Beyond The Purple Hills

Beyond The Purple Hills PDF Author: Heather Graves
Publisher: Piatkus
ISBN: 1405528923
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 358

Book Description
Maggie McDiarmit takes after her father Dermot in every respect: her wild red hair, her love of horses - and her weakness for picking pockets. After Maggie and Dermot have stolen the passage money, the McDiarmit family travel to Australia, land of opportunity. But old habits die hard and when her pickpocketing skills come to light Maggie is forced to flee from the city. Accepting grazier Callum MacGregor's offer of a domestic position on his family's property, Maggie instinctively trusts him. In fact it is almost as though she has met him before. Soon Maggie realises why. Callum's younger brother, Hamish, from whom he is bitterly estranged, is none other than the young man her father robbed in Melbourne. Hamish has every reason to scorn and denounce her - but seeing his brother's undisguised interest in Maggie, he takes a more subtle revenge... Discover Piatkus Entice: temptation at your fingertips - www.piatkusentice.co.uk

Beyond the Outback

Beyond the Outback PDF Author: Bronwyn Blake
Publisher: Hachette Australia
ISBN: 0733642217
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 205

Book Description
Twenty women share their incredible stories of surviving and thriving in the remote Australian 'Gulf Country', near the Gulf of Carpentaria. Gulf women are self-sufficient, generous, and can cope with almost anything that life and the environment throws at them: floods, drought, sickness, emergencies. Whether they are graziers, fisherwomen, ringers, women in tourism, aviation and education, Indigenous women or descendants from early women settlers, this powerful book gives these women a voice to tell their own stories. There are stories of new mothers on properties isolated and inaccessible for months in the wet season; women giving birth at home with only neighbours to assist; reminiscences from last century and World War II, and accounts of fishing in the Gulf in sometimes unimaginable conditions. From the kids wanting a baby croc for a pet to the terror of a snake bite with a flooded airstrip and impassable roads, these women treat the extraordinary events in their lives as just part of their remote way of life. Set in a world of vast landscapes, distance and merciless climate, Beyond the Outback contains riveting tales of the lives of the women who live, work and raise families in one of Australia's most isolated regions. It will be loved by readers of Sara Henderson, Toni Tapp Coutts and Terry Underwood.

Beyond the Mirage

Beyond the Mirage PDF Author: Arthur W. Upfield
Publisher: ETT Imprint
ISBN: 1922384151
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 297

Book Description
To observe a ridge of sandhills was to wonder what lay beyond them... Perhaps it was the sense of freedom, both physically and spiritually, the knowledge that should I want to look beyond the sandhills and peer beyond the mirage, there was nothing but my two legs and a water bag to prevent me... As thousands did before me, and as men are still doing in these days, I asked for my cheque instead of orders one bright morning in May, and a week later an eager young man pushed a loaded bicycle out of Wilcannia. Arthur Upfield's autobiography was written in 1937 but put aside during the intervening years of the Second World War. Now available for the first time, here is Upfield's own story of tramping Australia and developing his great crime novels featuring Bony, the first Aboriginal detective, alongside real desert characters like One-Spur Dick, Mr Pluto, Dead March Harry and the evil Snowy Rowles. Illustrated with photographs from Upfield's archive.

The Large Game

The Large Game PDF Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385241286
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 481

Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

Confluence

Confluence PDF Author: Piers Cruickshanks
Publisher: Pan Macmillan South africa
ISBN: 1770104747
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 244

Book Description
Each River is unique, winding a course through a valley of its own making. But at a confluence rivers meet, each taking on the strength of the other as they join forces and head towards the sea.

Beyond the Wild Wood

Beyond the Wild Wood PDF Author: Bookey Peek
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN: 014352870X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 402

Book Description
For all its wild beauty, the Matobo Hills is a friendly place. Of course, there's always the chance one might step on a puff adder or meet a wounded leopard, but these are unlikely occurrences, and the joy in my serendipitous wandering was well worth any minor risk. And then along came a honey badger, touted as the most fearless animal in the world: one to whom Trouble and Danger are the very stuff of life. He is totally unreasonable. He hates peace and quiet - he's a one-man street gang, the Mafia Boss, the executioner waiting at the scaffold with a great grin on his face. Trouble? Bring it on. I'm ready.' In this third book in the Stone Hills series, Badger grows up and launches himself into the world of dangerous snakes, angry bees and deadly scorpions wi th his family i n anxious at tendance. Once again, the stories range widely, from witchcraft and wilderness, to pygmy cannibals and the torrid romancing of the red-backed toad. But laughter and tears are never far apart in Zimbabwe, not least when a small badger leaves home and makes his way into his own, perilous world.

Bush Studies

Bush Studies PDF Author: Barbara Baynton
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 90

Book Description
Bush Studies is a short story collection by Barbara Baynton that presents Australian bush life in the early colonial period as dangerous and isolating for women. Baynton's short stories and novels were noted at the time of their publication, and since, for their grim realism and depiction of female suffering. Excerpt: "A swirl of wet leaves from the night-hidden trees decorating the little station beat against the closed doors of the carriages. The porter hurried along holding his blear-eyed lantern to the different windows and calling the name of the township in a language peculiar to porters. There was only one ticket to collect."
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