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Menzies was Prime Minister of Australia from 1939-41 and 1949-66. This is a collection of reminiscent essays about Baldwin, Chamberlain, Atlee, DeValera, Roosevelt, Truman, JFK, and more lengthily about his friends Felix Frankfurter and Dean Acheson, as well as his hero Churchill. He reviews his participation in the Suez Committee of 1956 and upholds Eden's action. Menzies seems to take himself less seriously than most statesmen in that he has an evident sense of humor. He was virtually obsessed with retaining Australia's whites-only immigration policy, and opposed intervention from any quarter in Rhodesian and South African affairs because it would be a dangerous precedent. His 1960 correspondence with Verwoerd on such topics is included. The other essays - on the virtues of the monarchy, the British form of government, and cricket, are frankly Old Boyish. -
From the author of I Can Jump Puddles. It's time to visit Alan Marshall's Australia: sitting on the sliprail exchanging yarns, driving a buggy down long dusty trails. And meet such wonderful characters as Lance Skuthorpe, who tethered a bull in Bourke Street and offered five quid to anyone who could ride him for half a minute and Binjarrpooma, the terror of Arnhem Land. Make a visit to an Australia that is now gone. -
Alfred Hitchcock was a strange child. Fat, lonely, burning with fear and ambition, his childhood was an isolated one, scented with fish from his father's shop. Afraid to leave his bedroom, he would plan great voyages, using railway timetables to plot an exact imaginary route across Europe. So how did this fearful figure become the one of the most respected film directors of the twentieth century? As an adult, Hitch rigorously controlled the press's portrait of himself, drawing certain carefully selected childhood anecdotes into full focus and blurring all others out. In this quick-witted portrait, Ackroyd reveals something more: a lugubriously jolly man fond of practical jokes, who smashes a once-used tea cup every morning to remind himself of the frailty of life. Iconic film stars make cameo appearances, just as Hitch did in his own films. Grace Kelly, Carey Grant and James Stewart despair of his detached directing style, and, perhaps most famously of all, Tippi Hedren endures cuts and bruises from a real-life fearsome flock of birds. Peter Ackroyd wrests the director's chair back from the master of control and discovers what lurks just out of sight...in the corner of the shot. -
With his usual skill, Frank Clune weaves history and contemporary fact into an exciting and significant pattern that will delight armchair travellers who accompany him on this unusual tour through Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, Austria and Greece, by plane, train and jeep. The primary reason for Clune's journey was to learn something about the work of the International Refugee Organisation, to see the migrant camps and to see displaced persons go through the initial stages that prepared them to become new Australians and listens to their hopes and dreams of Australia. With black and white photographs. -
With his usual skill, Frank Clune weaves history and contemporary fact into an exciting and significant pattern that will delight armchair travellers who accompany him on this unusual tour through Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, Austria and Greece, by plane, train and jeep. The primary reason for Clune's journey was to learn something about the work of the International Refugee Organisation, to see the migrant camps and to see displaced persons go through the initial stages that prepared them to become new Australians and listens to their hopes and dreams of Australia. With black and white photographs. -
Take a trip back in time to: Powder-blue Formica coffee bars and the new cappuccino machines, Elvis, Wurlitzer juke boxes, Coke and Pepsi, Teddy boys, quiff hair-dos and layers and layers of stiff crepe petticoats. Wonderful photos illustrating the memories. -
Carew - real name John Mohun Carew - attended Marlborough College in 1934-38 and then joined the British forces in 1939, serving with the Gurkha Rifles in India, Burma, Malaya and Indonesia, and with the Devon Regiment in Hong Kong and Malaya. He was awarded the Military Cross and Burma Star. This is the story of ten years of Carew's life - fighting, savage years, dicing with death - and winning. It is also his first of many books on warfare in history. -
Chichester follows the gold, wool and grain clippers in the majestic days of sail, from Britain round the Cape of Good Hope and back to Britain, taking the reader stage by stage and including stories from single yachtsmen and crewed yachts: racing, shipwreck, total disappearance, icebergs, ice and giant squids. Here's a few very satisfied readers: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/489. Along_The_Clipper_Way?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=51vh4CIKIA&rank=1 -
Amelia Earhart: Nevin Bell
$55.00The story of Amelia Earhart, the tall, blue eyed American girl who became the most famous woman flyer of her day. She was charming, utterly fearless and loved flying for its own sake, making two perilous solo flights across the Atlantic and the Pacific. Just before World War II, on the final leg of her round-the-world flight, she disappeared in the Pacific under mysterious circumstances which have never yet been adequately explained. With black and white and colour photographs and prints. -
Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964. Inspiring, outrageous, brave, egotistical... A thundering paradox of a man. Douglas MacArthur, one of only five men in history to have achieved the rank of General of the United States Army. He served in World Wars I and II and the Korean War, and is famous for stating that "in war, there is no substitute for victory." This is an examination of an exemplary army career, the stunning successes (and lapses) on the battlefield, and the turbulent private life of the soldier-hero whose mystery and appeal created a uniquely American legend. Illustrated with black and white photos.
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Facsimile edition. Originally published in 1826 for the benefit of prospective migrants, Atkinson's Account has since attracted a wide and curious audience. Atkinson was a free settler who drew on his own experience to present the Account and he made valuable suggestions as to how colonists might improve their practices by adapting principles already accepted by the better English farmers. A great wealth of information here for the student of early social and economic history. Cover art: View At Oldbury (unsigned) attributed to Mrs. James Atkinson.
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A rich and varied treasure house of Australiana with a range of material to suit every taste and interest. This is the virtue of such a book for, within this single volume are collected extracts from every field and aspect of Australian life. Such diverse elements as the humour of 'Mo' and Lennie Lower, the poetry of Henry Kendall and Adam Lindsay Gordon, reminiscences of the famous, and quotations from statesmen, scholars and scoundrels, are united by this theme. There is something for every day. Illustrated with archival black and white photographs and illustrations.
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A fabulous little reference work written by a gardener who really did learn from trial and error from the time she was a child. A great many of our beautiful flowers and how to grow them are here:Christmas Bush, Native Hops, Banksia Honeysuckles, the cheerful Happy Wanderer (or Hardenbergia violacea) Brachycome, Native Mint and much more. Illustrated with colour lline drawings and paintings by the author. -
In 1969 , six Englishmen - well, one was Welsh and another was an interloping American...) came together to create a television programme about an unscrupulously, u trustworthy and frankly slimy theatrical agent called Monty Python. The resultant programme was said to be a Flying Circus...Here, for the first time, Monty himself tells the whole story of all that stuff, admittedly using the voices of several other people to do so. Consequently, he is very grateful to Messrs Chapman, Cleese, Idle, Gilliam, Jones and Palin. Monty Python's Flying Circus forever and a day changed the face of television comedy and now, 400 years later (well...thirty and a bit...) people are still talking about it...Here, in their own words, the men who made Monty Python tell their stories, from childhood lusts to their formative years to their break into television...the full block-busting story of Monty Python. Illustrated with colour abnd black and white photographs. -
In an age of instant communication across nations and the world, it's difficult to remember when Australia was separated from the rest of the world. Then, it could take three months or more for a letter to reach London from Australia. The advantages of rapid communication by the newly developed telegraphic system were obvious, but the linking of Australia to this system was a major undertaking. Charles Todd, Superintendent of Telegraphs in South Australia was a man of vision with a dream of an overland telegraph. Under his direction, South Australia built a line over three thousand kilometres long from Adelaide to Darwin - where the line would link up with underwater cable and so bring Australia into communication with the rest of the world. In just under 2 years, Todd's dream was realised - the line had been built through some of the most inhospitable country known to man, most of it uninhabited by white people. The men of the working parties showed great endurance as they battled to open up Central Australia and strove against the 'wet' of the Northern Territory. That they succeeded is a tribute to their determination in the face of odds that threatened to overwhelm them. Illustrated with black and white photographs and sketches. -
An Open Book: Monica Dickens
$12.00The great-great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens has established herself in book after book as a brilliant, compassionate and penetrating observer of people. Here, she observes herself, objectively and humorously, in the story of her life and work as a servant and nurse, journalist and friend, wife and mother and finally, as a writer.
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Paul Rusesabagina was an ordinary man - a quiet manager of the luxurious Hotel Milles Collines in Rwanda. But on April 6, 1994, mobs with machetes became cold-blooded murderers and commenced a slaughter of 800,000 civilians in just 100 days. Read that again - 800,000 citizens. Rusesabagina, with incredible courage, refused to bow to the madness that surrounded him. Confronting killers with a combination of diplomacy, flattery, and deception, he offered shelter to more than twelve hundred members of the Tutsi clan and Hutu moderates, while homicidal mobs raged outside with machetes. In his autobiography, he tells his story and explores the complexity of Rwanda's history and the insanity that turned friends and neighbours into killers. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/dvd-hotel-rwanda-don-cheadle-sophie-okonedo-nick-nolte/ -
A literary and spiritual journey of World Heritage sites in Australasia and South East Asia. Rock paintings thousands of years old, fabulous cities representing Cosmic Order, natural protected areas and the last remaining habitats of of rare animals. Beautiful photographs.
