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Baby Benjamin's impressions
By Susan Oxenham. 2015
Teen stages: how to guide their journey to adulthood
By Ken Mellor, Elizabeth Mellor. 2004
Shock, horror - teenagers actually want to be controlled and have "involved" parents! What parents need to know about the…
six different stages of development - and why each stage requires different responses.Bypass: the story of a road
By Michael McGirr. 2007
Bypass: the story of a road, a quirky biography of Australia's main street, the Hume Highway. The heart of Bypass…
is a bike ride that Michael, not the fittest man on the road, made from Sydney to Melbourne with the ever-patient Jenny, now his wife and more patient than ever. By the end of the book, they were expecting their first child.Core of my heart, my country: women's sense of place and the land in Australia and Canada, 1828-1950
By Maggie MacKellar. 2004
When Georgiana Molloy gave birth on the beach at Augusta in 1830 with boxes of her possessions lying where they'd…
landed, she was one of the many women who literally had to remake their homes out of the broken bones of their past. In this passionate book Maggie MacKellar tells the stories of women on the frontier in Canada and Australia who ventured out in bonnets and petticoats to collect seeds, who abandoned sidesaddles to ride in the mountains, who risked their reputations to climb mountains - and beyond this it tells of the risky business of women who put their lives on the page to claim the importance of their experience. Core of My Heart, My Country weaves together experience and insight from women who lived and wrote in different landscapes, in different climates and in different eras. It is a provocative and remarkable encounter with buried stories and persistent myths.Au revoir: running away from home at fifty
By Mary Moody. 2001
Living the good life in the Blue Mountains in New South Wales with her husband, four grown-up children and four…
(and counting) grandchildren, Mary Moody's life was full. At fifty, she had built a satisfying career as a writer and television presenter which allowed her time to look after her family, house and garden. The only thing missing was time for herself, a chance to reflect on life and its meaning. Like many women of her generation, caught up with the commitments of work and family, Mary had never had a moment alone - so she decided to say au revoir. She ran away to live on her own for six glorious months in the rural paradise of southwest France.Arabesques: a tale of double lives
By Robert Dessaix. 2009
One Sunday afternoon in a secluded valley in Normandy, France, Robert Dessaix chanced upon the castle where the famous French…
writer Andre Gide spent his childhood. Recalling the excitement Robert felt when he first read Gide as a teenager, he set off to recapture what it was that once drew him so strongly to this enigmatic figure.On a magic carpet ride from Lisbon to the edge of the Sahara, from Paris to the south of France and Algiers, Robert takes us to the places where the Nobel Prize-winning author, in ways still scandalous to modern sensibilities, lived out his unconventional ideas about love, marriage, sexuality and religion. Features meditations and conversations with fellow-travellers on such diverse subjects as why we travel, growing old, illicit passions, and the essence of Protestantism.Among the islands: adventures in the Pacific (Adventures #3)
By Tim F Flannery. 2011
Twenty-five years ago, a young curator of mammals from the Australian Museum in Sydney set out to research the fauna…
of the Pacific Islands. Starting with a survey of one of the most inaccessible islands in Melanesia - Woodlark, in the Trobriands Group - that young scientist found himself ghost-whispering, snake wrestling, Quadoi hunting and plunged waist-deep into a sludge of maggot-infested faeces in search of a small bat that turned out not to be earth-shatteringly interesting. With accounts of discovering, naming and sometimes eating new mammal species; being thwarted or aided by local customs; and historic scientific expeditions, Tim Flannery takes us on an enthralling journey through some of the most diverse and spectacular environments on earth.The barefoot bushwalker: a remarkable story of adventure, courage and romance
By Dorothy Butler. 1991
The author has climbed, walked and cycled all over the world and has many "firsts" to her name, especially in…
Australia and New Zealand where she has done much of her mountaineering over the past 70 years. Her story is filled with thrills, romance and challenges as she recalls her childhood, career, marriage and adventures.The dog fence: a journey across the heart of Australia
By James Woodford. 2003
At 5400 kilometres, the Dog Fence is one of the longest man-made structures on Earth. It slices across Australia’s desert…
heart, dividing the continent to keep dingoes away from livestock. James Woodford embarks on a journey to follow its length, travelling some of the loneliest and harshest country in the world. He begins on a clifftop overlooking the Great Australian Bight and ends in the foothills of Queensland’s Bunya Mountains. He meets many of the remarkable people who maintain this amazing barrier as he passes through rocket ranges, nuclear test areas, sacred sites and places where nineteenth-century explorers perished. The Dog Fence is an account of a most unusual journey over sand, gibber plains and salt lakes. It is about the hazards of travel, the lessons of history and the passion and resilience of the men and women on the land.Station life in Australia: pioneers and pastoralists
By Peter Taylor. 1998
Describes the life and work of the European pioneers who, with no local advice and usually no experience of agriculture,…
started Australia's pastoral industry - an industry that was to become the economic base of Australian life.Journey into Australia
By Peter Cole-Adams. 1989
The author set off on a 7-month, 38,500-kilometre journey in search of the 'other' Australia, the Australia of country towns…
and fishing ports, of isolated rural communities and remote mining settlements.A fortunate life
By A. B Facey. 1985
Bert Facey saw himself as an ordinary man, but his remarkable story reveals a winner against impossible odds, who lived…
with simple honesty, compassion and courage. Bert's childhood ended at the age of eight years of age, when the parentless boy was sent to work on the rough West Australian frontier. As an adult, he struggled as an itinerant rural worker, survived the gore of Gallipoli, the loss of his farm during the Depression, the death of his son in world War II and that of his beloved wife after sixty devoted years - yet felt that his life was fortunate.The Age good food guide 2005
By Sally Lewis. 2004
This year, The Age Good Food Guide celebrates a quarter of a century of great eating in Victoria and in…
many ways, the three major awards in 2005 embody the past, present and future of dining in this state.Slow river: a journey down the Murray
By Steve Strevens. 2006
Steve Strevens has lived on the Murray for almost 40 years. During that time he has fished and swum in…
its waters, climbed and swung from its trees, collected firewood from its forests, kicked a footy along the flats nearby, and made some of his most important decisions sitting on its banks. He even spread his father's ashes on its waters. Slow River is his ode to the Murray and an exploration of why and how it is more than just a river. Bumping along in his ute and steering his old tinnie, Steve explores the full length of the Murray from its source in a small swampy puddle hidden in a clump of tea trees in the mountains to where it meets the sea. This is a rich and generous portrait of the river, its many moods and the people and communities who depend upon it for their sanity and survival.A long walk in the Australian bush
By William J Lines. 1998
The author and his American companion undertook a 650-kilometre walk through the jarrah and karri forests of Western Australia. This…
is a chronicle of that hike, exploring the human settlement and of the beliefs of science, economics and conservation on the natural world.Walk a crooked mile: a father's journey in the footsteps of his son
By Greg Jones. 2000
Gold Medallist, world champion and world record holder : Lachlan Jones, OAM, is an exceptional athlete. What makes his success…
even more remarkable is that he has limited vision and cerebral palsy. 'Walk a crooked mile' is the story of Lachlan's rise to the top of international wheelchair racing, told from his father's perspective. It is a journey that begins with the annual Rip to River fun run on Victoria's south coast - when a determined Lachlan walked his first crooked mile in the company of his father. The journey continues through bouts of illness, financial obstacles, and physical and social barriers until its culmination in Gold at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympics.How to walk a puma: my (mis)adventures in South America
By Peter Allison. 2012
Not content with regular encounters with dangerous animals on one continent, Peter Allison decided to get up close and personal…
with some seriously scary animals on another. Unlike in Africa, where all Peter's experiences had been safari based, he planned to vary things up in South America, getting involved with conservation projects as well as seeking out 'the wildest and rarest wildlife experiences on offer'.From learning to walk - or rather be bitten and dragged along at speed by - a puma in Bolivia, to searching for elusive jaguars in Brazil, finding love in Patagonia, and hunting naked with the remote Huaorani people in Ecuador, How to Walk a Puma is Peter's fascinating and often hilarious account of his adventures and misadventures in South America.Don't look behind you but...: tales from an African safari guide
By Peter Allison. 2009
It shouldn't be fun to be chased by an animal that outweighs you by a factor of seventy, but Peter…
Allison gets an odd thrill every time an elephant charges his beaten-up jeep or a peckish crocodile looks at him sideways. And now our favourite safari leader is back with more crazy, incredible, endearing and laugh-out-loud funny tales from his time guiding unsuspecting tourists through the African bush. By now you'd think he'd know his way around. You'd be wrong. From avoiding territorial hippos and half-starved lions to dodging landmines and getting lost on the unforgiving savanna, Peter Allison has had his fair share of close calls. Yet, despite a growing suspicion that it is trying very hard to kill him, he just can't shake his love of this remarkable land, its animals and its people.Whatever you do, don't run: my adventures as a Botswana safari guide
By Peter Allison. 2007
Peter Allison was only nineteen when he left Australia for Africa, thinking he might travel around and see a bit…
of the country before going home to a 'proper job'. But Africa worked its magic, and Peter ended up falling, quickly and completely, in love with the country and its wildlife. Landing in a game reserve in the wildlife-rich Okavango Delta, he became a safari guide and, some twelve years later, his short holiday in Africa isn't over yet. Whatever You Do, Don't Run is his guide's-eye view of living in the bush, confronting the world's fiercest animals and, most challenging of all, managing herds of gaping tourists. Like the young woman who rejected the recommended safari-friendly khaki to wear a more 'fashionable' hot pink ensemble, or the Japanese tourist who requested a repeat performance of Allison's being charged by a lion so he could videotape it, there's not much in the African bush that Peter hasn't seen, photographed or been chased by.Neither here nor there: travels in Europe
By Bill Bryson. 1992
A breezy and hilariously funny account of the author's travels by train through Europe. Retracing his steps as a student…
twenty years ago, the author travels from Hammerfest in the far North to Istanbul in Turkey.