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Kundu: Morris L. West
$30.00Set in the Highland valleys of New Guinea, a white man meddles with the age-old mysteries of the native tribes. There is Kumo, the sorcerer, jealous of the white man's power; Kurt Sonderfield, owner of a coffee plantation; Gerda, his wife - and the men who love her - and N'Daria, the sensual native girl who shares the worlds of Kumo and Sonderfield. -
Sir Marmaduke Vane-Temperly, a man of the world who is weary of the world, goes forth to seek his vanished youth. He's cynical, pompous and ever the gentleman as befits his position. Of the many adventures that befall him, a mysterious murder is but one. He also meets Eve-Anne, a gentle, innocent 19 year old girl who on a quest for adventure and who knows him as 'John Hobbes', a gambler who cannot understand Eve-Anne's depth of generosity and feeling for those worse off than herself and her endless willingness to help them. Set in the Regency, when bucks and dandies thought it quite the adventure to meet the bruisers, vagabonds and footpads that abounded in an England that had a sharp divide between the rich and poor, the privileged and the commoners. -
Frederic Slaney Poole (1845-1936), son of Judge Thomas Slaney Poole, stepped off the St. Vincent at Port Adelaide on November 30, 1867 to work at the Poonindie Native Institution, was priested in 1869, and became incumbent of Robe, a vast parish. Before becoming headmaster Christ Church Grammar School, Mount Gambier, he travelled to London and married Rebecca Scott. In 1874 be became incumbent of St John's, Halifax Street, Adelaide. Tall, thin, bearded and a keen sportsman, Poole was a popular preacher, fearless in denouncing commercial and sexual immorality, and with 'the reputation of being a man without cant … who is not above taking an occasional glass of whisky, and who would not express unbounded indignation if asked to participate in a game of billiards or cards'. He was a lecturer in the classics; he conducted a school for choirboys; was chaplain to the Adelaide hospital, gaol and destitute asylum; and was one of South Australia's first clerical Freemasons, helping to establish the Grand Lodge of South Australia in Adelaide in 1884. His descendant Cynthia has told his incredible story of his life, from horseback priest to Canon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Slaney_Poole -
Australia is one of the richest countries, growing far more food that can be eaten, as well as a major source for minerals. To whom should Australia sell its food, minerals and energy? On what terms? How secure are Australia's relations with its major trading partners? How much does Australia's growth depend on immigration. These are just some of the themes covered in this book. -
Those were eventful years for King George V and the world at large; the Great War that should have ended all wars was fought and won by the Allies; the motorcar took over the streets; the stock market rose and fell with a resounding crash; Viscountess Astor became the first woman MP in England; hemlines rose above the knee and plane travel became passè. A fabulous pictorial history of 25 years that really did change the world. -
Described as romance shorts - with definite twists and turns in every tale - this volume contains: The Odds/Without Prejudice: A young woman, without realising it, meets a man on the run from the law. Sparks fly but he must keep running. Time passes...she gets engaged to a law man. What happens when the woman and the convict meet again? Her Own Free : An impetuous girl agrees to marry a Boer millionaire for his money. After an accident which keeps the couple separated for a year, she's not so sure that she wants to be married...The Consolation Prize: A young woman, in love with a local farmer, agrees to marry an eccentric lord to save her family from poverty. But rather than two lives being ruined by sacrifice, her sister proposes a shocking solution. Her Freedom: A free-spirited girl calls off her engagement - not in the usual way, but by an announcement in the Society columns. her soon-to-be former fiance responds by posting the wedding date in the same column. She then meets a wild, bushy bearded Canadian man and rather than allow her mischievous cousin Dick to polish off the Canadian's rough edges, she thinks he will 'do' just as he is. Is this true love? Or infatuation? Death's Property: A wealthy man, disillusioned man returns to the seaside village of his birth, disgusted at the world and himself for having served the 'God of Gold' for 20 years in America. Irritated by a shrill American accent, he finds the voice belongs to a real beauty. But according to her cousin, she is 'untouchable...' The Sacrifice: When a young Society girl's admirer is falsely accused of forgery, she will do anything to clear his name...she will even submit to blackmail... -
Compiled for Methuen in the early 1970s by the young Monty Python team at the height of their surreal powers and was published on the heels of the improbable success of the Monty Python's Flying Circus television series. A surreal delight, the Papperbok was a testing ground for ideas equally as fresh and funny as the Flying Circus material. It is full of colorful and rude illustrations by Terry Gilliam, oddball instruction sheets and booklets, schoolboy stories of adventure and mischief, misleading horoscopes, informative and thrilling features-such as Hamster: A Warning; The Python Book of Etiquette and The London Casebook of Detective Ren Descartes, zany competitions, fake editorials, spurious film reviews and some of the oddest miscellany ever pressed between the pages of a book. A must for any sincere Python fan who has ever done a Silly Walk or has practised the Art Of Not Being Seen. -
Here is a story of the Highlands and the red deer that live there as seen through the eyes of Roddie and Flora, the children of Murdo MacKenzie, a stalker. There is not only a tale, but information on how the red deer live and their beautiful country. Sir Frank Fraser Darling (23 June 1903 – 22 October 1979) was an English ecologist, ornithologist, farmer, conservationist and author, who is strongly associated with the highlands and islands of Scotland. -
Volume III of the Industrial and Social History series. The history of our ancestors in the age of the chase - the time of hunting that necessitated invention of new weapons, the study of herd migration, the re-designing of tool and much more, told in an easy fictional fashion with plenty of rotogravure illustrations. First published in 1911, this is the 1938 edition and this book is still in print today. -
What a world of dreams is this Pompeii, where each one seeks to be what he is not... Pompeii, pleasure ground of the wealthy, decadent and rife with corruption. A cast of characters to rival any soap opera: Clodius, poor yet noble, in love with Julia, the daughter of nouveau riche merchant Diomed, who is trying to forget that his grandfather was ever a slave; Glaucus, the young and wealthy Greek playboy who falls in love with Ione, a wealthy orphan under the wardship of Arbaces, High Priest of Isis, who will stop at nothing to secure Ione and her fortune for the temple; Nydia, the blind slave girl who sells her flowers and yearns for Glaucus; Lydon, the gladiator, the darling of Pompeii, fighting to win enough money to buy the freedom of Medon, his father; there is Apaecides, Ione's brother who learns of Christ from Olinthus, the sail maker...and still more in the cast that make up the last days of the city that was believed to be the wickedest place on earth. -
On of the liveliest characters in Australian history is Sir Henry Browne Hayes, the Irish knight who was transported for abducting a Quaker heiress and who surrounded his house with Irish earth to keep the snakes away. This is the tale of his adventures and tales of some of his friends not known to history - especially Gos Blackthorn, a young man who did not know his real name or parentage, and Mary McGregor, the Quaker girl he loved. Their fortunes are caught up in the fortunes of the new colony, from the rising of the Irish convicts at Castle Hill to the Rum Rebellion. Gos becomes a fugitive, escaping to new country with the aborigines, while Sir Henry alternates between dispensing lavish hospitality at Vaucluse House and paying for his indiscretions in the chain-gangs or coal-mines. There is also Patsy O'Neill, Sir Henry's groom who follows Sir Henry to Australia and becomes a farmer on the Hawkesbury. A fabulous story, woven into the fabric of Australia's rough-and-tumble early history. Trivia - Frank O'Grady is the brother of author John O'Grady, a.k.a. Nino Culotta. -
Humankind has developed three ways of recording its existence: History, folklore and - yarn. History is what really happened; folklore is what people believe happened; and yarns don't care what really happened - they're the way of keeping it all interesting! Mike Hayes - winner of the World Yarn-Spinning Championships, 1991 - embarked on a personal crusade to collect and record as many contemporary Australian yarns as possible. And no-one can tell a yarn like an Aussie. Not for the politically correct or easily offended!
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Black Ivory: Norman Collins
$20.00Comparable to Treasure Island or Mutiny on the Bounty, here is a story of high adventure, mutiny and high-jacking told in the first person by a 13 year-old boy who runs away from home to seek a fortune for his family. Ralph Raikes is the son of a farmer who has been evicted from his holding by an unjust landlord. He goes to Liverpool where a gang of scoundrels force him to sign on as a cabin boy under the notorious Captain Swing. He recounts his terrifying, strange experiences on board the Nero, which he discovers to be a slave ship bound for another load of 'black ivory' from Africa. There are many adventures, lessons and triumphs before Ralph goes home. With black and white illustrations. -
'...Containing the best modern methods for treatment of women's and children's diseases with a comprehensive index of symptoms.' Some listings of this book designate it as being first published in 1912 ( the date of the Australian Copyr4ight Act) but it was in fact first published in 1917 (Reference: https://encyclopedia.adventist.org/article?id=183E). Earlier editions are credited to Eulalia and Franklin Richards, her husband (also a doctor). Later revised and expanded editions are credited to Eulalia Richards only. A comprehensive manual for home health, it covers courtship and marriage; what is necessary for a successful marriage; sex; nutrition for mothers-to-be and children; chest, heart and blood diseases; urinary and genital diseases; nervous disorders and skin diseases; ear, nose, throat and eye problems; infectious diseases; tuberculosis; the relationship between health and women's dress fashions; bladder and bowel issues; puberty, menstruation and menopause; venereal diseases; health in middle life and home/first aid treatments. There's a great deal here that is commonsense, some treatments that definitely would NOT be used today and much to interest the medical student/historian. Illustrated. -
When Eva Smiled: R.T. Foster
$30.00Humorous Australian poetry, often satirising news events of the day: Down To Earth lampoons Professor Auguste Piccard's prediction of future space journeys to distant solar systems lasting thousands of years and from which it would be possible to return without aging. All manner of everyday life events are in the sights of Foster's gun, from the culinary arts to modern sculpture, with a few sly digs at political notables from the Cold War Era. With amusing black and white illustrations by Emeric.
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Subtitle: Being the Story of British Heroism in Voyaging and Sea-fight from Alfred's Time to the Battle of Trafalgar. First published in 1905, this anthology was the first one-volume survey of Britain's historic sea voyages and battles. With selections from John Dryden, Samuel Pepys, Sir Walter Raleigh, King Alfred as well as contemporary accounts from documents, letters and eyewitnesses. This history covers the period from 55 B.C. to 1805 A.D. With one colour plate, several glossy black and white plates and sketches. -
In the reign of James II, rejected love turns the exquisite, soulful Anthony Armadale into the grim, misogynistic outlaw Captain Midnight, the terror of the wealthy autocrats who consider themselves above the law. Encouraging him in his daring interventions between tyranny and and its victims, the little parson Aeneas Wade never guesses his identity. But the lovely Lady Clarissa Fane sees through the bitterness to the true man. This was Farnol's last book, finished in rough form before his death and edited for publication by his widow, Mrs. Phyllis Farnol.
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This is no ordinary 'Guide to Italy' - this is a collection of charming legends, tales and anecdotes created by the author and inspired by the regions of Italy. Naples - The Castle That Came Out Of An Egg; Sorrento, Almalfi, Pompeii - The Dog Of Pompeii; Ravello, Salerno, Paestum - The Temple Boy; The Hill Towns - Orvieto, Prugia, Assissi - The Donkey Of God; Gubbio, San Gimignano, Siena - The Horse of Siena; Florence - The Painted Death; Venice - Daughter of the Lion; and Rome - The Holy Cross. Some of the tales are little-known legends, combining history with mystery. The longer stories are pure inventions whose outcome are the observations and experiences of an alert and sensitive traveler. But they are more than that. They are the creations of a poet whose imagination is enriched by humor. With 63 fabulous woodcuts. -
This mystery thriller written at the turn of the century begins thus: "Two o’clock - two o’clock in the morning. The bells had just chimed the hour. Big Ben had boomed forth its deep and solemn note over sleeping London. The patient constable on point-duty at the foot of Westminster Bridge had stamped his feet for the last time, and had been relieved by his colleague, who gave him the usual pass-word, “All right.” The tumultuous roar of traffic, surging, beating, pulsating, had long ago ceased, but the crowd of smart broughams and private hansoms still stood in New Palace Yard, while from the summit of St. Stephen’s tower the long ray of electricity streamed westward, showing that the House of Commons was still sitting. The giant Metropolis, the throbbing heart of the greatest empire the world has known, was silent. London, the city of varying moods, as easily pleased, as easily offended as a petted child; London, the dear, smoke-blackened old city, which every Englishman loves and every foreigner admires; London, that complex centre of the universe, humdrum and prosaic, yet ever mysterious, poetic and wonderful, the city full of the heart’s secrets and of life’s tragedies, slept calmly and in peace while her legislators discussed and decided the policy of the Empire. The long rows of light on the deserted terrace and along the opposite shore in front of St. Thomas’s Hospital threw their shimmering reflection upon the black waters of the Thames; the cold wind swept roughly up the river, causing the gas-jets to flicker, so that the few shivering outcasts who had taken refuge on the steps of the closed doorway of Westminster Station, murmured as they pulled their rags more tightly round them. Only the low rumbling of a country wagon bearing vegetables to Covent Garden, or the sharp clip-clap of a cab-horse’s feet upon the asphalt, broke the quiet. Except for these occasional disturbances all else was as silent on that dark and cloudy night in late October as if the world were dead."
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Final Exits: Michael Largo
$10.00Death walks behind us and it's anywhere. This book is a cross between the Darwin Awards and actual statistics dealing with the way we die, from the absurd to the tragic. Categories include: Bed and breakfast establishments; old fridges; stowaways; stampedes; hiccoughs; and some very surreal events involving office photocopiers. There is also coverage of burial customs, famous last words and more than 400 black and white photographs and illustrations. -
In 1902, newly-married Jeannie Gunn (Mrs Aeneas Gunn) left the security and comfort of her Melbourne home to travel to the depths of the Northern Territory, where her husband had been appointed manager of ‘The Elsey’, a large cattle station. One of the very few white women in the area, she was at first resented by people on and around the station, till her warmth and spirit won their affection and respect. She had an unerring ear and eye for the sounds and sights of the country, and this is her moving and simple account of her life amidst the beauty and cruelty of the land, and the isolation and loneliness - together with the comradeship and kindness of those around her. Abridged and adapted school edition. Angus and Roberson,1962. Photo illustrations. -
Lietenant Garrett Byrne has just recently been promoted to take command of a squad of black soldiers. Irish-born and no-nonsense, he clashes frequently with his second-in-command, and struggles with his feelings over being placed in charge of such a squad. His troop is assigned the duty of guiding and protecting a band of reservation Comanches who want to hunt buffalo. Along the way, they encounter hide hunters, a white homestead family with a mother and two small children, and a band of Indian-hunting Texas Rangers. It's a volatile mix was the journey becomes a grim tale of chase and survival amid racial hatred and violence.
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Book II in the Katy series. Dr. Carr's mind is firmly made up. Katy and her little sister Clover are to spend a year away at boarding school. A strange place and far from home, but on arrival the girls have an inkling that it might turn out to be rather different from their expectations. One thing is for sure, it certainly isn't going to be dull with Rose Red as an ally. -
A very unusual and compelling tale of the Three Wise Men and their possible origins: Melchior, the ascetic scholar; Gaspar, the barbarian; and Balthazar, the slave who has escaped from a cruel, vicious mistress. The story begins with Mary, preparing for her marriage to Joseph and learning of her appointed task from the Archangel Gabriel; then the scene moves to Korea, where Melchior, the aged astronomer, has left his home to follow the star whose coming had been so long foretold. Each man reveals his motives and emotions as they make a hazardous physical journey - there are robbers and inn-keepers, Romans and Greeks, princes and Jews - but there is also the spiritual journey of each of these men...the journey that will lead them to a humble destination of the greatest importance. -
Beginning in Victoria's England of the 1880s, the teenaged Peridot learns that Mr Cheke, the chemist, is not her real father. When he dies, she begins to make her own way in the world and searches for traces of her mother, who died not long after she was born. She becomes a paid companion to Geraldine, a temperamental and wealthy young invalid girl who is under the guardianship of her debonair bachelor uncle, Adrian Hope-Winter. When Adrian proposes marriage, Peridot accepts, never dreaming that she will become a star player in a celebrated and scandalous divorce case or that she will become a pioneer for women entering the workforce. Rich with very visible and real characters and an accurate portrayal of life in the Victorian Age. With charming end-chapter illustrations by Philip Gough.
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Hardy’s People: Frank Hardy
$15.00Truthful Jones is the teller of the world's tallest tales - how to beat parking officers, the four-legged lottery, crime, politics and death. He tells behind-the-scenes stories about the government of Nifty Neville Wran, Bob Hawke, Menzies and Fraser; why attendances are falling at Aussie Rules matches and the inside story on cricket 'sledging'. Want to back the Melbourne Cup winner with the perfect system? Truthful has the tips. A selection of the best from Hardy's column in People magazine. -
Two short stories: Little Brown House: The senator's wife - a life of receptions, dinners, social occasions and connections - can feel herself ever more distanced from her successful husband with every passing day. When she sees a little brown house for sale, she impulsively and secretly buys it and gives it to Annie, a homeless lady, who transforms it into a home of laughter, good food and a haven for mothers and children. Her kind act reveals a secret - about the senator. The Youngest Officer: Bruce, or 'Duny' as he likes to call himself, is only a little boy when his young mother dies. His father, a regimental officer, is heartbroken and the regimental wives take little Duny to their hearts. But when the regiment is shipped out, Duny must go and live with Great Aunt Lydia - a very different life. But he always remembers that his duty is to the regiment - and his endearing loyalty reveals a dark family secret.
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