With the success of The Desert Column in 1932, Idriess wrote this series of mini-biographies on Australia's World War One Flying aces - John Duigan, Harry Cobby, Ross Smith, Oswald Watt, Gordon Taylor, Frank McNamara - our first V.C. aviator, and the post war acrobatics of Macintosh and Paper. Introducing the lot with a background piece on ......
Born in 1893, Anthony Bolam was the Station Master at Ooldea Siding on the Trans-Australian Railway from 1920 to 1925. Bolam was very interested in Aboriginal culture and was a careful and sympathetic recorder of their lifestyle, customs and ceremonies of both the West Australian and South Australian Aboriginals. A keen photographer, he took many ......
THE MURDER of my great-great-great-grandfather by Maori warriors caused his daughter, my great-great-grandmother, THOMASINE, to decide not to emigrate to New Zealand and instead to settle on the isolated Nerang River in South-East Queensland in what became the Gold Coast.
It would be hard to find a more satisfying hero than the young warrior Red Kangaroo, who by his mental and physical prowess became a chief of his tribe - the revered and powerful Red Chief of the Gunnedah district in northern New South Wales.
"His skill lies in knowing what matters. Perhaps his most impressive characteristic is that he does know what matters and resists wasting words on unnecessary explanations. The best of these stories are mulled over and mature, every detail lovingly placed." - Rodney Hall, Sydney Morning Herald
Tony Keulemans spent his childhood in the UK and was a war-time evacuee. At age 19, he was commissioned in the Royal Air Force and during the next seven years served in post-war Germany and Holland. Following an RAF mission to Woomera in 1952 and a brief visit to Sydney, he decided to start a new life in Australia.
A Biography Of Martin Sharp As Told to Lowell Tarling
Martin Sharp was an integral part of international Pop Art in the 1960s, magnified through his covers for OZ magazine, his covers for Cream, and posters of Dylan, Hendrix and Donovan. His efforts at making The Yellow House and Luna Park cultural precincts were aided by his screen prints and exhibitions to flaunt the work of others.
The entertaining story of Geoff Dobbin's life on the high seas - and on land - from his early childhood in Dubbo in outback Australia, through to his adventures in the Pacific Islands, and on to high-life aboard P&O liners. Geoff has a lively sense of humour and describes the ups-and-downs of naval life with considerable panache.