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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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The North East Deserts is not a single geological entity, its boundary being a combination of physiographical, geographical and geological features enclosing parts of several geological provinces. the diverse geology is partly expressed in the various landforms of the region such as the Simpson and Strezelecki dune fields, the great playa lake and river systems of Lake Eyre and Cooper and Diamantina Creeks, the giber plains and stony plateaux and, along the western and southern margin, a line of artesian springs and associated features. As well as the surface geology unexposed rocks form an integral part of the geological story.
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This has to be one of the most effective products around and has gained cult status amongst bushies and holidaymakers alike! And it is not only these – anyone who spends time outside appreciates it: golfers, shooters, walkers, in fact, people from every walk of life.
The creme is made from Rosemary and Cedarwood essential oils in an olive oil base. The essential oils of rosemary and cedarwood are widely documented for effectiveness and safety.
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Nature’s Botanical Rosemary & Cedarwood Oils In a Natural Lotion – 50gm. Take it on your next camping trip, fishing expedition, sporting event, holiday – wherever you go. Use on face, neck, ears, or any other exposed area. Contains no petrochemicals just Rosemary and Cedarwood Oils in a natural lotion. Great Smelling Too! Please note that products containing rosemary or cedarwood should not be used on children under 3 years of age. Pregnant women should also avoid using them.
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Nature’s Botanical Rosemary & Cedarwood Oils In a Natural Roll-On Lotion – 50 ml. Take it on your next camping trip, fishing expedition, sporting event, holiday – wherever you go. Use on face, neck, ears, or any other exposed area. Contains no petrochemicals just Rosemary and Cedarwood Oils in a natural lotion. Great Smelling Too! Please note that products containing rosemary or cedarwood should not be used on children under 3 years of age. Pregnant women should also avoid using them.
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The dust, the flies, the dingoes are the only company, sometimes for weeks, the occasional crackle of a voice over a wireless radio from far-flung places – this was the world of Val Oldfield for 10 years when living on Australia’s infamous Birdsville Track.
A 500 kilometre stretch of gibbers, dust and sand, the Track traverses the driest part, of the driest state, of the driest continent, on earth. It is land of peril and tragedy, of colourful characters enduring friendships and of triumphs over adversity.
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Pine Creek Publican Mayse Young
was a legendary beauty and outback identity by the age of twenty. In the Northern Territory of the ‘thirties and ‘forties she reared seven children. She was also ‘Mum’ to hundreds of stockmen, miners and drifters for whom her hotel was the best drinking hole on the track – the meeting place, unofficial bank, library, makeshift surgery and sometimes doghouse for an entire community.
Mayse handled snakes, horses and trucks in her fifty years behind the bar, as well as her regular customers – and she could spin a yarn with the best of them.
Born in the bush, the daughter of an itinerant railway ganger, Mayse lived under canvas as a child, learned to cook in a cap oven, to make a home from packing cases and kerosene tins. Twice in her life she saw the destruction of her home and of all she owned. She survived the heat, dust and floods of the Territory, the Japanese bombs on Darwin during the war and, later, the devastation wrought by Cyclone Tracey.
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No Roads To Darwin is a journey, a very hazardous journey, which begins for one of the pursued in Italy. It is the result of an idea from mega wealthy arms dealer, Enzo Grassi, who has a great respect and love of Australia. He is embarrassed by his inherited wealth, and has a vision where the…
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Rema Tip Top Patch. This patch is a patch for repairing a punctured inner tube. Owing to the size and cost of postage multiple purchases would be the most economical. The No.4 Patch measures 80mm x 80mm
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On the line : families and farms in the hundred of Cudlamudla and it’s town, Wilson : being glimpses of the agricultural history of that hundred through which the Great Northern Railway passed in the Central Flinders Ranges after 1880 / Tony Bott
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Was the PTSD a consequence of vicarious trauma from working as a country doctor for over thirty
years? Did it come from his life-long feelings of being an outsider trying to fit in? Or was it a result of trauma experienced by his parents and grandparents in their search for security across three continents?
Or maybe it was his personality type. His nature. Did the qualities that made him a trusted doctor also make him vulnerable to the inevitable impact of caring for people over many years?
Is a double first. It contains the history of a stone-studded paddock that was once a township of Gordon and also the tragic story of Jimmy Bole. Although it was never the author’s original intention to write the history of the town.
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