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Ben Rutherford was brought up on a high country sheep station in New Zealand, and brought up the old fashioned way. Here he shares his stories of high country farming, swaggers, station cooks and their eccentric temperament, dog trials, horse racing, pig and deer shooting and other rumbustious elements of the New Zealand way of life...a way of life so rumbustious that a farmer member of the Christchurch Club was once heard to exclaim: "It's not the rabbits I'm worrying about, it's the Rutherfords!" -
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. -
Mrs. Ritter left a very comfortable home to keep house for her husband and a Norwegian trapper in a hut that measured 12ft x 6 ft on Spitzbergebn, some 60 miles from the only neighbour. She was there for a year, often alone for long periods of time while the men were about their affairs - she was alone during her first Arctic blizzard; at other times she went with them on their journeys across snow and ice. Although she came to the experience reluctantly, she fell in love with the lonely island wilderness and all its marvels - from its dark and violent winter to the rose and violet hues of the Arctic summer. Here are stories of bear hunts, blizzards, hazard trekking, making friends with a white polar fox which she named Mikkl as well as the domestic scenes of life within four narrow walls. At this time, the Arctic was regarded as for men only - but Christiane proved this to be all wrong.
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On April 6, 1924, eight courageous young Army airmen too off on a 26,000 mile journey into the record books. Three years before Lindbergh flew from New York to Paris, they set out from Seattle in four open-cockpit bi-planes, determined to circle the globe - and they did it. They were battered by blizzards and typhoons, lost in sandstorms and blinding fog and had even given up two of their number for dead. Here is the epic story of the first around-the-world flight. -
Ten noted anthropologists examine the evolution of Aboriginal power from pre-white contact to the 1980s. The first five chapters deal with power relations and ideologies in traditional and tradition-oriented Aboriginal societies and power in relation to myth, land rights, leadership and socialisation. The remaining chapters focus on Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders are are more integrated into Australian society, mainly urban dwellers; the political middlemen, internal colonialism, the formation of a pan-Aborignal identity and the question of Aboriginal power in an urban setting in general. As a whole, the book offers a wide-ranging examination of the power possessed by Aborigines and how Aborigines perceive power among themselves and in relation to others. The contributors are: Michael. C. Howard; E. Kolig; D.H. Turner; K. Maddock; F.R. Myers; R. Tonkinson; J. Beckett; J.C. Pierson; and D.J. Jones; J. Hill-Burnett. -
Kenneth Williams, star of stage, radio, screen and Carry On put together a collection of witty, wicked put-downs, retorts, comebacks - and all those great responses we never think of at the time! These have been collected from far and wide across the world of film, literature, politics and celebrity. From Dorothy Parker, observing a notorious society flirt: That woman can speak eighteen languages and can;t say 'No' in any of them. Or Groucho Marx, to a delighted author: From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter...some day I intend to read it... After W.C. Fields made his feelings about children widely known, he was asked how he really liked children: His response? "Boiled or fried..." Illustrated by ffolkes. -
Acting My Life: Ian Holm
$10.00After making a brilliant impact at the RSC in the 1960s, Ian Holm consolidated his reputation with work for Harold Pinter then turned to film, appearing in cult/popular classics such as Alien, Chariots of Fire, The Fifth Element and Lord Of The Rings. His varied career has seen him play an android, Napoleon, King Lear, Hercule Poirot, Lewis Carroll, a hobbit and much more. Large Print edition. -
Milligan takes his unwary reader from the outbreak of war in 1939 - 'it must have been something we said' - through his attempts to avoid enlistment - 'time for my appendicitus, I thought' - and his gunner training in Bexhill -'There was one drawback. No ammunition' - to the landing at Algiers in 1943 'I closed my eyes and faced the sun. I fell down a hatchway.' And of course, his mission to cause Hitler's downfall...'At Victoria station the R.T.O. gave me a travel warrant, a white feather and a picture of Hitler marked "This is your enemy". I searched every compartment, but he wasn't on the train...' Loads of bathos, pathos and gales of ribald laughter, this is a barely sane helping of military goonery and superlative Milliganese. -
Actress Judy Cornwell has delighted audiences for nearly fifty years and is very well-known for her role as Daisy in Keeping Up Appearances. Her memoir describes her childhood growing up in Britain during the war, and then in Australia where her family emigrated. Retruning to England at the age of 12 she became a professional dancer and comedienne in her teens. Her long and diverse career includes radio roles (The Navy Lark); film roles opposite greats such as Audrey Hepburn, Peter O'Toole and Dudley Moore; a season with the Royal Shakespeare Company and a great many appearances on classic television shows such as Midsomer Murders, Marple, Doctor Who and Eastenders , not to mention her own comedy series Moody and Pegg. Illustrated with black and white photographs.
