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Reunion: Janise Beaumont
$10.00Ten friends; thirty years of stories. Do you sometimes wonder what happened to your school-friends. What have their lives been like since leaving the school gates for the last time? Janise Beaumont's friends, from the baby boomer generation were approaching fifty, so she decided to sit down with them, reminisce and catch up. They remember when Kennedy was shot; Catcher In The Rye mania; warm school milk; Australia's polio epidemic; playing Spin The Bottle and Brigitte Bardot dresses. Some were married, some had divorced and some had remarried...sometimes unhappily. One has left her husband for another woman. One has left the convent for a husband and family. They have borne children and buried parents; their children have brought great joy and in some cases, struggle and grief. These stories represent an entire generation of women, yet each story is different - ten unique journeys. Illustrated with black and white photos. -
George Band, the youngest member of the successful Everest team and his climbing companion Joe Brown, one of the first pair to climb Kangchenjunga, tells the story of the 1954 Cambridge University Mountaineering Club's expedition in Northern Pakistan, its objective being Rakaposhi - one of the grandest mountains. This is a lively and vivid account of the whole adventure, beginning with the departure of the overland party from Cambridge. Three of this party drove the whole way to Rawalpindi, via Dover, Paris, Lucerne, Trieste, Belgrade, Istanbul, Damascus, Tehran, Quetta and Peshawar. The expedition then made its way to the Karakoram and Rakaposhi, where although weather robbed them of any chance of an attempt on the summit, these six young mountaineers achieved and experienced much and gave - in Eric Shipton's words - 'a fine example of what may be achieved by a privately conducted expedition on a high and difficult peak'. Illustrated with black and white photographs. -
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. -
Thousands of Australians have visited New Zealand on business or holiday trips, but Frank Clune was the first to write a full-length book describing Australia's sister Dominion from one end to the other. With the zest and experience of a world traveller, Frank Clune visited every province and all the principal cities, boroughs, and tourist resorts, to collect material for his forty-fourth book. He describes vividly with his usual careful observation and lively, easy-to-read style, what he saw, what he did, and what he learnt on his wanderings in the "miniature continent", which he believes to be unlike any other land on earth. With black and white photographs. -
Gundabooka, Milparinka, Tibooburra, Innamincka...just some of the places on Clune's path when he set out from Sydney on a 2000 mile tour of Western New South Wales and beyond, treading the paths of the pioneers and experiencing the beauty as well as the toughness of the land. He finds something of interest in every town and settlement, stories and anecdotes and odd and fascinating details of history. Illustrated with black and white photographs. -
This biography of the author of I, Claudius and Goodbye To All That, written by his nephew covers the years 1895 - 1926. Regarded as a major assessment of one of the finest British poets of the 20th century, it gives all the intimacies of Graves' early life: an idyllic Edwardian childhood in which he and his siblings composed poems and songs for each other; his schooldays at Charterhouse where poetry became his escape from bullying; his service in the Great War, which left him ill with shell-shock; his first marriage to Nancy, daughter of artist William Nicholson and his temperamental friendship with Siegfried Sasson. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Jacket design by Wendy Taylor, and shows Graves aged 29. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/goodbye-to-all-that-robert-graves/ -
Roberta Cowell was the first known British trans woman to undergo sex reassignment surgery. Born Robert Marshall Cowell in 1918, she was a British racing driver and Second World War fighter pilot who was captured by the Germans and imprisoned for five months in Stalag Luft I until the prison was liberated by the Red Army in April 1945. After separating from her wife of seven years in 1948, suffering from depression and flashbacks to the war, consultation sessions with a second Freudian psychiatrist revealed that her unconscious mind was predominantly female. Between 1950 and 1951, Roberta underwent a inguinal orchiectomy and vaginoplasty and in May 1951, was able to have a new birth certificate issued showing her change of name and change of recorded sex. At this time, transsexuality had become closely associated in the public mind with male homosexuality and effeminacy amongst men, both highly taboo subjects. Cowell's story broke ground, disrupting this narrative. Although she remained active in flying and British motor racing up until the 1970s, she found it very difficult to gain employment. Roberta died in October 2011 - only six people attended her funeral and in accordance with her instructions, her death was not publicly reported until two years later. Illustrated with black and white photographs. -
This profusely illustrated volume celebrates the legendary collaboration of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. Filled with original performance photographs, set and costume designs, backstage candids and lively anecdotes, the book covers the team's best known works: Oklahoma! State Fair, Carousel, Allegro, South Pacific, The King And I; Me And Juliet; Pipe Dream; Cinderella; Flower Drum Song and The Sound of Music. Each are covered in-depth and aficionado and fan are brought to the understanding of why these shows were ground-breaking successes; how their work impacted their contemporaries and those who followed in their footsteps. With beautiful photographs. -
NOT a film novelisation, but a humorously dry account of the making of the famous Bond adventure Live and Let Die - as only Roger Moore can tell it! It's his personal diary, the frank uncensored story of what really happens in the making of a super film - the fights, jealousies, arguments, frustrations, dangers - and the fun. Illustrated with colour photographs from the sets and the film.
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