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Living legends: true tales of extraordinary old-timers
By Sandy Thorne. 2014
Meet fifteen remarkable Australian (and one Kiwi!) jacks and jills of all trades with a wealth of experiences from the…
good old days to modern times. Hailing from all walks of life, they share their memories with renowned yarn spinner Sandy Thorne in a collection of stories full of wisdom and wit. There's Danny, the champion jockey who refuses to ever truly hang up the saddle; 'Dusty', the WW II rear gunner who survived thirty raids over Germany; and Dot, the seemingly dainty 97-year-old who was once a bullocky's offsider. Then there's Bob, who's been a truckie, fighter, croc-wrestler and lotto winner; Doris, the once hard-toiling dairy farmer who's as chirpy as a willy-wagtail; and Roy, the Vietnam vet turned world-class waterskier. Between them, the characters in this book have survived the Depression, seen world wars come and go and witnessed monumental changes in everyday life. There's comedy and courage in their adventures, as well as tales of triumph over adversity. Through their stories, Sandy finds the elements that make up the classic Australian character: a no-nonsense, never-give-up approach that means these people are still firing on all cylinders in their eighties and nineties, and truly embody what it means to be a living legend.How to kiss a crocodile: and other snappy stories (Max Walker's How To ...)
By Max Walker. 2007
Max Walker, famous Australian sportsman, broadcaster and co-host of Channel 9's "Wide World of Sports"has a philosophy of looking for…
what he recalls the lighter, richer side of life. This outlook is reflected in these humorous anecdotes.King: the life and comedy of Graham Kennedy
By Graeme Blundell. 2003
Graham Kennedy, the King of Comedy, reigned over Australian television for forty years as talk-show host, game-show presenter and iconoclastic…
jester. He shared the microphone with Nicky Whitta on Melbourne’s favourite radio program, Nicky and Graham, in the 1950s, then went on to become the shining light of Australian TV, hosting In Melbourne Tonight, Blankety Blanks and Coast to Coast. Looking for a new challenge, Graham Kennedy moved into films and starred in Don’s Party and The Club among others. Graeme Blundell traces the career of the star from working-class Melbourne, who tilted Australia’s television to an unforgettable angle with his disrespectful buffoonery, then mysteriously disappeared into the Southern Highlands of New South Wales.The gift of the gab
By Barry Dickins. 1981
The killer koala
By Kenneth Cook, Jacqueline Kent. 1986
In "the killer koala" the author has gathered a selection of hilarious stories culled from his various experiences while travelling…
all over Australia, from the red deserts, to the jungles, to remote parts of the Great Barrier Reef.My father and other animals: how I took on the family farm
By Sam Vincent. 2022
A moving and hilarious fish-out-of-water memoir of a millennial leaving his inner-city life to take over the family farm. Sam…
Vincent is a twenty-something writer in the inner suburbs, scrabbling to make ends meet, when he gets a call from his mother: his father has stuck his hand in a woodchipper, but 'not to worry -- it wasn't like that scene in Fargo or anything'. When Sam returns to the family farm to help out, his life takes a new and unexpected direction. Whether castrating a calf or buying a bull -- or knocking in a hundred fence posts by hand when his dad hides the post-driver -- Sam's farming apprenticeship is an education in grit and shit. But there are victories, too: nurturing a fig orchard to bloom; learning to read the land; joining forces with Indigenous elders to protect a special site. Slowly, Sam finds himself thinking differently about the farm, about his father and about his relationship with both. By turns affecting, hilarious and utterly surprising, this memoir melds humour and fierce honesty in an unsentimental love letter. It's about belonging, humility and regeneration -- of land, family and culture. What passes from father to son on this unruly patch of earth is more than a livelihood; it is a legacy.The obsessive traveller: or, why I don't steal towels from great hotels any more
By David Dale. 1991
This is a collection of traveller's tales told with the author's unique curiosity, humour and insight. It covers why men…
read maps and women ask the way, how to stop a taxi driver from talking to you, how to souvenir from great hotels and much more.ADHD for dummies (For Dummies)
By Jeff Strong. 2004
Need to know more about AD/HD? Whether you're a concerned parent or an adult with AD/HD, this friendly, easy-to-understand guide…
helps you recognize the symptoms, weigh your treatment options, and emphasize the positives of AD/HD. You get an overview of a variety of therapies, as well as help finding an AD/HD professional and keeping your life organized.Empire, war, tennis and me
By Peter Charles Doherty. 2022
For those who look, and think deeply, new connections emerge. Peter Doherty, one of the world's foremost authorities on immunology,…
recipient of the Nobel Prize for medicine, and an active and respected commentator on public health, reflects in this book on empire, war and tennis. Doherty identifies the origins of modern tennis within its imperial context, relating seemingly unlikely connections between the sport, its players and national militaries. He traces the fate of tennis-and its players-as a nascent force for internationalism and cultural tolerance within the context of World War II. And he personalises this account through an unsentimental but revealing depiction of his tennis-loving Queenslander uncles, at war and in captivity in the Pacific. As Doherty shows, tennis and war have threaded their way through the lives of many people since the nineteenth century, in a way intriguingly unique to this sport. This is part of Peter's story. And, as we come to realise, it is also part of the story of our world.