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Although he is best remembered for his classic westerns like Stagecoach, My Darling Clementine, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Irish-American director John Ford (1895–1973) made 136 diverse films during his 51-year career, winning Oscars for The Informer, The Grapes of Wrath, The Battle of Midway, and The Quiet Man. A master of psychological manipulation, Ford had a knack for goading brilliant performances out of his actors, albeit often through intimidation and verbal abuse. Dan Ford, John's grandson, draws on the director's personal archives and on intimate reminiscences from his family and friends - including John Wayne, whose acting career Ford had launched - Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda, and George O'Brien to produce the most complete and honest portrait ever written of the man and his astonishing output. Pappy was often cantankerous, irascible, and drunk and rarely made time for his family, but few who worked with him could resist his appealing energy. -
Ancient Australia is often seen as a land of stagnation, and the early Australians long depicted as one of the most primitive peoples on earth. But Professor Blainey presents a different picture - in which the aboriginals were triumphant in their discovery of the land, their adaptation to it and in their mastery of its contrasting cliates, seasons and resources. Generations of aboriginals saw the great rising of the seas which isolated Australian and the sweeping changes in vegetation and wildlife. Far from being prisoners of a hostile continent, they created a lifestyle which suited their environment; established a network of overland commerce; found new medicines and drugs; developed ingenious ways of finding water in the desert; they were skilled hunters and herbalists and probably had a more varied - and more assured diet than most Europeans in the eighteenth century. Their nomadic wandering followed a logical pattern, reflecting forethought and knowledge of the land. An original and refreshing examination of the aboriginals' early complex society and economic structure. -
Originally published in 1926, this book was written in response to demand for a companion volume to The Heart of London. The disarming sincerity with which Morton writes is probably responsible for the charm and fascination of his books. The feel and smell of the city, its movement and life, find their way into these light-hearted wanderings, which are not always in the direction taken by the tourist, nor to see things that would interest the tourist. Combined with humour, observation, sympathy and a healthy curiosity, Morton offers anecdotes and musings that are still popular today. He takes the reader back to the days of Hansom cabs, flowers sellers, almshouses, the unfortunates who lived on the streets and hiring fairs. In this volume, from his daily trawls of London: The Spell of London; "The Keys" (The Tower of London); Inside "Big Ben"; Among the Kings (Tomb of the Unknown Warrior); Little Tigers; The Passionate Triangle; Good Form; Trial by Jury (The Old Bailey); Love and Lavender; Our Bridge of Sighs; A Voice in the Night; Fleet Street; The Front Row; "Battles Long Ago"; All in a Row; White Plague; 2 L.O; Ghosts and Pickaxes; One Hour of Life (Leather Lane Street Market); Sister Anne; The "Junior Turf"; Miss Jones in Bagdad (Berwick Market); The Glad Hand; A Screen Drama; Under the Arch; Keeping an Eye Open (Bow Street Police Station); Nobody's Women; Gold Watch Men; The Children's Ward; Two in a Tower (Croydon Aerodrome); The Boy in the Dark; One Minute to New York; On a Sunday; Just a Song; Mayfair's Cottage; The Engine Driver; Ham and History (The Royal Exchange); The Mild Giants; The Unseen Wife; The Last Farm; Scandalous; The Girl in a Box; Behind the Window; The Rotter; Turning of a Leaf; New Petticoat Lane (Notting Hill Rag Fair); Back Gardens; Out-Patients; Dog and Cat; Sixty Old Men (The Charter House); The Last Tube. -
George Barrington (1755 - 1840) a notorious pickpocket, was sentenced to seven years transportation to Botany Bay. In return for his aid is suppressing a mutiny aboard ship, he was released and made superintendent of convicts in the colony. This is an account of his life, in his words, with all the romance and adventure, hardship and danger of a life and the times. No dry facts or dates here - it's an enthralling story by one of our most fascinating early citizens - a talented and outrageous rogue who tells of crime and punishment in England; a perilous sea journey; the battle for survival in a new, undeveloped colony; the interactions with the aboriginal population; and the manners, customs, language and beliefs of the day. Illustrated with beautiful colour plates and black and white sketches. -
Nene: Peter Fitzsimons
$9.00Nene King was the queen of the Australian magazine world. For over four years King increased the circulation of Woman's Day by 400,000 sales a week. No cheque was too large to write, no paparazzi shot too intrusive, no story too outrageous - so long as she could serve up the must-have stories for her readers. In the late 80s and into the 90s, if there was a scandal happening somewhere in the world, chances are that Woman's Day would have an exclusive - with photos. She took the magazine to the number one spot and she became on of Australia's most powerful women - feared by the stars, courted by politicians, Kerry Packer's confidante and Queen Bee of the celebritocracy. She was in the Beatles' motel room when they visited Australia; she arrived in London in time for the Summer of Love and lived in South East Asia during the turbulent years of the Vietnam War. She went all the way from interviewing a young housewife by the name of Hazel Hawke - to interviewing the same Hazel and paying her a king's ransom for her side of the break-up with Bob and along the way interviewed Mae West and met Princess Diana. Keeping hr going for 22 years was the great love of her live, Patrick Bowring. But on May 24, 1996, Nene's life changed forever. -
The zestful, indefatigable and irrepressible Frank Clune investigates great cities and small villages, as well as an Old Master or two and chats to a young mechanic - and that contributes to the diversity of his presentation of historical backgrounds and the contemporary feel of the countries he visits - or as he calls it, Random Rambles in Paris, Eire, Iceland, Vienna and Belgium. Illustrated with black and white photographs. -
Over The Top With Jim: Hugh Lunn
$15.00–$75.00In 1950s' Brisbane the Cold War is hot news, and so were the cakes at Lunns for Buns, Fred and Olive's famous Annerley Junction cake shop.From the outrageous to the memorably ordinary, from the radio serials of the post-war years to the rock-and-roll of the Fifties, from sport to original sin and first love, this is a riotously funny yet moving story of a well-spent boyhood. From the author of Vietnam: A Reporter's War, this memoir is full of unforgettable characters and events, charting the formative years of Hugh Lunn and his inventive friend Jim Egoroff. -
This is no conventional biography of Henry Ford - the greatest and most maverick exponent of free enterprise. Rather, it's a fascinating study of Ford's philosophy of business and the strange personal idiosyncrasies of the man himself. Garrett sees Henry Ford for the genius that he was, as an entrepreneur who saw the possibilities and seized on them and of the obstacles Ford faced and overcame. He chronicles Ford's battles with the government and the unions and demonstrates that Ford could move with the times and stay innovative. Illustrated with black and white photographs. -
Reverend Sexton was president of the Aborigines Friends' Association, South Australia. The book contains many historical black and white photos. The Publisher's Note reads thus: "This book has been issued at the request of the Aborigines' Friends Association, Incorporated, Adelaide, South Australia. It contains a selection of articles written at various times by the President of the Association, a recognised authority on Aboriginal affairs. The illustrations contained in this volume have been taken from various publications of the Association. The keynote of the work is to be found in the author's insistent plea that the Aborigines should be given the full benefits of our British civilisation, along with the blessings of the Christian religion."
