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Ecotopia 2121: A Vision for Our Future Green Utopia in 100 Cities by Alan Marshall
Category: Home and Garden
A stunningly original, lushly illustrated vision for a Green Utopia, published on the 500th anniversary of the original Big Idea--a 2016 Green Book Festival "Future Forecasts" Winner. Five hundred years ago a powerful new word was unleashed upon the world when Thomas More published his book Utopia, abo ...Show more
Freddie Mercury: The Great Pretender, A Life in Pictures by Alan Marshall
Category: Music
Freddie Mercury was an iconic singer who was hugely popular throughout his brilliant music career, as the singer of Queen and as a solo artist. The world mourned his untimely death in 1991 but he was incredibly prolific and left behind a rich legacy of recordings, not all of which have been released to ...Show more
I Can Jump Puddles by Alan Marshall
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Alan Marshall's classic account of his childhood spent on crutches after contracting polio at the age of six is funny, tough, moving, profoundly Australian, yet completely universal - and inspirational in the best sense.
I Can Jump Puddles (Australian Children's Classics) by Alan Marshall
Category: Children's Classic Fiction | Series: Australian Children's Classics
It amazed me that they would imagine I would never walk again. I knew what I was going to do. I was going to break in wild horses and yell 'Ho! Ho!' and wave my hat in the air, and I was going to write a book like The Coral Island. Every so often, there comes a story so brilliant and lively and moving ...Show more
I Can Jump Puddles (MP3-CD) by MARSHALL ALAN
Category: Audio Books
I Can Jump Puddles is Alan Marshall's story of his childhood--a happy world in which, despite his crippling poliomyelitis, he plays, climbs, fights, swims, rides, and laughs. His world was the Australian countryside early last century: rough-riders, bushmen, farmers, and tellers of tall stories--a worl ...Show more
I Can Jump Puddles: Popular Penguins by Alan Marshall
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
I Can Jump Puddles is Alan Marshall's story of his childhood--a happy world in which, despite his crippling poliomyelitis, he plays, climbs, fights, swims, rides, and laughs. His world was the Australian countryside early last century: rough-riders, bushmen, farmers, and tellers of tall stories--a worl ...Show more
In Mine Own Heart by Alan Marshall
Category: Young Adult
There lay over Melbourne, as over all Australia, a mass hopelessness that touched everyone, even those who felt secure. It was impossible to escape being affected by it. In the third book of Alan Marshall's three-part autobiography, his own struggle to assert himself socially and professionally despite ...Show more
This is the Grass by Alan Marshall
Category: Biography
This is the Grass is Alan Marshall's moving sequel to the much-loved Australian classic I Can Jump Puddles. First published in 1962, it tells the story of Marshall's adolescence, as he searches for work amid the rough and tumble of 1920s Melbourne. From Wallaby Creek in Donvale Shire where he boards wit ...Show more
Whispering in the Wind - Text Classics by Alan Marshall; Shane Maloney
Category: Children's Classic Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
First published in 1969, a charming children's classic. Peter lives in a bush hut with Crooked Mick, the greatest horse rider in all the world. One day Peter decides to go out and find a princess and rescue her from a dragon. With his horse Moonlight he sets out on his quest. Along the way he meets an a ...Show more
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