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Ghostland: Elliot O’Donnell
$90.00Britain's most famous ghost hunter tells of his childhood experiences and encounters with ghosts , as well as touching on a wealth of other paranormal events: corpse candles, elementals, curses, doubles or 'doppelgangers', the hauntings of the Thames Embankment and much more from his vast store of personal experience. -
An ebullient play inspired by the stories of the homeless men 'on the wallaby' who roamed the Australian roads in search of work during the Great Depression. The story traces the misfortunes of the O'Brien family, waterside workers in Port Adelaide. The effect of eight years' of unemployment, birth, separation, strikes and subsistence on the family are seen in the light of the political strategies of the time. It also incorporates the death of the old music hall theatre and the rise of the age of mass communication. -
In 404 B.C., the Spartans demolished the famous Long Walls of Athens, signalling the complete victory of the city of Lycurgus and the subordination of all Greece to the Spartan interest. Yet within forty years, the pride of Sparta had been humbled, their glory gone for ever. Xenophon lived through this time; despite being Athenian he was intimate with some of the most influential people in Sparta, including King Agesilaus. Here is the on-the-spot documentation of the last years of the independent cities of Hellas, by someone who saw it all. Translated by Rex Warner. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/imperial-caesar-rex-warner/
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Lennie Lower was born in Dubbo in 1903 and after school joined the Royal Australian Navy, which he left in circumstances that are somewhat obscure. During the Depression he seems to have led a hobo existence and began contributing humorous material to newspapers, later becoming a full time journalist. In this volume: The Secret Lives Of Lennie L:ower; Bloodhound Lower Of The Yard; Husband Lower Of The Back Yard; Hints For Young Home-muckers; Bearding Grandpa In His Den; Putting Curry Into The Curriculum; How To Be A Lighthouse Keeper Or Almost Anything; Is There An Elf On Your Shelf? Whaling, Chess And Other Indoor Sports; Science, Medicine And Other Lurks. Epilogue:The Melancholy Of Lennie Lower by Alexander MacDonald. Known for Here's Luck, Lower is still considered to be the comic genius of Australian journalism. He died in 1947.
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Yambo, a sixtyish rare-book dealer who lives in Milan, has suffered a loss of memory - he can remember the plot of every book he has ever read, every line of poetry, but he no longer knows his own name, doesn't recognize his wife or his daughters, and remembers nothing about his parents or his childhood. In an effort to retrieve his past, he withdraws to the family home somewhere in the hills between Milan and Turin. There, in the sprawling attic, he searches through boxes of old newspapers, comics, records, photo albums, and adolescent diaries. And so Yambo relives the story of his generation: Mussolini, Catholic education and guilt, Josephine Baker, Flash Gordon, Fred Astaire. His memories run wild, and the life racing before his eyes takes the form of a graphic novel. Yambo struggles through the frames to capture one simple, innocent image: that of his first love. Illustrated. -
This is a screen adaptation of Orwell's Keep The Aspidistra Flying. Comstock's struggle in 1930s England - that's George Comstock, budding poet and suitably angry young man - to write poetry and be a free man means that he must throw up his job as a star copywriter at an illustrious advertising firm to work in a dingy book shop for far less money. It also means that he must sponge off his hard-working sister, girlfriend and wealthier friends, while calling every man 'comrade' and loudly deploring the 'God of Money' - not to mention loudly abhorring that eternal symbol of stodgy respectability, the dreaded aspidistra. George has to descend into the squalid, bed bug-ridden depths of disreputable Lambeth to prove his point, while his patient and ever-practical girlfriend Rosemary stands by and waits for him to come to his senses. With many guest appearances by well-loved English character actors. -
Over the modern world lies the shadow of mysteries that neither reason nor science can explain. In this volume, investigative author the late John Pinkney covers: The Corpse, The Duke and the Nazi Spy: Was Edward, Duke of Windsor in deep with the Nazis? Don't Disturb the Dead: the discovery of a mummified hunter in 1990, 53 centuries frozen in the Otzal Mountains, seemed to unleash a curse on those who disturbed him. The Man Who Vanished From The Sky - Inexplicable Disappearances: In 1928 the world's third-richest man, Alfred Loewenstein, vanished from a plane in mid-flight; The Book That Foretold Diana's Doom - Premonitions in Books and Films : 'David Lancaster's book, Caroline R, was published in 1980 - which foretold Diana's life from the moment of her marriage to Prince Charles; Nightmare In The Garden - Reports From Reality's Edge: In 1999, a roadhouse cook was awoken at 1.30 a.m. by her dogs barking. When she went out to quiet them, she saw something she would never forget, and which would rob her of sleep for months to come; The Secret Agent And The Uncanny Cloud - Wartime Mysteries: An elite British secret agent is dropped in the wrong place for her mission, yet an inexplicable force guided her to the right place..and she wasn't the only one to have this experience. Seashells In The Trees and Other Strange Skyfalls: In 1985, a mass of exotic seashells usually found in the warm waters of the Philippines, cascaded onto a village in England; Insane Egotist - The Mass Murderer Who Adored Publicity: The FBI's finest couldn't crack the Zodiac Killer's code - but a high school history teacher could. The Dead Sailor Who Invaded a Photo - Ghost Mysteries; Did Amelia Die? Or Did the Government Lie? Courageous aviatrix Amelia Earhart allegedly vanished with her navigator in July 1937 while circumnavigating the world. Eighteen months later, the US Government declared them both officially dead. But in the 70 years since, scores of people have come forward with very good reasons to believe that her disappearance may be the biggest cover-up in American history; Triangular Evidence - The Geometric Markings on UFO Abductees' Skins; The Woman Who Slept For 32 Years: Carolina Olssen lived a quiet life, with one claim to fame; she slept uninterrupted from 1876 to 1908 then woke apparently healthy and unaffected by this extraordinary event; Hell From Within: Spontaneous human combustion has been documented for thousands of years, yet still, science does not know what causes it. Did James Leininger Live Before? The Riddle of the Reborns: Six year old James not only claimed to be a naval fighter pilot who had died in World War II, he knew details that only the US Navy and the dead man's family could know. Jewels From Jupiter: In 1851, John Evans, part of a team of geologists and engineers, stumbled on a massive, gem-studded meteorite deep in Oregon territory. He casually took a few samples and left again, neglecting to chart its location. Treasure hunters have been looking for it ever since. The Strange Case of the Separated Sisters - Astonishing Coincidences: British siblings Evelyn and Edna were separated at birth. Yet 58 years later, Evelyn found out that her long-lost sister had moved in next door. The Dream That Proved A Dead Man Was Alive - Sleep and the Seventh Sense: In 1944, the Australian Army broke the news to Eddie Hooker's family that their son was missing in action, believed dead. The family were shattered, but Eddie's brother Harold was unable to mourn. He dreamed for weeks that Eddie would come home, healthy and happy. Harold's dream came true in every detail after the end of the Pacific War. -
A fabulous compilation of political cartoons from a variety of sources world wide. In this volume: Europe Before The Great War; The First World War; The Uneasy Peace; Depression And Disarmament; The Rise Of The Nazis. With a chapter on Background and guide to cartoon analysis. -
This book is not a series of fictitious adventures of the great Captain Cook, the eighteenth century navigator and explorer, but a straightforward statement of his life and achievements. It can be classed as a biography, although Cook's life can be read as a well-written book of adventures. There's extracts from Cook's logs describing, among other things, life in the South Pacific in the 18th century. An extraordinary narrative of life, trade and discovery, his success at preventative measures for scurvy and his ability to create long lasting respect from islanders, kings and chiefs from Tahiti to Hawaii.
