Six Months Off: An American Family's Australian Adventure (G K Hall Large Print Book Series) Now in paper is the story of two-term governor of Tennessee Lamar Alexander who took off for a six-month odyssey in Australia with his family the day he left office--despite the objections of his colleagues and children. Warner Brothers Television has p... Manufacturer: G. K. Hall & Company
$17.95
Nightmare in Laos: The True Story of a Woman Imprisoned in a Communist Gulag Hours after her husband, Kerry, was kidnapped by the Communist Laos government, Kay Danes tried to flee to Thailand with her two youngest children, only to be intercepted at the border. Torn from them and sent to a communist prison, it was then that the... Manufacturer: Maverick House
$10.66
In Good Company On Friday 8th March 1968, 20 year old Gary McKay lost the lottery - he was conscripted. From a comfortable and carefree life of surfing and rugby football, he was drafted into the deadly serious preparation for war in the jungles of South Vietnam. "In G... Manufacturer: Allen & Unwin Australia
David's boyhood dreams of flying led him to England for months of training to be a bomber pilot in World War II at age 19, but his final flight was a nightmare. Seconds after the bombs were released, David was wounded in five places and his fe... Manufacturer: Allen & Unwin
$5.95
An All Consuming Passion: Origins, Modernity, and the Australian Life of Georgiana Molloy Set against the magnificent backdrop of Australia's geological, human, and natural history, An All Consuming Passion is the story of amateur botanist Georgiana Molloy. In 1829 she married a retired Army captain and emigrated from Scotland to the ... Manufacturer: University of California Press
This personal account of Terry O'Farrell's career as an SAS soldier vividly captures not only the military actions of his time in Vietnam, but the human aspects of surviving the intense selection process and training to dealing with the ever-presen... Manufacturer: Allen & Unwin
$14.91 - $22.95
Australian Popular Culture (Australian Cultural Studies) This book is an exciting collection of essays bringing together new perspectives on the nature and meaning of Australia's changing life. Authors represent a range of approaches, backgrounds and fields to explore subjects of wide interest. Chapters are d... Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
$22.00 - $39.99
The Politics of Australian Child Care: From Philanthropy to Feminism Child care is a political issue of increasing importance to governments, unions, employers and parents. Once provided by charitable groups and available only to those deemed underprivileged, issues surrounding the provision of child care have now become... Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
$43.41 - $64.95
Wings of Destiny: Wing Commander Charles Learmonth DFC and Bar and the Air War in New Guinea Wing Commander Charles Learmonth, DFC and Bar, was a well-known flyer in World War 2, who was based in Pearce, Western Australia, and involved in the air search for HMAS Sydney. He fought in the skies of New Guinea, flying a twin-engine Boston attack bo... Manufacturer: Rosenberg Publishing
$19.09 - $35.00
My Place This powerful autobiography of three generations of Aborigines by one of their own is an "historical document which should be on every black studies and women's studies course round the world . . . a wonderfully luminous and entertaining prose poem."--N... Manufacturer: Little Brown & Co (P)
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