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Call of the Outback

Author : Marianne van Velzen

Publisher : Allen & Unwin

Page : 325 pages

File Size : 42,80 MB

Release : 2016-01-27

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1952533023

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Long before Robyn Davidson wrote Tracks, the extraordinary Ernestine Hill was renowned for her intrepid travels across Australia's vast outback. After the birth of her illegitimate son, Ernestine Hill abandoned her comfortable urban life as a journalist for a nomadic one, writing about this country's vast interior and bringing the outback into the popular imagination of Australians. Throughout the 1930s Ernestine's hugely popular stories about Australia's remotest regions appeared in newspapers and journals around the nation. She still remains famous for her bestselling books The Great Australian Loneliness, The Territory, Flying Doctor Calling and My Love Must Wait. Call of the Outback provides a vivid portrait of Ernestine, from the early brilliance she showed as a child in Brisbane to her later life. In particular it evokes Ernestine's larger-than-life personality, the exotic landscapes she explored and the remarkable characters she met on her travels.



Heart of the Outback

Author : Lynne Wilding

Publisher : HarperCollins Australia

Page : 18 pages

File Size : 33,87 MB

Release : 2010-10-01

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0730491684

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A woman's journey to find a special place in the world.Fiery and ambitious, brilliant architect Francey Spinetti is a young woman on her way to the top. When wealthy magnate CJ Ambrose introduces her to his vast North Queensland business empire and a career-scarred local cop, Steve Parish - everything seems to be falling into place, including her love life.But the harsh outback landscape holds more secrets than Francey could possibly have imagined, and more enemies too. CJ's family seem determined to eliminate Francey from the picture - whatever the cost.As CJ's cattle empire becomes embroiled in murder, and Steve puts his life on the line to clear the name of the woman he loves, Francey will need to call on all her strength and determination to survive ...Lynne Wilding captures the bold beauty of the Australian landscape and the strength of its people in Heart of the Outback.



Call of the Outback

Author : Anne Hampson

Publisher :

Page : 186 pages

File Size : 18,71 MB

Release : 1976

Category : English fiction

ISBN : 9780263722925

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The Call of the Outback

Author : Terry Piggott

Publisher :

Page : pages

File Size : 21,66 MB

Release : 2015-10-26

Category :

ISBN : 9781943280339

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Armed with a camera and metal detector he responds to the call again. This book, a selection of prize winning poetry, supplies another glimpse in the life of a lone miner. Whether searching for gold nuggets or Opals during the daylight, at nights the poet wrote of life as lived over forty years in isolation. The unknown graves, the vast plains, the lonely campfires yet, contentment under wide open starry skies. It proved a peaceful, solitary life with the welcomed visits by goannas and an intriguing dingo for company.Within these eighty pages of this second book of Australian Bush Poetry there is beauty, wonder, history and love. Love for the land within the rhymes shared equally with beauty in full page photographic views of Australia's outback. Over high craggy peaks, the breakaways and on to the wide open red plains, he searches to find the gold.With rhythm and rhyme he relates his passion as this miner answers the call of the outback.



Call of the Outback

Author : Peter Lancaster Brown

Publisher :

Page : 191 pages

File Size : 42,78 MB

Release : 1970

Category : Western Australia

ISBN : 9780709115083

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Heart of the Outback

Author : Emma Darcy

Publisher :

Page : 189 pages

File Size : 11,75 MB

Release : 1994

Category :

ISBN : 9780263784138

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Outback

Author : Patricia Wolf

Publisher : Embla Books

Page : 295 pages

File Size : 49,81 MB

Release : 2022-11-08

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1471411702

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The Number 1 Internationally Bestselling Ebook, perfect for fans of The Dry by Jane Harper. 'Tense, gripping and atmospheric' - CHRIS WHITAKER 'Gripped me from its shocking start' - SARAH YARWOOD-LOVETT 'I highly recommend it' - LYNDA LA PLANTE CBE TWO MISSING BACKPACKERS. ONE VAST OUTBACK. DS Lucas Walker is on leave in his hometown, Caloodie, taking care of his dying grandmother. When two young German backpackers, Berndt and Rita, vanish from the area, he finds himself unofficially on the case. But why all the interest from the Federal Police when they have probably just ditched the heat and dust of the outback for the coast? Working in the organised crime unit has opened Walker's eyes to the growing drug trade in Australia's remote interior - and he becomes convinced there is more at play. As the number of days since the couple's disappearance climbs, Walker is joined by Rita's older sister. A detective herself with Berlin CID, she has flown to Australia - desperate to find her sister. Their search becomes ever more urgent as temperatures soar. Even if Walker does find the young couple, will it be too late? This deeply atmospheric thriller is the gripping opening of a new crime series for fans of Cara Hunter and Chris Whitaker. Shortlisted for the CWA New Blood Dagger Award 2023. Readers are gripped by Outback: 'Nail-biting thriller!... From the beginning I was hooked!... A thrilling ride that had me holding my breath through its finale. Highly recommended' Reader review, 5 stars 'Finished this book within a day... I honestly loved it, really had you guessing who the murderer was 'til the last minute' Reader review, 5 stars 'Great, suspenseful mystery... The last 30% turned me into a nervous wreck!' Reader review, 5 stars



Outback Midwife

Author : Beth McRae

Publisher : Random House Australia

Page : 320 pages

File Size : 16,61 MB

Release : 2015-05-01

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 0857983954

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Call the Midwife meets In the Middle of Nowhere in this heartwarming memoir of an adventurous Aussie midwife's life 'catching babies'. Outback Midwife is the story of Beth McRae’s 40 years as a midwife, from her terrifying first day witnessing a birth as a naïve student nurse to her training as a midwife – the days when the words ‘birth plan’ were unheard of and what women wanted was a long way from being part of any plan – to the outback. Beth's career of catching babies takes her from the city to the bush, bonding with people from all walks of life at one of the most important moments in their lives. But there was one more frontier she was determined to conquer. At a time when most people are thinking about slowing down, Beth decides to move to a remote Aboriginal community in Arnhem Land to embark on a whole other adventure.



America's Outback

Author : John Annerino

Publisher :

Page : 112 pages

File Size : 47,43 MB

Release : 2021-07-28

Category :

ISBN : 9780764361876

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Hopi traditional elder Thomas Banyacya once described the American Southwest as "the spiritual center of our continent." Author, photographer, and adventurer John Annerino retraces ancient trails to show us why this is so. Through recent and historical photos, essays, and literary quotes, he takes us across what the Spaniards often feared as despoblados, or unknown lands, from Old Mexico to the Four Corners of ancient cities, painted deserts, and trilingual cultural landscapes--some of the most inaccessible land on the continent. Juxtaposed with tales of his own perilous excursions, the book contains oral histories and remarkable images of terrain that few of today's tourists have ever seen. Told from a current point of view, this throwback to the days of Geronimo and Navajo headman Manuelito will appeal to adventurers, historians, and those interested in the mesmerizing mystique of our own American outback.



Nurses of the Outback

Author : Annabelle Brayley

Publisher : Penguin Group Australia

Page : 252 pages

File Size : 23,58 MB

Release : 2014-03-26

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1742536832

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The work of a nurse is challenging enough, but when you add a remote location, the stakes are so much higher. Meet fifteen courageous people who prove that the outback runs on nurse power. There's Anna, who is on duty as the fury of Cyclone Yasi tears through inland Queensland; Maureen in outback New South Wales, who faces everything from a snakebite to a helicopter crash; Aggie, who overcomes her demons to help young people in the Kimberley; and Catherine, newly graduated and determined to make a difference in the Gulf Country she and her rodeo-riding husband call home. From some of the most remote places on the earth, these stories bring the outback to life – we witness the harshness and isolation as well as the camaraderie of life in small towns in the middle of nowhere. These intrepid nurses tend to life-threatening emergencies, manage everyday health care and even patch up the local pets. From Bidyadanga to Broken Hill, Mount Isa to Marree, these tales are by turns moving and inspiring, full of gutsy feats and classic outback spirit. Annabelle Brayley collected the stories that appeared in the bestselling Bush Nurses. 'Incredible stories of incredible people.' Blue's Country Magaine