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50 Years - Aunty's Jubilee: Celebrating 50 Years of ABC Television by Tim Bowden
Category: unmapped
A fascinating, entertaining and evocative treasure trove of do you remember? moments celebrating 50 years of television on the ABC.
Abandoned at Fossil Bluff - A Remarkable Account of Antarctic Survival by Tim Bowden; Rod Ledingham
Category: Biography
In the summer of 1967-68, Rod Ledingham was with the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) on the Antarctic Peninsula. High on the polar plateau, he was working as a field assistant to a surveyor, replacing an injured colleague who had to be evacuated. Ledingham had been flown in by a light aircraft, but after ...Show more
Changi Photographer - George Aspinall's Record of Captivity by Tim Bowden; George Aspinall (Photographer)
Category: Military | Series: ABC Bks.
Revised edition of this unique and visual diary of an Australian prisoner - of war of the Japanese, George Aspinall. It not only tells George's remarkable personal story, but documents for the first time the full collection of surviving photographs he took under extraordinarily difficult circumstances i ...Show more
Devil in Tim: Travels in Tasmania by Tim Bowden
Category: Travel Literature
Tim Bowden rediscovers Tasmania, its history and its people with all the wry humour and enthusiasm we've come to expect from one of Australia's best loved travel writers and story tellers. When Tim Bowden went back to Tasmania to explore his state of origin for the first time in many years, he was remin ...Show more
Ion Idriess - The Last Interview by Tim Bowden (As told to); Ion Idriess (As told by)
Category: Biography
Ion "Jack" Idriess (1889 - 1979) is recognised as one of Australia's great storytellers, having published over 50 books including the Outback tales of Lasseter's Last Ride, Flynn of the Inland, and The Cattle King alongside major works on the histories of Broken Hill, Broome and Cooktown. This book is ...Show more
Larrikins in Khaki: Tales of Irreverence and Courage from World War II Diggers by Tim Bowden
Category: Military | Series: Irreverence & Courage from WWII Digger Memoirs
From recruitment and training and the battlegrounds of Palestine, North Africa, Thailand, Burma and beyond, here are the highly individual stories of Australia's World War II Diggers told in their own voices - warts and all.
NO TERN UNSTONED by BOWDEN TIM
Category: Biography Memoir
Tim Bowden has been writing and sharing his stories with the public since the early sixties in his home state of Tasmania. This quirky and eclectic series of recollections and anecdotes is Tim at his best with a wry view on life, his own personal stories and some amusing moments from his life as a repor ...Show more
No Plucking! by Tim Bowden
Category: Biography
An autobiography with a difference - its funny. The great ABC journalist, now in his 80s, skates through the absurdity of the oddments of memory, and of his exhilerating times reporting around the world to Australian homes. An autobiography with a difference - its funny. The great ABC journalist, now in ...Show more
No Plucking! - Oddments Collected by a Reptile of the Press by Tim Bowden
Category: Biography
No Tern Unstoned (CD) by Tim Bowden
Category: Audio Books
Tim Bowden has been writing and sharing his stories with the public since the early sixties in his home state of Tasmania. This quirky and eclectic series of recollections and anecdotes is Tim at his best with a wry view on life, his own personal stories and some amusing moments from his life as a repor ...Show more