Author : Grace Atwood
Publisher : Random House Australia
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 23,8 MB
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0857984888
A picture book series about the extraordinary men and women who have shaped Australia's history, including Australia's first female commercial pilot, Nancy Bird Walton. Nancy Bird Walton grew up during the golden age of aviation. By the time she was 13, Nancy knew she wanted to fly. This is the story of how Nancy began her career as Australia’s first female commercial pilot.
Author : Richard de Crespigny
Publisher : Macmillan Publishers Aus.
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 24,43 MB
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1743347898
QF32 is the award winning bestseller from Richard de Crespigny, author of the forthcoming Fly!: Life Lessons from the Cockpit of QF32 On 4 November 2010, a flight from Singapore to Sydney came within a knife edge of being one of the world's worst air disasters. Shortly after leaving Changi Airport, an explosion shattered Engine 2 of Qantas flight QF32 - an Airbus A380, the largest and most advanced passenger plane ever built. Hundreds of pieces of shrapnel ripped through the wing and fuselage, creating chaos as vital flight systems and back-ups were destroyed or degraded. In other hands, the plane might have been lost with all 469 people on board, but a supremely experienced flight crew, led by Captain Richard de Crespigny, managed to land the crippled aircraft and safely disembark the passengers after hours of nerve-racking effort. Tracing Richard's life and career up until that fateful flight, QF32 shows exactly what goes into the making of a top-level airline pilot, and the extraordinary skills and training needed to keep us safe in the air. Fascinating in its detail and vividly compelling in its narrative, QF32 is the riveting, blow-by-blow story of just what happens when things go badly wrong in the air, told by the captain himself. Winner of ABIA Awards for Best General Non-fiction Book of the Year 2013 and Indie Awards' Best Non-fiction 2012 Shortlisted ABIA Awards' Book of the Year 2013
Author : Yvonne Mes
Publisher : Random House Australia
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 37,25 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0857985892
"A picture book series about the extraordinary men and women who have shaped Australia's history, including iconic painter Sidney Nolan.Sidney Nolan is one of Australia s most admired and recognised visual artists. This is the story of how he developed his iconic Ned Kelly series of paintings, brought modernist art to Australia and took Australian art to an admiring international audience. From Ned Kelly to Saint Mary MacKillop; Captain Cook to Banjo Paterson, the Meet ... series of picture books tells the exciting stories of the men and women who have shaped Australia's history."
Author : David Long
Publisher : Wide Eyed Editions
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 13,72 MB
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1847807046
Meet some of history's most illustrious and interesting characters in this book that visits key moments of the past from around the world. When young Augustus falls asleep in history class, Professor Tempo decides to teach him a lesson and show him that history isn't boring at all! She hands him a magic diary, all he needs to do is write the time and place to travel there. Together they head out on a whistle-stop tour of history through the ages to meet some of the world's finest explorers, inventors, leaders, writers, composers and painters, including Albert Einstein, Mozart, Louis XIV, Shakespeare, Leonardo Da Vinci, Christopher Columbus Genghis Khan, Emperor Titus in Rome, athletes at the very first Olympic Games, Tutankhamen in Egypt, and even Palaeolithic man as he discovers fire. Each double page spread introduces a different time and place, with an introductory text from Augustus which explains the sights and sounds, and accompanying captions from the Professor which provide key facts. A character index at the rear gives a short biography of all the historical characters covered, and a timeline helps to contextualize the different time periods covered.
Author : Rae Murdie
Publisher : Random House Australia
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 26,48 MB
Release : 2014-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0857980181
Captain Cook was the first European to discover the eastern coast of Australia. Along with his crew on the HMB Endeavour, Cook set out from England with royal orders to look for signs of the great southern land known as Terra Australis, which they chartered in 1788. This picture book series features the extraordinary men and women who have shaped Australia's history.
Author : Yvonne Mes
Publisher : Random House Australia
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 43,91 MB
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0857985914
A picture book series about the extraordinary men and women who have shaped Australia's history, including iconic painter Sidney Nolan. Sidney Nolan is one of Australia’s most admired and recognised visual artists. This is the story of how he developed his iconic Ned Kelly series of paintings, brought modernist art to Australia and took Australian art to an admiring international audience. From Ned Kelly to Saint Mary MacKillop; Captain Cook to Banjo Paterson, the Meet ... series of picture books tells the exciting stories of the men and women who have shaped Australia's history.
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Page : 856 pages
File Size : 38,51 MB
Release : 1970
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Author : Coral Vass
Publisher : Random House Australia
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 21,79 MB
Release : 2016-04-18
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1925324915
A picture book series about the extraordinary men and women who have shaped Australia’s history, including cricket’s greatest ever batsman, Sir Donald Bradman. Don Bradman was Australia’s greatest cricketer. This is the story of how he first came to play for Australia, and how his record-breaking feats in the Ashes series became a source of pride and hope during the hard years of the Great Depression. From Ned Kelly to Saint Mary MacKillop; Captain Cook to Banjo Paterson, the Meet ... series of picture books tells the exciting stories of the men and women who have shaped Australia's history.
Author : Dennis R. Shealy
Publisher : Golden Books
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 17,27 MB
Release : 2012-04-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0307978885
A dinosaur book with humor and fun facts—perfect for the youngest dino fans! "I'm a T. rex! I ROARRRR and I romp! I GRRROWWLLL and I stomp! I'm a T. rex." In this brand-new Little Golden Book, a T. rex tells all about his great and terrible self. Facts about the T. rex are humorously presented: "Does the T stand for toothy? Does the T stand for tall? Does the T stand for terrible? I am known as them all!" The ending reveals a surprise: the T. rex is still a baby in a nest, watched over lovingly by his "great BIG MAMA T. rex!" This Little Golden Book is illustrated by Brian Biggs, one of today's most in-demand illustrators. He brings to life the popular Shredderman books by Wendelin Van Draanen. Author Dennis Shealy is a children's book editor and the author of the popular Little Golden Book I'm a Truck, illustrated by the award-winning artist Bob Staake.
Author : Marg Carroll
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 50,23 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 1742693946
Real stories can touch our humanity and move us to understand ourselves, as well as the person we are reading about. The adventurers here provide a mosaic of Australia over the past century, a priceless legacy. Here, 15 fiercely independent men and women who have lived life exuberantly cast a revealing light on a fast vanishing Australia. These subjects share their unique experiences with a cocky modern world often focused more on youth. What's it like to hunt wild buffalo on horseback, or to hover calmly underwater to avoid the bends while being circled by bronze whaler sharks? What's it like.
