Skip to main content

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


peter whitehead

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “peter whitehead
Skip side bar filters
  • Bwana, There's a Body in the Bath!

    Born in Shanghai and shipped to England as a child, Peter Whitehead then made his way to Australia, solo, at the age of 13 in 1938, in order to save his family money.Alone and working in near slave-like conditions as a farm labourer, Peter learned the art of breaking wild horses and so began a lifelong love affair with animals.After wartime service as a horse breaker for the army and a gunner on a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Culture, Ecology and Economy of Fire Management in North Australian Savannas

    Rekindling the Wurrk Tradition

    This engaging volume explores the management of fire in one of the world’s most flammable landscapes: Australia’s tropical savannas, where on average 18% of the landscape is burned annually. Impacts have been particularly severe in the Arnhem Land Plateau, a centre of plant and animal diversity on Indigenous land. Culture, Ecology and Economy of Fire Management in North Australian Savannas ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • Audiobook

    Bwana, There's a Body in the Bath!

    Narrated by Humphrey Bower ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 51 min

    Born in Shanghai and shipped to England as a child, Peter Whitehead then made his way to Australia, solo, at the age of 13 in 1938, in order to save his family money. Alone and working in near slave-like conditions as a farm labourer, Whitehead learned the art of breaking wild horses and so began a lifelong love affair with animals. After wartime service as a horse breaker for the army and a ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • The Protector

    by Tony Park ...
    Professor Denise ‘Doc’ Rado is South Africa’s expert on pangolins, busting poachers and freeing the endangered anteaters in elaborate undercover stings.After a risky operation backfires, Doc’s life is shattered, but she still has to lead an eclectic group of donors on a wildlife tour of southern Africa.But there’s a target on her back.As the safari ventures deep into Africa, Doc fears they’re ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Die by the Sword

    by Tony Park ...
    The South African Number 1 Fiction bestsellerThree bodies are found scattered across South Africa. One on the shores of the Indian Ocean, one in a farm invasion in modern KwaZulu-Natal, and one in 1880, in the aftermath of the Anglo-Zulu War.Detective Sannie van Rensburg and marine biologist and former soldier Adam Kruger are each on the trail of a mystery, while more than a century ago colonial ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • African Sky

    by Tony Park ...
    Series Book 1 - The Story of Zimbabwe
    An epic wartime adventure in the heart of Africa.Rhodesia, 1943: Paul Bryant hasn’t been able to get back in an aircraft since a fatal bombing mission over Germany. Instead, the Squadron Leader is flying a desk at a pilot training school in Africa when one of his trainees is reported missing.Pip Lovejoy, a volunteer policewoman, is also trying to suppress painful memories. When Felicity Langham, a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fire on the Horizon

    AN EPIC NOVEL OF WAR AND FAMILY FROM THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING MASTER OF ADVENTURE

    A BATTLE FOR THE HEART OF A COUNTRY AT WAR WITH ITSELFPraise for Wilbur Smith'A master storyteller' Sunday Times'No one does adventure quite like Smith' Daily Mirror'Best historical novelist' Stephen KingSouth Africa, 1899 - the smouldering hostility between the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State and the British colonies of the Cape and Na... ... Read more

    $9.59 USD

  • The Pride

    by Tony Park ...
    Series Book 5 - Sonja Kurtz series
    Ex-mercenary Sonja Kurtz is out for revenge after her daughter Emma is assaulted by an abalone poacher while on a beachside holiday near Cape Town.When the poacher is murdered, Sonja is targeted by a violent local gangster and must flee the country.As Sonja leaves a trail of destruction in her wake – from the threatened wilderness of Zimbabwe to the treacherous beaches of northern Mozambique – a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Empty Coast

    by Tony Park ...
    Series Book 2 - Sonja Kurtz series
    A body from an old war and a missing girl bring retired mercenary Sonja Kurtz home to Africa's deadly Skeleton Coast.Sonja Kurtz – former soldier, supposedly retired mercenary - is in Vietnam carrying out a personal revenge mission when her daughter sends a call for help.Emma, a student archaeologist, on a dig at the edge of Namibia’s Etosha National Park has discovered a body dating back to the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Captive

    by Tony Park ...
    A woman's quest to save Africa's wildlife turns lethal.A very eager - and rather naive - Australian lawyer, Kerry Maxwell, flies into South Africa to volunteer at a wildlife orphanage run by notorious vet, Graham Baird.Graham is as jaded and reckless as Kerry is law-abiding and optimistic. When Kerry arrives at the animal sanctuary it's to the news that Graham is imprisoned in Mozambique following ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Global Disgovernance of Sustainability

    Sustainability as a new value is a process that, in many aspects, is only beginning. It is based, however, on a path of more than four decades. This book aims to present the exact course of this story, its advances and retreats, as well as the traps that have prevented the building of a global governance of sustainable development. José Eli da Veiga, professor at the University of São Paulo ... Read more

    $6.20 USD

  • Understories

    The Political Life of Forests in Northern New Mexico

    by Jake Kosek ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    Through lively, engaging narrative, Understories demonstrates how volatile politics of race, class, and nation animate the notoriously violent struggles over forests in the southwestern United States. Rather than reproduce traditional understandings of nature and environment, Jake Kosek shifts the focus toward material and symbolic “natures,” seemingly unchangeable essences central to formations ... Read more

    $22.29 USD