Author : Robyn Davidson
Publisher : Addison Wesley Publishing Company
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 23,20 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Travel
ISBN :
Presents the story of an Australian woman who set off to cross the outback, accompanied only by 4 camels and a dog. Photo CD contains photographs and narration. Apple CD contains an interactive program for the user to join the trip.
Author : Jane Bingham
Publisher : Heinemann-Raintree Library
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 23,51 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781410928139
Wat are the hundreds of dreaming tracks in the desert? What happens at a corroboree? What would you do with a witchetty grub? Many Australian Aboriginal people live in the enormous region called the Central Desert in Australia. There are a lot of weird and wonderful things in the desert, including giant blood-red rocks, wallabies, carpet snakes, and honey ants. Book jacket.
Author : Mary Groves
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 34,5 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1459622626
An outback tale of a woman who spent the prime of her life in the Northern Territory, often struggling to put a meal on the table, told in simple, straightforward language, the narrative zipping along at a lively pace, with one cracking yarn after another....
Author : Lisa Jensen
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 10,35 MB
Release : 2011-10-28
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 3656040915
Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,7, University of Hannover (Philosophische Fakultät), course: Academic Writing and Research, language: English, abstract: The Australian outback is a reckless place to live in. It does not compromise but has to be taken the way it is: rugged, hot and dry. Still, there are people who chose to rather come to terms with all the difficulties of living in such a rough place, than moving to the comfort of the city. This paper aims to show how some of these difficulties, being education problems, insufficient healthcare and loneliness, are overcome, and why there are people who still prefer this lifestyle over the easier way of living in the city.
Author : Rachael Johns
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,44 MB
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1743644701
Faith and Monty are both looking for love...in the wrong direction. Faith Forrester is at a crossroads. Single, thirty and living on a farm in a small Western Australian town, she's sick of being treated like a servant by her brother and father. Ten years ago, her mother died of breast cancer, and Faith has been treading water ever since. She wants to get her hands dirty on the family farm. She wants to prove to herself that she's done something worthwhile with her life. And she wants to find a man... For as long as he can remember, Daniel 'Monty' Montgomery has been Faith's best friend. When he was ten, his parents sold the family property in Merindah and moved to Perth to be closer to support services for his autistic brother, and ever since, Monty's dreamed of having his own place. So for the last ten years, he's been back on the land, working odd jobs and saving every dollar to put toward his dream. And now he finally has it. But there's still something missing... So when Faith embarks on a mission to raise money for a charity close to her heart – Dogs for Autism – and Monty's dream property comes on the market, things seem like they are falling into place for them both. Until a drunken night out ends with them sleeping together. Suddenly, the best friends are both facing a new set of challenges... Monty and Faith are both ready to find a life partner and settle down, but have they both been looking in all the wrong places?
Author : Dave Ives
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 35,36 MB
Release : 2015-05-21
Category : Australia
ISBN : 9781511985246
What role did the remote satellite tracking station near Woomera South Australia play during the First Gulf War? What was it like when Aussies and Yanks lived and worked together while the Joint Defense Facility Nurrungar (JDFN) - now closed - was in operation? These questions are answered in Dave Ives' book, "Yanks in the Outback." Dave's story - although fiction - is based on his experience as a young US Air Force lieutenant stationed at the JDFN from February 1990 until May 1991. Written in diary format, Dave takes us with him on his personal journey "Down Under" ... how he deals with living in the remote outback, how he struggles at first with the Aussie accent, how he handles challenges as the sole military satellite systems engineer on site. The role of the JDFN during the First Gulf War is well documented in the public literature. The fact that operators from the JDFN were detecting and reporting SCUD missile launches in the Middle East war zone is no secret. But, Dave's story gives us a unique perspective - an inside, emotional and personal look at life at the JDFN before, during and just after the war. And, he presents a powerful case challenging the official story about the role the JDFN played in the SCUD missile launch that hit the barrack housing US soldiers in Saudi Arabia on 26 February 1991.
Author : Bill King
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 10,78 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1459628233
The life of the legendary pioneer of outback travel - the man who opened up Australia to adventure travel. A modern - day explorer who took everyday Australians along for the ride.Bill King is the pioneer who put the Australian outback on the map for both local and international tourists. Through an enterprise founded on hope and grit - now operating as AAT Kings - he opened up a completely new branch of Australian tourism. Thousands of Australians have experienced the adventure of a lifetime in Bill's capable hands, often walking in the footsteps of explorers such as Burke and Wills, Leichhardt, Sturt and Stuart.Eccentric drivers, mad passengers and sticky situations abound against the backdrop of the glorious Australian outback. Bill and his tour groups sometimes got lost, bogged or stranded - sometimes even scared out of their wits - but there was always a fierce determination to bring the show back home. Bill never lost a passenger or brought one to harm, though by heck they did sometimes try his monumental patience.
Author : Tom Cole
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 32,28 MB
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1743099916
The bestselling story of a real-life Crocodile Dundee. the bestselling story of a real-life Crocodile Dundee. In this remarkable memoir, tom Cole tells the stories of his life in the outback during the 1920s and 1930s. With great humour and drama, he recounts his adventures as a drover and stockman in the toughest country in Australia and later on as a buffalo shooter and crocodile hunter in the Northern territory before the war. First published in 1988 and having sold over 100 000 copies, Hell West and Crooked is perfect for anyone who enjoys a classic outback yarn. 'A real-life story of the pioneering days of the top End that out-adventures anything fiction writers could hope to produce.' - tHE WESt AUStRALIAN 'tom Cole is a living legend, a real-life Crocodile Dundee. His stories paint a vivid picture of wild and exciting times in the Australian outback.' - MELBOURNE SUNDAY EXPRESS 'A story of the outback and cattlemen and women, stripped of glamour, that will become an Australian classic to rub covers with authors like Ion Idriess.' - GOLD COASt BULLEtIN
Author : Rebecca Hogue Wojahn
Publisher : Lerner Publications
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 19,85 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0822574993
Describes food chains in the tundra, beginning with carnivores, such as a falcon or a polar bear, and ending with decomposers.
Author : Lisa Jensen
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 30,85 MB
Release : 2011-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3656041202
Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,7, University of Hannover (Philosophische Fakultät), course: Academic Writing and Research, language: English, abstract: The Australian outback is a reckless place to live in. It does not compromise but has to be taken the way it is: rugged, hot and dry. Still, there are people who chose to rather come to terms with all the difficulties of living in such a rough place, than moving to the comfort of the city. This paper aims to show how some of these difficulties, being education problems, insufficient healthcare and loneliness, are overcome, and why there are people who still prefer this lifestyle over the easier way of living in the city.
