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A riveting tale of adventure, romance, tragedy and mateship, Alwyn's story is also a tribute to the outback and the characters who make it special. From Winton to Wanganui, this is the ride of a lifetime.
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Over the years I’ve learnt many trades, including electrical. In 1975 I bought a small crops farm near Gympie, then in 1991 bought a cattle station in North Queensland. By the late 90’s I sold up to hit the road, where I took on all sorts of maintenance work throughout Australia and enjoyed a vast array of outback experiences.
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Minerals fundamentally contribute to the manufacture of vital requisites such as food, clothing, heat, light and shelter, in order for human communities to exist.
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Written by John Maddock, a past editor of Truck and Bus magazine It is an easy to read book about the mail runs in the corner country and about Harry Ding’s (H.E. Ding of Yunta South Australia) and trucks which contributed so much to those living in isolated areas of Australia in the 1930’s.
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The story of Tom Kruse ‘a tribute to a man who earned the love of a whole generation of Australians’
Tom Kruse always got the mail through-come drought, hell or high water. This is a truly a classic Australian story, and captures part of our history that is fast vanishing.
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Grandfather and Grandmother telling lots of stories. They had to live at Yalata. Their home was bombed. That was their home where the bomb went off. They thought it was mamu tjuta, evil spirits, coming. Everyone was frightened, thinking about people back in the bush. Didn’t know what bomb was. Later told it was poison. Parents and grandparents really wanted to go home, used to talk all the time to get their land back.’
Yvonne Edwards was just six years old when the first bombs of the nuclear tests at Maralinga were detonated in 1956. The tests continued until 1963 and their consequences profoundly affected her family and community.
This powerful book, by award-winning author Christobel Mattingley, honours Yvonne Edwards’ legacy as a highly respected artist and community elder
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Marree is a small town located in the north of South Australia. It lies 685 kilometres North of Adelaide at the junction of the Oodnadatta Track and the Birdsville Track, 49 metres above sea level. Marree is an important service centre for the large sheep and cattle stations in northeast South Australia as well as a stopover destination for tourists traveling along the Birdsville or Oodnadatta tracks.
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There are many books written about Matthew Flinders detailing his life and maritime experiences. The better known books are re mentioned in the bibliography at the rear of this book.
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The Flinders and Mount Lofty Ranges of South Australia consist of rocks once deposited as sediments in an elongated basin. This basin known as the Adelaide Geosyncline, stretches from Kangaroo Island to at least as far as Oodnadatta and across to Broken Hill. The rocks of this world-famous geological province provide a record of changing environments and life forms spanning a period from 1100 to 500 million years before present.
This is a 66 page soft cover book which has many maps, photos and drawings.
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Mopokes and Mirages? Both part of the great Australian Folklore, but neither having much substance. No such bird as a mopoke and a bit hard to get your hand or mind around a mirage.
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Mulga Madness is a hilarious collection of true stories, which pay tribute to Australian bush humour.
Rex Ellis has a great sense of humour, he has spent his life working on outback stations and running his tours to remote outback areas of Australia, he writes a good book.
Peter Moore left the city behind in 1952 to become part of a dying breed-a long distance drover. In My Droving Days we follow his progress through the 1950’s as he rubs shoulders with the larger than life characters and their dogs and horses who trekked along the outback stock routes of western Queensland and New South Wales.
Meet the world’s worst cattle dog and the station hand, Charlie, who blows an outside toilet (and its contents) sky high; thrill to the high drama of a night stampede; catch a poddy dodger in the act; get caught by a beast’s horns; take a brown snake while collecting wild duck eggs or shoot a few roos to feed the twenty seven dogs on the team.
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Native Eucalypts of South Australia treats every native eucalypt species and subspecies that is currently known in the state (103 in total). The book provides a wealth of information regarding the identification distribution, ecology an uses of each eucalypt included.
Soft-cover
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Most regional natural histories treat the subject superficially, simply because it is impossible for one author to possess the necessary depth of knowledge to do justice to such a broad topic. In this new volume 24 authors have collaborated to produce 15 chapters.
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This book is the first in a series, and was published in 1976, by the Royal Society of South Australia.
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The Natural History of the Flinders Ranges is a collection of topics which includes : History of Exploration and Settlement : Geology : Colourful and Exotic Minerals of the Flinders Ranges : Aspects of the Geological Setting and Palaeobiology of the Ediacara Assemblage : The Development of the Land Surface : Climate of the Flinders…
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