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Over 1000 hints and recipes for making your own wine and beers - an enjoyable hobby you can share with friends and make great savings in costs, too. There's sections on country wines, fruit wines, sparkling wines, malt syrup beers, fruit beers, ciders, liqueurs and even flavoured vinegars for cooking. All the information is here - ingredients, equipment and step by step instructions. -
Well, perhaps not quite 1001 - but it certainly a fascinating, hand-picked cross-section of classic conversation from Andrew Denton's Enough Rope. Many feature previously unreleased material and are guaranteed to please and inspire; this is an eminently browsable and instantly addictive book. Among the guests are Cate Blanchett, Bono, Steve Irwin,Alan Bond, Elton John, Mel Brooks, Jane Goodall, Matt Lucas and David Williams, Tim Winton and Michael 'Parky' Parkinson. With black and white photographs. -
Never before had royal authority been so fundamentally challenged. Eight centuries later, 63 clauses of the original Magna Carta are still in use. But this is not a dry treatise of this well-covered historical event: it is also what it was like to live in that momentous year. Fashion, food, religion, sex, education and medicine...Spectacles were invented...windmills were erected...Oxford became the first university and the cathedrals of Lincoln and Salisbury were built. Full of rich detail, from great matters of state to everyday domestic life. -
1788: Watkin Tench
$9.00Watkin Tench stepped ashore at Botany Bay with the First Fleet in January 1788. He was in his late twenties, a captain of the marines and on the adventure of his life. Insatiably curious with a natural genius for storytelling, Tench wrote two accounts of the infant colony: A Narrative Of The Expedition To Botany Bay and A Complete Account Of The Settlement At Port Jackson. He brings to life the legendary figures of Bennelong, Arabanoo and Governor Phillip and records the voices of the convicts as they make new lives in their new country. Edited and introduced by Tim Flannery. -
Scandals, disasters, shocks and crises: 1932 could truly be described as one of the most electrifying years in Australian history, alive with unforgettable characters and momentous events. So much happened in that fateful year, becoming the stuff of enduring national legend: the Sydney Harbour Bridge opened by surprise with the slashing sword of Captain Francis de Groot; the birth of the Australian Broadcasting Commission; the mysterious death of the beloved race horse Phar Lap; the controversial dismissal of NSW Premier Jack Lang; and the start of cricket's infamous Bodyline series. Ivy Field, in the most notorious divorce case of the decade, sued for today's equivalent of $350,00 in alimony to support her lifestyle of imported lace underwear and $5000 dresses. Overshadowing all else, the Great Depression seemed to single Australians out for special punishment, pushing a fragile young society to the brink of disintegration. By 1932 - the worst of it - a third of the population had been reduced to living like refugees in their own land while a lucky few emerged rich as third world rajahs. Dead men were walking - the tens of thousands of jobless tramp the bush roads, and among them, the prime suspect in a brutal murder. And 1932 was also a year that would see dauntless courage and endurance as ordinary Australians weathered a global catastrophe and become a critical turning point for a country balanced between its colonial past and its independent future. Illustrated with historical black and white photographs. -
Gone With The Wind was the most commercially successful film ever made. Decades later, it still retains all the excitement, drama, glamour and romance that the world flocked to see in 1939 and 1940. This is a lavish behind the scenes look at how it was made - from David O. Selznick's inspired determination to bring it to life, the hiring and firing of script writers, directors and cameramen; the casting of Clark Gable as Rhett and the year long search for the perfect Scarlett...followed by the seemingly unending editing, the sneak previews, the sneers of Hollywood and finally, the triumphant Atlanta premiere attended by four Civil War veterans and ten Academy Awards. This is a unique pictorial record of a film that sums up the madness and the genius of the Hollywood system and a tribute to the men and women who all contributed to Gone With The Wind . -
Including works from Welsh, Irish and Scottish Gaelic, Cornish, Breton and Manx, this Miscellany offers a rich blend of poetry and prose from the eighth to the nineteenth century and provides a unique insight into the minds and literature of the Celtic people. It is a literature dominated by a deep sense of wonder, wild inventiveness and a profound sense of the uncanny, in which the natural world and the power of the individual spirit are celebrated with astonishing imaginative force. Arranged by theme: from the hero-tales of Cú Chulainn, Bardic poetry and elegies to the sensitive and intimate writings of early Celtic Christianity. -
The stories of five pioneer families of the central west of New South Wales. The Coates family of Bathurst and Kings Plains; The Luck family of Blayney; the Smith family of Gallymont; the Green family of Neville; and the Healey Family of Mandurama. Illustrated with archival black and white photographs.
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An unusual and enchanting album of all things cat and cats - cats with personalities, drawn, painted, sculpted or sewn by international artists; cats doing everything from sitting pretty to participating in circus acts; cats in history and worshipped cats...it's a light-hearted look at cats in life and art. Many beautiful illustrations.
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