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The Best Australian Yarns: And Other True Stories by Jim Haynes
Category: Australiana
Best Australian Yarns is a substantial and definitive collection of factual and fanciful Aussie stories, humor, and anecdotes--the result of decades of researching popular Aussie culture and history, and yarning to mates and other colorful characters from all parts of Australia.This collection includes ...Show more
The Best Gallipoli Yarns and Forgotten Stories audio cd by Jim Haynes
Category: Audio Books
A unique collection of poignant, horrific, sad, and sometimes dryly humorous, stories and yarns from the bloody battlefield of Gallipoli. This is not a history, nor is it an individual soldier's story. Rather Jim Haynes has done what he does so well and pulled together the many yarns and stories and ver ...Show more
The Big Book of Australian Racing Stories by Jim Haynes
Category: Audio Books
Australian author Bestselling author Great tales of the turf from Jorrocks to Black Caviar. Jim Haynes loves the sport of kings nearly as much as he loves bush yarns, and in this volume he brings these two great loves together in the biggest book of Australian racing stories ever. Full of tall tales and ...Show more
The Big Book of Australian Racing Stories: Great Tales of the Turf from Jorrocks to Black Caviar by Jim Haynes
Category: Sports and Hobbies
Jim Haynes, Australia's favourite tale teller, loves the sport of kings as much as he loves Aussie yarns and bush verse. From country picnic tracks to the thoroughbred racecourses of Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne, from Archer to Black Caviar, from the mysterious punter Louis the Possum to the great tra ...Show more
The Big Book of Australian Racing Stories: Great Tales of the Turf from Jorrocks to Black Caviar by Jim Haynes
Category: Sports and Hobbies
Jim Haynes, Australia's favourite tale teller, loves the sport of kings as much as he loves Aussie yarns and bush verse. From country picnic tracks to the thoroughbred racecourses of Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne, from Archer to Black Caviar, from the mysterious punter Louis the Possum to the great tra ...Show more
The Big Book of Australia's War Stories by Jim Haynes
Category: History
Here are the stories of Australia's iconic battles and campaigns from the time of federation to the Vietnam War. Some are still household names, although their historical significance may be a mystery to most Aussies. Others are barely remembered now, but are part in our history and deserve to be retold ...Show more
The Big Book of Verse for Aussie Kids by Jim Haynes
Category: Graphic Novels
The most comprehensive, authoritative and definitive book of poetry ever published in Australia for children. The famous rub shoulders with schoolyard rhymes, alphabets and nonsense verse. Over 600 of the best verses for children in the English language have been especially chosen, with emphasis on Aust ...Show more
The Great Australian Book of Limericks by Jim Haynes
Category: Languages and Reference
Everyone knows at least one limerick. Here are all the limericks you can remember, and many you can't recall but wished you couldfrom childhood ones to some very adult ones. Jim Haynes has arranged more than a thousand limericks according to typewitty and whimsical, childish and charming, linguistic and ...Show more
The Greatest Aussie Yarns by Jim Haynes (Read by)
Category: Audio
The trucker's job - so vital to our nation's everyday life - makes for a diverse treasure trove of stories.This first-ever collection of stories about Aussie truckers captures the humour, tragedy and fascinating history of their world, proving once again that truth is often stranger, funnier and more in ...Show more