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“jim eames”

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  • The Flying Kangaroo

    Great Untold Stories of Qantas...The Heroic, the Hilarious and the Sometimes Just Plain Strange

    by Jim Eames ...
    Brings to full and rich life the extraordinary characters, events and challenges that have made Qantas an Australian icon.From its earliest days, Qantas has attracted its fair share of unusual challenges and unique characters. These are the stories of a great airline and the people who made it, told by a man who has Qantas blood running through his veins. They are hilarious, nostalgic, heroic and ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Courage in the Skies

    The untold story of Qantas, its brave men and women and their extraordinary role in World War II

    by Jim Eames ...
    This is the extraordinary and little known story of Qantas' significant role during World War II, particularly in its campaigns against the Japanese.Between 1942 and 1943, Qantas lost eight aircraft during its involvement in Australia's war against the Japanese. Over sixty passengers and crew died as a result. Yet Qantas' exemplary contribution to Australia's war effort and the courage of its ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Red Tail Skies

    A big book of Qantas Stories

    by Jim Eames ...
    Heroic, hilarious and sometimes just plain weird . . . Jim Eames shares great Qantas stories from World War II to the age of the jumbo and beyond.**'These are stories of passion and dedication, of risk and resilience, of excellence and Australian larrikinism, of inventiveness and determination.' Captain Richard Champion de Crespigny on The Flying Kangaroo'Jim Eames captures the experiences of a ... Read more

    Was $13.99 USD Now $10.99 USD

  • The Mighty 747

    Australia's Queen of the Skies

    by Jim Eames ...
    The world's most iconic commercial aircraft, the Boeing 747, and its Australian story.'We have decided we must have the 747.' - Bert Ritchie, Qantas Chief Executive, 1967From its first Qantas flight in 1971, the Boeing 747 flew millions of people to Australia, overseas for work, back to their homelands, on holiday and out of danger. For most Australians, the 747 was their first experience of ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Taking to the Skies

    Daredevils, heroes and hijackings, great Australian flying stories

    by Jim Eames ...
    So how do you test drive a Jumbo? And why did a future civil aviation director once taxi a plane down Perth's main street to attend a ball?From the ridiculous to the downright dangerous, the story of Australian aviation is full of tales of adventure and nation building. It is also a story about tragedy and eccentric characters with wild larrikin spirits.In this surprising, fascinating and ... Read more

    $9.59 USD

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  • Gotta Love This Country!

    Great stories from around Australia to lift your heart, make you laugh and puff out your chest

    by Peter FitzSimons ...
    A celebration of chest puffing goodness and kindness from around the country written in inimitable Peter FitzSimon's style.You gotta love this country when an AFL legend takes his mum instead of his girlfriend to the Brownlow, when an Australian cricket captain joins a bunch of fourteen year olds for a bit of street cricket, when a bloke wins the Australian Marbles Championship after being ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Great Australian Outback Police Stories

    by Bill Marsh ...
    Series series Great Australian Stories
    Yarns and memories that capture the experience of policing in the bush, gathered by the inimitable Bill 'Swampy' Marsh, bestselling author of GREAT AUSTRALIAN FLYING DOCTOR STORIES and GREAT AUSTRALIAN CWA STORIES.'I tell you, you meet some strange characters in this game ...'Boasting the biggest beats in the world -- some as large as France -- Australia's outback police have seen it all: natural ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Outback Cop

    by Evan McHugh, Neale McShane ...
    Birdsville is one of the most remote police postings in Australia. It can be lonely and uneventful for weeks, then the dramas come thick and fast: from desert rescues to rising floods, venomous vipers to visiting VIPs.Throw in heat, dust and flies and it’s not a job for the faint-hearted, unless you’re Senior Constable Neale McShane, who has single-handedly taken care of a beat the size of ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Complete Book of Australian Flying Doctor Stories

    by Bill Marsh ...
    For the first time, Bill Marsh's terrific collection of outback yarns centred on the Royal Flying Doctor Service are available in one bumper volume.the Royal Flying Doctor Service is a unique icon of Australian culture. Since its beginnings with the Reverend John Flynn in 1928, the RFDS has helped build our nation. the Flying Doctors, and the remote stations and communities that they serve, have ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Australia's Best Unknown Stories

    and tales you thought you knew...

    by Jim Haynes ...
    From remote outback and cattle stations to coastal towns comes a collection of amazing, eccentric and funny Australian stories, yarns and furphies - most completely unknown along with some you thought you knew.'Not only are there many things we don't know, we should never be too sure about the things we are sure we do know.'From Jim Haynes, one of our most successful and prolific tellers of yarns ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Joe's Fruit Shop & Milk Bar

    by Zoe Boccabella ...
    A captivating true story that will speak to generations of Australians, from the author of Mezza Italiana.'Nonno Anni gives me a nudge. "You know, when I first came to Australia, I knew that my life would change forever."'Leaving the small village of Fossa in Italy in 1939 to meet a father he barely remembered in a place that was far from everything he knew, fifteen-year-old Annibale Boccabella ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Mailman of the Birdsville Track

    The story of Tom Kruse

    by Kristin Weidenbach ...
    The truly classic Australian story of Tom Kruse - legendary mailman of the Birdsville Track.For the people who lived in the desert between Marree and Birdsville, contact with the outside world was hard and sporadic - but one man was their lifeline: Tom Kruse. For more than twenty years he was the connection with the outside world for the families, station workers and others who lived along the ... Read more

    Was $10.99 USD Now $6.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook