 | ANZAC Day on Mount Everest
Peter Maiden
Australian Army Alpine Expedition Triumphs on Mount Everest.
When a catastrophic avalanche killed three of their party in 2001 the Australian Army Alpine expedition’s plan to conquer Everest teetered on the very brink of disaster. As it became locked in a desperate life and death battle with the implacable mountain, the AAA team was unaware that back home an Army inquiry was already being established to investigate the expedition’s conduct.
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 | Diving Off the Ironing Board
Di McCauley
Diving Off the Ironing Board is the political memoirs of politician Di McCauley. Di represented Callide and served with the governments of Sir Joh Bjelke Petersen, Mike Ahern, Russell Cooper and Rob Borbidge. Di is well aware of widespread cynicism about politicians and these memoirs help to lift the veil on a politician's punishing daily schedule and show the challenges that confront especially a female minister. This is no high-flying feminist taking on the men at their own game and leaving them neutered in her wake... this is a country woman with a short temper and a long memory! | $25.95 |
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 | Master Mariner
David Jones and Peter Nunan
David Jones and Peter Nunan have written about one of the many quiet contributors to our society – heroes, really – who have lived amongst us without widespread recognition. Their subject is Captain Harold Chesterman, and their book follows this remarkable man's professional association with the sea from when he was one of the few Australian lads enrolled in a British maritime training college, through his career as a young naval officer commanding ships that fought in the Battle of the Atlantic in the Second World War, to when he captained a supply ship that serviced lighthouses and beacons along the Queensland coast. An inspiring story of a true master mariner. | $35.95 |
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 | No Holds Barred
Murray Johnson
Hughie Williams is something of a sacred icon in Queensland trade union politics. This book is his life story. It is not a rags to riches story, but the story of a man who dragged himself out of grinding poverty and made it to the top of the trade union movement, always speaking up for what he believed in. It is a story of determination and never giving up. | $25.95 |
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 | Red Dust Rising
Marion Houldsworth
This is the inspiring story of a northern cattleman who built up the Urapunga cattle station from nothing. From the 1950s to the 1990s, he lived rough and worked hard. He worked closely with the tribal Aborigines, made Urapunga a dry station, coped with the many crocodiles in the Roper River, fought against cattle diseases, hunted buffalo, built himself a homestead...and survived. | $33.95 |
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 | Sister Elizabeth Kenny
Wade Alexander
Sister Kenny (1880 - 1952) struggled her whole life to win acceptance from conservative medicos for her unique treatment for polio. In 1951 she shared the title of Most Influential Woman in America with the President's wife, Eleanor Roosevelt. An Australian heroine, she saved thousands from crippling paralysis. | $29.95 |
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 | Ten Thousand Campfires
Rex Ellis
Ten Thousand Campfires is a smorgasbord of Rex Ellis's bush humour and his experience leading safaris in the Outback over a period of more years than he cares to remember. But he also gives hilarious accounts of the down-to-earth tourist safaris that he led in Europe, Africa and India. | $29.95 |
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 | That Gallant Gentleman
Kenneth R. Dutton
Australia's past is filled with extraordinary people. Charles George Gray, for example. As a young Scots officer in the British army, he saw action in India, Spain, and Portugal, and was actually present at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. He subsequently came to Australia where he made a significant mark. His whole story is remarkable, but it is the hand-written memoir of his army years that stands out – all carefully transcribed and presented here by author Kenneth R. Dutton. Together with Dutton's explanatory chapters and notes, and diary entries by Gray, it gives you a first-hand glimpse of a special man...and of a world now gone. | $36.95 |
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 | The Bohemian Bourgeois
David Myers
Intimate short stories about growing up in Sydney from the 1940s to the 1970s. The hilarious memoirs of a larrikin Casanova with foot in mouth disease. | $25.95 |
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 | The Sky Racers
Peter Maiden
In 1919 the world was still suffering from the enormous losses due to the Great War. Yet that same conflict had brought forth men and machines capable of fulfilling the age-old dream of manned flight. And this was the year of one of the first great air races -- from England to Australia. Peter Maiden, backed by his intensive research, tells the story of those who tried, those who lost, and those who won. | $35.95 |
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 | Walk a Mile in My Shoes
Tom Collins
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The real-life story of a boots-and-all pioneer who did it tough in the early days in areas from Toowoomba to Rockhampton. Brigalow scrub cleaner, sideshow boxer, travelling beauty salon manager, pub owner in Westwood, and thoroughbred race-horse breeder are only some of this man's lifetime occupations. | $28.95 |
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