desert Hell Ricky Megee.
In April 2006 the news broke of an amazing feat of survival by a white man
in one of the most inhospitable areas of Australia. Ricky Megee was found
sheltering by a dam on a remote cattle property in the Northern Territory. First published 2008,
this edition 2010 |
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Life of Matthew Flinders
Miriam Estensen. A story of persistence, risk taking, driving ambition and frustration. A richly detailed account of tragedy and short lived triumph. First published 2002, this edition 2003 |
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Life Without Limits
Life Without Limits is the story of gutsy
Nick Vujicic, an amazing 28-year-old Aussie born without arms or legs who
is now an internationally successful inspirational speaker. Packed full of
wisdom, testimonials of his faith and laugh-out-loud humour, Nick tells of
life in his 'Chesty Bond' body, his visit to Africa at the age of 20 where
he gave away $20,000 of his life savings to the poor, and raised another
$20,000 for them on the side, and how he learned to surf, skateboard, dive
and more. First published 2010, this edition 2011 |
25.00 | Add to Cart |
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