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All Aboard: Tales of Australian Railways by Jim Haynes and Russell Hannah
Category: Biography | Series: Great Australian S.
With eighty plus evocative black and white photographs peppered throughout the text, the book includes stories by Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain, D.H. Lawrence, Henry Handel Richardson and Henry Lawson, as well as some character pieces by Russell Hannah and Jim Haynes. Also gives accounts of major i ...Show more
Amazing Grace: Great Australian Bush Priest Stories by Bill Marsh
Category: Australian History | Series: Great Australian Stories Ser.
Great Australian stories of faith and friendship in outback Australia, gathered by the inimitable Bill 'Swampy' Marsh - bestselling author of Great Australian Flying Doctor Stories and Great Australian CWA Stories. 'The term "Bible bashing" took on new meaning in our household ...Mum used to suffer from ...Show more
Great Australian Ambos Stories by Bill 'Swampy' Marsh (Read by); Sancia Robinson (Read by)
Category: Audio | Series: Great Australian Stories Ser.
'Yeah, while some of my stories are quite gory, others can be very enlightening. Though, in hindsight, the best outcomes are when the patient pulls through. It's then that you know you've done your job, and you get a bit of a buzz out of that.'Rural and remote ambulance drivers and paramedics are a dedi ...Show more
Great Australian Ambos Stories by Bill 'Swampy' Marsh (Read by); Sancia Robinson (Read by)
Category: Audio | Series: Great Australian Stories Ser.
'Yeah, while some of my stories are quite gory, others can be very enlightening. Though, in hindsight, the best outcomes are when the patient pulls through. It's then that you know you've done your job, and you get a bit of a buzz out of that.'Rural and remote ambulance drivers and paramedics are a dedi ...Show more
Great Australian Ambos Stories by Bill Marsh
Category: Biography | Series: Great Australian Stories Ser.
Yeah, while some of my stories are quite gory, others can be very enlightening. Though, in hindsight, the best outcomes are when the patient pulls through. It's then that you know you've done your job, and you get a bit of a buzz out of that. Put the sirens on and get ready to hit the road, because fact ...Show more
Great Australian Aviation Stories by Haynes Jim
Category: Fiction | Series: Great Australian Stories Ser.
A collection of dramatic, true stories and colourful accounts of our fascinating aviation history featuring personalities and pioneers, history, triumphs, tragedies and near misses. These stories also show the human side of aviation and how it changed the lives of ordinary people, workers and travellers ...Show more
Great Australian Bush Funeral Stories by Bill Marsh
Category: History | Series: Great Australian Stories Ser.
Marsh knows how to spin a yarn' - Gold Coast Bulletin We're nearing the end of the service and so I step closer in to do the last 'ashes to ashes and dust to dust' bit. Just as I get to the edge of the grave, the soil gives away and in I go. Well, they reckon I was like a kangaroo. I hardly missed a bea ...Show more
Great Australian Bush Priests Stories by Bill Marsh
Category: Biography | Series: Great Australian Stories Ser.
Great Australian Bushfire Stories by Ian Mannix
Category: Australian History | Series: Great Australian Stories ABC
A collection of remarkable stories from all around Australia that tell of the country's fiercest natural phenomenon: the bushfire. Some stories are funny, some tragic and some courageous, but all the storytellers exhibit tenacity and grit in their fight to save their homes, their animals, their towns, a ...Show more
Great Australian Droving Stories by Bill Marsh
Category: Australiana SPECIALS | Series: Great Australian Stories Ser.
A collection of amazing, hilarious, controversial, rugged stories that pack a real punch. Listen as these drovers, ringers, stockmen, stockwomen and scoundrels speak about their way of life in an Australia that is fast disappearing.
Great Australian Droving Stories by Bill Marsh
Category: Biography | Series: Great Australian Stories Ser.
the world of the Australian drover is almost forgotten. In this book we hear of the men (and women) who travelled vast distances along Australia's stock routes. Bill 'Swampy' Marsh travelled around Australia gathering their stories.Before utes, planes and helicopters, mustering and droving were done by ...Show more
Great Australian Fly-Fishing Stories (CD) by Hawkins Les
Category: Audio Books | Series: Great Australian Ser.
Whether you chase the big browns or feisty rainbows of the high country and lakes, the dusky flathead in the estuaries, bass in the rivers or tackle-breaking hoodlum kingfish, this is the book for you. Les Hawkins has collected some of the most evocative accounts of fly fishing, stories that will make f ...Show more