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The true story of the man who pioneered the Flying Doctors and Bush Hospitals of Australia in the early 1900's. Ever the dreamer, Flynn did not rest until his dream of saving lives in the bush was realised through a revolutionary new system of using light aeroplanes as ambulances to help overcome the problems of distance in the huge Australian Outback. With black and white photographs. -
This fabulous omnibus volume contains: If Only The Could Talk: When the newly qualified vet James Herriot, arrives in the small Yorkshire village of Darrowby in 1937, he has no idea of the new friends he will meet or adventures that lie ahead. It's not long before he's swept into the Darrowby life - all the toughness and humour; and the joys and heartbreaks. It Shouldn't Happen To A Vet: How on earth did James Herriot come to be sitting on a high Yorkshire moor, smelling vaguely of cows? James isn't sure, but he knows that he loves it. This second hilarious volume of memoirs contains more tales of James' unpredictable boss Siegfried Farnon, his charming student brother Tristan, animal mayhem galore and his first encounters with a beautiful girl called Helen. Let Sleeping Vets Lie: With two years experience behind him, James Herriot still feels privileged working on the beautiful Yorkshire moors as assistant vet at the Darrowby practice. Time to meet yet more unwilling patients and a rich cast of supporting owners. Full of hilarious tales of the cantankerous Siegfreid, his charming student brother Tristan, the joys of spring lambing, a vicious cat called Boris and James' jinxed courtship of the lovely Helen. Vet In Harness: The Yorkshire dales have never seemed more beautiful for James - he has a lovely wife by his side, a partner's plate on the gate and the usual menagerie of farm animals, pets and owners demanding his constant attention and teaching him a few lessons along the way. All of the old Darrowby friends are on top form - Siegfried thrashes round the practice, Tristan occasionally buckles down for finals and James is signed up for a local cricket team. There's all the regulars too - such as Mrs Pumphrey's Pekinese Tricki Woo, and Gertrude the beer-swilling pig. Timeless tales from an era now regrettably gone for ever. -
The dearth of suitable introductory texts presents a serious obstacle to the study of the Egyptian language, so this practical grammar answers a longstanding need. Its well-known and highly respected author, a Keeper of the Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities at the British Museum, has written many other popular Dover books on Egyptology. Contents include lists of frequently used signs and determinatives, a short vocabulary of about 500 words, a series of 31 texts and extracts (with interlinear transliteration and word-for-word translation), and a few untransliterated and untranslated texts (with glossary), to be worked out independently. This is a valuable book for archaeologists, anthropologists, and anyone with a professional or amateur interest in Ancient Egypt. -
The frank, honest and heartbreaking true story of parents faced with the unimaginable—a terminal diagnosis for their young adopted daughter. What follows is an extraordinary tale of sacrifice, resilience, and the power of love to overcome. Jia-Mei was the child Sharon Guest and Stuart Neal had always wanted and, following a protracted adoption process, they excitedly traveled to China to collect her from a Chinese orphanage. Friends and family affectionately called her Jessie Mei Mei and welcomed her to a new life in Australia. Jessie was the perfect eighteen-month-old child—gregarious and funny and easy to love. But, from the beginning, Sharon, in that way that parents do, suspected something wasn't quite right about Jessie. She was too serious and immobile and learned quite slowly. When they adopt Bi Bi, another Chinese baby, Jessie's behavior worries them so much that they seek medical help only to hear what no parent is ever prepared to hear—their beautiful daughter has a degenerative condition that means she will be lucky to see her twelfth birthday. What happens next is the all too common and shocking story of how a country as rich as Australia shamefully fails to provide assistance to families in need. The bureaucratic silliness of government departments and their systemic inadequacy in supporting high needs children and adults leads to extreme actions on the part of their exhausted families. Illustrated with colour photographs. -
An incredible voyage of discovery from the frozen summit of Ben Nevis to the white sands of the Isle of Scilly; and from the rain-drenched tip of western Ireland to the dry expanses of East Anglia. Alan descends a Yorkshire waterfall twice as tall as Niagara Falls, climbs one of the highest mountains in Scotland, forages with red squirrels in Formby, takes a trip back in time to find hippos roaming Trafalgar Square, a huge forest from Land's End to John O'Groats and prehistoric reptiles paddling Britain's tropical seas. Here is the evolution of the British landscape and wildlife through dramataic geological, cliatic and human change, and an examination of the land today with fresh challenges and responsibilities for us to face. -
Leonard Nimoy's memoir of a fascinating career - and the strange, wonderful, complicated relationship he had with his alter-ego, Spock and the phenomenon that is Star Trek. From the earliest days in the creation of the Star Trek Universe, when NBC executives told Gene Roddenberry to 'drop the Martian', through to his performance as Mr. Spock on a two part episode of The Next Generation this book tells the full inside story of Leonard Nimoy's long and intense association with Star Trek, in front of and behind the camera. -
Goldwyn: Arthur Marx
$15.00The incredible tale of Samuel Goldwyn, who emigrated alone to America as a teenager, became a glove salesmen and then made his way to the top of the fledgling film industry by some very questionable ways and means. Did he really ask David O. Selznick, "So, who've you got to play Scarface O'Hara?" And did he really believe that 'a verbal contract wasn't worth the paper it's printed on'? Arthur Marx shows us a Goldwyn who was a highly complex and puzzling individual. He supplies in abundance more famous Goldwynisms - and a good many stories printed here for the first time. Rich in anecdotal detail about both Goldwyn’s personal and professional life, this biography is a testament to his role as both a perfectionist in art and a founder of one of America’s great industries. The author is the son of Groucho Marx and thus had access to many of those mentioned in this biography. -
'We're happy little Vegemites, as bright as bright can be...' Who remembers Vegemite sandwiches in their school lunch boxes? Or, when you felt a bit crook, Vegemite on Sao biscuits to settle your stomach? Generations of Aussie kids have been raised on Vegemite. In 1992, Kraft produced the 70th Happy Birthday Vegemite book, full of games, memorabilia, recipes, advertisement and facts all about Vegemite. V not only stood for Vegemite - it stood for vitamins and vitality, vim and vigor! -
Author John O'Grady's (Nino Culotta) father, with no practical experience and very little money, threw up city life and became a farmer - he bought his land, worked hard, applied the latest scientific methods - and went broke. Yet O'Grady has wonderful memories of growing up on the farm near Tamworth and recounts them all here with his usual wry humour.
