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By Eleanor Hogan. 2012
Alice Springs, Alice, The Alice, Mparntwe is the most talked about but least familiar place in Australia. It is a…
town of extremes and contradictions: searingly hot and bitterly cold, thousands of miles from anywhere, the heart of black Australia and the headquarters of the controversial NT Intervention. It's seen as a place where blokes are blokes, yet the town has a high lesbian population. It is the gateway to the red centre, but relatively few Australians have been there. Its striking landscape and modern facilities attract those looking for a desert change, yet it is a town where frontier conflicts still hold sway. Eleanor Hogan's Alice Springs reveals the texture of everyday life in this town through the passage of the local seasons.By Thor Heyerdahl. 1989
Heyerdahl returns to Easter Island to try to unravel the mystery of the haunting statues that stud the ancient island…
and to prove that early man travelled further and faster than previously expected.By Sonia Harford. 2006
Sonia Harford hooked one of the biggest assignments of her journalistic career when she covered Milosevic's war crimes trial in…
The Hague. Like many other Australians who move overseas to live and work, Harford was on the journey of her life. Leaving Paradise is in part the story of Harford's five-year expatriate adventure in Amsterdam and Rome. It also investigates the experiences of a host of other Australians including best-selling author Peter Carey, East Timor human rights campaigner Katrina Langford and lawyer and deputy registrar at The Hague International Criminal Tribunal, John Hocking. Frank and intimate interviews reveal why they - like almost one million of their compatriots - have uprooted their lives, families and careers to join the global community. In this entertaining and thoughtful personal investigation, Harford explores the boom in Australian expatriatism - the ideals, reality and dislocation of being an Australian living abroad - and the often heart-wrenching decision to return home.By Kerryn Goldsworthy. 2011
A painting, a frog cake, a landmark, a statue, a haunting newspaper photograph, a bucket of peaches, pink shorts in…
parliament, concert tickets, tourist maps. Kerryn Goldsworthy's Adelaide is a museum of sorts, a personal guide to the city through a collection of iconic objects.By Aedeen Cremin. 2000
Provides an account of the way in which Australians lived at the time of Federation and includes special information on…
topics such as : rural life in Australia; life in the cities; the lifestyle of the Chinese and other minority groups; and immigrants.By Rob Cook, Carl Curtain. 2013
When third generation Northern Territory cattleman Rob Cook set out on a routine mustering job in a chopper it was…
a day in the outback like any other, but when the chopper suddenly fell out of the sky, smashing into the ground, it was the day that changed everything. This one-time professional bull-rider had been in scrapes before - he had miraculously walked away from a previous crash in his beloved Gyro, but this time it was different. This time there was no walking away. Seven hours later he was rescued from the wreck on one of Australia's most remote cattle stations, Suplejack Downs Station, and his journey back to life, his young family and the way of life he loved had only just begun. When the Dust Settles is the extraordinary story of cattleman Rob Cook's journey back to life from a catastrophic helicopter accident that left him paralysed - it is also the story of Suplejack Downs Station and one of Australia's most remarkable and resilient bush dynasties.By Jill Conway. 1989
Jill Ker Conway grew up on a sheep station in Western New South Wales. When her brothers were away at…
boarding-school she became her father's station hand until drought destroyed her parent's dream and she was forced into a life of difficulty in Sydney, and ultimately on to America for her university education. This is an account of her long journey to adulthood, and the adventures of mind, body and spirit which allow her to establish an identity independent of her upbringing.By Dale Spender, Patricia Clarke. 1992
By Hilary Burden. 2012
On the outside, Hilary Burden was living a glamorous life - she was a busy, high-flying, globe-trotting magazine journalist based…
in London, who'd think nothing of flying to New York for a weekend, interviewing movie stars in luxury hotels or jetting off to Italy on assignment to hunt truffles with Curtis Stone. But on the inside, something was missing in her life and she didn't know quite what it was. Deciding that she wanted to make her own life, Hilary returned to Tasmania. She bought a ramshackle old house - The Nuns' House - with a sprawling, neglected garden, and gave herself the time and space to begin again. There was no particular kind of plan, but things just somehow worked. Now, seven summers later, she has a home, a garden, two alpacas (named Jack and Kerouac), two chooks (called Marilyn and Monroe), a purpose and a passion.By Geoffrey Blainey. 2003
Master storyteller Geoffrey Blainey takes the reader on another absorbing journey - a guided tour of a vanished Australia. Covering…
the years from the first gold rush to World War I. Blainey paints a fascinating picture of how our forebears lived - in the outback, in towns and cities, at sea and on land. He looks at all aspects of daily life, from billycans to brass bands, from ice-making to etiquette, from pipes to pubs.By Susan Swaney. 1993
When the author set up a veterinary practice in Western Victoria, there was resistance because she was a woman and…
there was the rugged climate to get used to. This is a diary of twelve months in the author's life as a vet, farmer and mother.By Peter Rees, Tim Fischer. 2002
Coming from every corner of Australia, this collection of stories shows the never-say-die spirit of those who live in regional…
Australia; the people and communities who see opportunity and the chance for renewal where others see dust. The authors show that the 'have a go' spirit of the bush means adapting to the challenges of the new century with canny thinking, hard work and a refusal to give up.By Dennis McIntosh. 2008
Dennis McIntosh was always determined not to get stuck in a factory like his father, but it's only once he…
takes a job as a roustabout that he discovers what he really wants to be: a shearer. Travelling from station to station, he revels in the smell and feel of the sheds, and the freedom of being answerable to no man except his mates. And it's a thrilling time to be in this legendary occupation. There's a fight on: the union is defending its workers against scab labourers' use of the wide comb. But while shearing's a fine life for a nineteen-year-old, it's a hard one for a man. As the added weight of adulthood settles on Dennis's shoulders, the sheds take their unforgiving toll. Beaten by a Blow shows us the reality behind the romance of the shearer. Most of all, it tells the story of a boy dull of hope crashing headlong into life - into work, into drink, into responsibilities he isn't ready for, which come closer to breaking his back than shearing ever did.By Maggie MacKellar. 2014
After Maggie Mackellar’s acclaimed When It Rains, her second memoir traces with her characteristic candour and perception her move to…
Tasmania, for love, and the struggles and joys of settling there. In 2011 Maggie Mackellar moved from her family’s farm in Central West New South Wales to the east coast of Tasmania with her children and assorted menagerie to live with a farmer. ’In the book she explores learning to love again after living through grief, and the complexities of doing this in a community with which she is unfamiliar, with two young children. She reflects on love after grief, juggling being a mother and negotiating a burgeoning relationship, the rhythms of country life, displacement and the writing life. This is a book for anyone who has imagined taking a risk, for anyone who has moved to a new place and struggled with feelings of homesickness and displacement. It is a story about making a life in a remarkable setting - the east coast of Tasmania, on a sheep farm in a stone house built by convicts in 1828.By Maggie MacKellar. 2010
'My body, suddenly, carries two stories of loss... One is easy for people to recognise. My mother died of cancer.…
I watched her age twenty-five years in eight weeks... My other story marks me as different. It is more silent and more savage, it is not pure and no one knows how to approach it. Somewhere I lost my husband.' When Maggie's vibrant young husband, father to a five-year-old daughter and an unborn son, dies tragically, Maggie is left widowed and due to give birth three months later to their second child. Then her beloved mother, backbone of the family, mother to three children, grandmother to two, dies suddenly of aggressive cancer. In two short years, Maggie's life has shattered. After a year, she gives up trying to juggle single motherhood and the demands of an academic career and returns with her children to the family farm in central western New South Wales to take stock and catch a breath. The farm becomes a redemptive, healing place for Maggie and her children as they battle the heat and drought that only the Australian landscape can offer. She throws herself into the horses, sheep, ducks and chickens and slowly, finally, realises she has found a new shape for herself.By Deb Hunt. 2014
The true story of an unlikely romance set in the Australian outback. The year before she turned fifty, Deb Hunt…
stopped dating. She was done with love and sick of chasing men who didn't return her affections. When her most recent flame announced he was marrying someone else, Deb knew it was time to make a change. She landed a job as a marketing assistant with the Royal Flying Doctor Service and left London for the sunshine of Sydney on a mission to find happiness without a mate. But then on a trip to the red-dust town of Broken Hill, she encountered a man unlike any other. A legend of the RFDS, he was practical, steady, financially responsible and conservative - everything Deb was not. He wanted a relationship. She wanted to flee. Funny, warm, and beautifully told, this is the story of what happens when you ditch your fantasies of romance and discover the truth about love.By Sara Henderson. 1994
In this sequel to "From strength to strength", Sara Henderson brings us up to date on her life on Bullo…
since the end of 1991. After Sara won Bulletin/Qantas Business Woman of the year in 1991, life continued to deal its heavy blows. Letters began to arrive from all over Australia showing care and concern. In these letters Sara found the strength and inspiration to carry on.By Sara Henderson. 1993
After the death of her husband, Sara Henderson took up the challenge of rebuilding their floundering property with successful results.…
In 1991 Sara was named Bulletin/Qantas Business Woman of the Year. Now at the age of 55, Sara's life is beginning all over again.By Frances Hackett. 1990
Written with a child's eye-view of the past, larger than life, mystified, unclouded. It is also a picture of a…
small country town in northern N.S.W., trapped in its isolation and its poverty.By James Woodford. 2008
It took James Woodford a while to realise that the greasy pole of big-city ambition was not for him. To…
rediscover the environmentalist he'd aspired to be when he was young, and to get his family out of the city. But eventually they made it: to the wildly beautiful south coast of New South Wales and a sustainable, self-sufficient, solar-powered lifestyle on 120 acres. No house? They'd build one. Land grazed down and eroding into the lake? Fix it up with some love and hard work...coax it to yield home-grown vegies...plant orchards, raise chooks...a humungous worm farm... How hard could it be? Real Dirt is the true story of a sea-change, the life that led there - and what you have to go through to get where you want to be.