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Eric Linklater, famous as novelist, playwright and historian was one of Orkney's most distinguished sons and knew the topography and the past and present of Orkney and Shetland as few other people. The author, who died in 1974, wrote about them with both understanding and affection. Orkney and Shetland have a unique place in British history. Indeed the two groups of islands did not become part of Scotland in any sense until the fifteenth century. They still retain that feeling of separation that has long since disappeared from other islands off the Scottish mainland. Both Orkney and Shetland are a delight for the archaeologist (the Stone Age remains are collectively the finest in the United Kingdom), the fisherman, and above all for anyone with a feeling for the remote and unspoilt. Here is landscape, sometimes rugged, sometimes gently undulating, but always hung between sea and sky, peopled with individualists, men of strength and endurance. Linklater saw the island communities as a product of geography and history, not as relics of the past but a society struggling to retain its identity, but at the same time moving with the twentieth century. Illustrated with black and white photographs.
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Jean Devanny (1894 - 1962) - author, political activist, and women's liberationist - was a leading figure in Australia's political and literary life. In the turbulent political climate of the 1930s, Devanny joined the Communist Party and rapidly became a redoubtable public speaker. A fiery figure, she clashed with the party line on events in Europe during World War II and under Stalin and had bitter disputes with party leaders over her “open” marriage and rumored love affairs. Obliged to write novels to support her family, she developed friendships with notable writers Katharine Susannah Prichard, Miles Franklin, and Frank Hardy. Her interest in issues of race, gender and sexuality makes her a writer of great contemporary interest. In this volume she writes of the men and women who live and work on the Queensland coast, in the steaming rain forests, in the cane fields and in the mines. They are people who never dreamed they would be an author's hero or heroine, yet they are; Devanny understood the significance of the many humble lives and the part they played in the overall scheme of our national existence and has here drawn wonderful character studies and 'yarns'.
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In 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.
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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.
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On December 26, 1985, at a secluded cabin in upstate New York, Whitley Strieber went skiing with his wife and son, ate Christmas dinner leftovers, and went to bed early. Six hours later, he found himself suddenly awake - and changed forever. Thus begins the most astonishing true-life odyssey ever recorded - one man's riveting account of his extraordinary experiences with visitors from"elsewhere". How they found him, where they took him, what they did to him and why. Believe it. Or not. Described as a fascinating, terrifying and life-altering experience. Cover art by Ted Jacobs.
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In 1954 the empty spaces of Northern Australia represented a challenge. The need to develop this region had been expressed but the possibilities received new emphasis by the discovery of uranium and oil. In a world threatened by shortages of basic materials and food the potential production in mining, cattle agricultural crops and tropical fruits from Australia's North was a matter that demanded careful attention. This books presents an overall picture of the area at that time - its physical characteristics, the beef cattle industry, the mineral and agricultural opportunities and its transport needs while considering the political and administrative background and the social problems which inevitably arose from the occupation of vast territories by a small white population in tropical conditions and finally, the necessity of attracting men and money for developmental projects. The papers printed in this volume were delivered by acknowledged experts to the 1954 Summer School of the Australian Institute of Political Science.
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His voice sounds hauntingly like his father's and the physical resemblance is equally chilling. But Julian Lennon went on to forge his own independence. He was born just as the Beatles first No. 1 hit exploded onto the charts but it was not until his father's death in 1980 that Julian began to inherit the legacy of John Lennon. Was he fated to be - in all things - just like his Dad? He was excluded from his father's will, however there was a trust of £100,000 established to be shared between Julian and his half-brother Sean. But he had to fight even to get that, suing his father's estate successfully in 1996. Dad could talk about peace and love out loud to the world but he could never show it to the people who supposedly meant the most to him: his wife and son. How can you talk about peace and love and have a family in bits and pieces - no communication, adultery, divorce? You can't do it, not if you're being true and honest with yourself. With black and white photographs.
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Brimming Billabongs: Written as the collaborative life history of an actual Uwadja man, ‘Marmel’. In all fairness, it must be stated that Marmel was entirely a fictional construct, although it is possible he was based on a real person from Harney's time living with the indigenous people. The Shady Tree: The tale of the final eighteen months of Harney's life, lovingly put together by Douglas Lockwood from his friend's last manuscripts. Both books reflect Bill Harney's affection and respect for the people of Australia.
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The first successful north-south automobile crossing of Australia took place in 1908 - a carefully organised and expensive venture. Over the next two decades there were not many other successful crossings. Such transcontinental crossings were made by following the Overland Telegraph Line or the railways extending north from Port Augusta and south from Darwin. In 1929, after four years of severe drought, two cars left separately for Darwin via the bush track which was the 'main road' across the continent - a large Vauxhall 23/60 carrying a married couple in their early thirties and six weeks alter, an Austin Seven driven by a lone eighteen-year-old Englishman. The Vauxhall made Darwin safely; the Austin struggled on to Daly Waters and reached there, unable to continue, on the day the Vauxhall (on its return journey south) arrived. The exhausted Penryn Goldman abandoned 'Baby' and travelled back with the Wrights in 'Vauxie'. Frank Wright kept a daily diary and both he and his wife were keen photographers. Penryn Goldman later published a book of his Australian adventures. Winty Calder, Frank and Win Wright's daughter has merged both of these accounts and many photographs to give graphic insights into the pre-World War II conditions of inland Australia to present a part of history when Australian tourism was in its infancy. With black and white photographs.
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