Author : Yu Ouyang
Publisher : Wakefield Press Pty, Limited (AUS)
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 45,8 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Chinese
ISBN : 9781862547650
"Very big, China." - Noel Coward. Scholarly and scatological, this cornucopia of fun and wisdom is a breathtaking picture of speech, thought and images from the world's richest and oldest culture. ON THE SMELL OF AN OILY RAG gives an insight like no other into how English-language and Chinese-language cultures collide, contrast and illuminate each other. It's about what is lost in translation and what can be gained by it.
Author : Frank Newman
Publisher :
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,17 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Budgets, Personal
ISBN : 9780958217033
Living off the Smell of an Oily Rag has become a phenomenon since the first oily rag book was released in 1991. Since then the books have become best sellers and been published as a syndicated column throughout New Zealand in some 30 community newspapers from Kaitaia to Invercargill.
Author : John Cherrington
Publisher : Farming Press Limited
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 19,70 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN :
Author : Cherry Simmonds
Publisher :
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 13,92 MB
Release : 2006-09-08
Category : Immigrants
ISBN : 9781869418496
In 1971 Cherry Simmonds left the grinding poverty of Liverpool behind for a new life in New Zealand. Her troubles were only just beginninga Picking up where her bestselling memoir NOBODY IN PARTICULAR left off, this memoir finds Cherry, her husband Eric and their young son Richard on a no-frills Russian ship, sailing out to join the hundreds of Brits then leaving dreary old Britain for a new healthy life in Godzone. With characteristic dead-pan humour, Cherry recounts their new life and its ups and downs, from dead-end jobs to adoption, house fires to running a country lodge. Fans of NOBODY IN PARTICULAR will be drawn to this new title and it will be of particular interest to UK immigrants who now call New Zealand home.
Author : John Sutherland
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 29,68 MB
Release : 2016-09-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1780236964
In 2012 writer John Sutherland permanently lost his sense of smell. At about the same time, he embarked on a rereading of George Orwell and—still coping with his recent disability—noticed something peculiar: Orwell was positively obsessed with smell. In this original, irreverent biography, Sutherland offers a fresh account of Orwell’s life and works, one that sniffs out a unique, scented trail that wends from Burmese Days through Nineteen Eighty-Four and on to The Road to Wigan Pier. Sutherland airs out the odors, fetors, stenches, and reeks trapped in the pages of Orwell’s books. From Winston Smith’s apartment in Nineteen Eighty-Four, which “smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats,” to the tantalizing aromas of concubine Ma Hla May’s hair in Burmese Days, with its “mingled scent of sandalwood, garlic, coconut oil, and jasmine,” Sutherland explores the scent narratives that abound in Orwell’s literary world. Along the way, he elucidates questions that have remained unanswered in previous biographies, addressing gaps that have kept the writer elusively from us. In doing so, Sutherland offers an entertaining but enriching look at one of the most important writers of the twentieth century and, moreover, an entirely new and sensuous way to approach literature: nose first.
Author : Freda Hawkins
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 32,4 MB
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773508521
With the new introduction, Freda Hawkins brings Critical Years in Immigration up to date by discussing the directions taken by the Canadian and Australian governments since 1984. She also clarifies the implications of the recently announced Canadian immigration levels for 1991-95, discussing the government's reasoning and future plans.
Author : U.S. Department of Transportation
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 23,92 MB
Release : 2013-06-03
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 1626363765
Does the identification number 60 indicate a toxic substance or a flammable solid, in the molten state at an elevated temperature? Does the identification number 1035 indicate ethane or butane? What is the difference between natural gas transmission pipelines and natural gas distribution pipelines? If you came upon an overturned truck on the highway that was leaking, would you be able to identify if it was hazardous and know what steps to take? Questions like these and more are answered in the Emergency Response Guidebook. Learn how to identify symbols for and vehicles carrying toxic, flammable, explosive, radioactive, or otherwise harmful substances and how to respond once an incident involving those substances has been identified. Always be prepared in situations that are unfamiliar and dangerous and know how to rectify them. Keeping this guide around at all times will ensure that, if you were to come upon a transportation situation involving hazardous substances or dangerous goods, you will be able to help keep others and yourself out of danger. With color-coded pages for quick and easy reference, this is the official manual used by first responders in the United States and Canada for transportation incidents involving dangerous goods or hazardous materials.
Author : Alain Corbin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 47,87 MB
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674311763
In a book whose insight and originality have already had a dazzling impact in France, Alain Corbin has put the sense of smell on the historical map. He conjures up the dominion that the combined forces of smells--from the seductress's civet to the ubiquitous excremental odors of city cesspools--exercised over the lives (and deaths) of the French in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Author : Fred Brophy
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,94 MB
Release : 2014-08-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 174348304X
'My life has been a mad travelling show, meeting some of the strangest and greatest people who've ever lived. I've had my fair share of trouble and I'm lucky to be here. But I've always been a showman and I've done my best to preserve a precious part of an old Australia that's fast disappearing.' Son of a sideshow operator and trapeze artist, fourth-generation showman Fred Brophy grew up on the road, travelling the length and breadth of Australia. He did time in jail as a wild teenager before establishing his own successful boxing tent. It has become a star attraction in the Outback and is now the only one of its kind in the world. Fred tells stories of living on the smell of an oily rag, rescuing battlers, and becoming embroiled in some of the most bizarre adventures imaginable. This is one helluva life, full of hardship, hilarity and unexpected turns, including Fred being inducted into the Queensland Boxing Hall of Fame and receiving a Medal of the Order of Australia. 'Now ladies and gentlemen, let's go inside. The show's about to begin . . .'
Author : Mike Hyde
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 26,10 MB
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0730400735
At Buffalo Bill's there was all manner of grilled and fried food, and this motorcycling connoisseur had a hard job choosing his burger. At Buffalo Bill's there was all manner of grilled and fried food, and this motorcycling connoisseur had a hard job choosing his burger. I decided to make the meal educational. Many will be wondering about the difference between buffalo and bison. Are they the same animal? the answer is a resounding no! Bison comes with a pickle, lettuce, melted cheese and shoestring fries. With buffalo, you get red onion, no cheese and curly fries. It's good to be able to clear that up. No sooner had the ointment started to work after Mike Hyde's 17,000-kilometre motorcycle circumnavigation of Australia than his mid-life itch returned. this time his goal was 50 states in America in 60 days, and twisting throttle America is the result - classic roadside tales of an ordinary Kiwi bloke doing it alone, on the smell of an oily rag and cholesterol pills.the Land of the Free is also the Land of the Bizarre Roadside Attraction, and, if Bill Bryson was a middle-aged Kiwi biker on a budget, he might have written this book. Come on a road trip with twisting throttle - he's funny, irreverent and definitely not taking himself seriously. thrill to close encounters with American wildlife, join his fantasy ride around Washington with Motorcycle One, share the excitement and wet underwear of out-running Hurricane Ike, and enjoy his unforgettable attempts to understand diner waitresses.Mike Hyde lives in Christchurch. this is his second book about an epic solo motorbike journey. His wife is clearly a wonderful woman.
