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My Mate Gidgee

An outback story of hard yakka and humour

by Sandy Thorne ...

Best mates Tom and Gidgee toil and laugh together for decades in the shearing sheds and stockyards of the challenging, semi-arid Western Division of New South Wales. Constantly tested by extremes of nature, their huge capacity for both work and laughter helps them cope with everything that’s thrown at them. ‘My Mate Gidgee’ is an authentic, entertaining, sometimes shocking, often funny, yarn from ... Read more

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Best mates Tom and Gidgee toil and laugh together for decades in the shearing sheds and stockyards of the challenging, semi-arid Western Division of New South Wales. Constantly tested by extremes of nature, their huge capacity for both work and laughter helps them cope with everything that’s thrown at them. ‘My Mate Gidgee’ is an authentic, entertaining, sometimes shocking, often funny, yarn from
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Old-Timers: Magnificent stories from mighty Australians

Magnificent stories from mighty Australians

by Sandy Thorne ...

An earthy, entertaining collection of yarns about twenty larger-than-life outback characters. Meet Ron Canlin, who one day began sculpting the sandstone walls of his opal mine. Ten years later, every drive and tunnel in Ron's claim is full of wonderful sculptures - the eighth wonder of the world. Or Peter Venables, with his flowing white beard, puffing his pipe like a character from the pioneering ... Read more

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An earthy, entertaining collection of yarns about twenty larger-than-life outback characters. Meet Ron Canlin, who one day began sculpting the sandstone walls of his opal mine. Ten years later, every drive and tunnel in Ron's claim is full of wonderful sculptures - the eighth wonder of the world. Or Peter Venables, with his flowing white beard, puffing his pipe like a character from the pioneering
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Living Legends: True Tales of Extraordinary Old-Timers

True Tales of Extraordinary Old-Timers

by Sandy Thorne ...

Meet fourteen remarkable Australian (and one Kiwi!) jacks and jills of all trades with a wealth of experiences from the good old days to modern times. Hailing from all walks of life, they share their memories with renowned yarn spinner Sandy Thorne in a collection of stories full of wisdom and wit.There's Danny, the champion jockey who refuses to ever truly hang up the saddle; 'Dusty', the WW II ... Read more

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Meet fourteen remarkable Australian (and one Kiwi!) jacks and jills of all trades with a wealth of experiences from the good old days to modern times. Hailing from all walks of life, they share their memories with renowned yarn spinner Sandy Thorne in a collection of stories full of wisdom and wit.There's Danny, the champion jockey who refuses to ever truly hang up the saddle; 'Dusty', the WW II
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Battler

by Sandy Thorne ...

Narrated by David Tredinnick ...

Series Audiobook 1 - Battler series
Unabridged

4 hours 47 min

Since launching her first best seller 'I've Met Some Bloody Wags!' by biting the top off a stubbie of beer with her teeth on the Midday Show, Sandy Thorne has spent over 20 years travelling the world and promoting bush humour. The Battler books are based on the hard-as-nails men of the land that called the most remote corners of the Outback their home. Battler O'Brien has been a battler all his ... Read more

$24.99 USD

Since launching her first best seller 'I've Met Some Bloody Wags!' by biting the top off a stubbie of beer with her teeth on the Midday Show, Sandy Thorne has spent over 20 years travelling the world and promoting bush humour. The Battler books are based on the hard-as-nails men of the land that called the most remote corners of the Outback their home. Battler O'Brien has been a battler all his
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Battler's Block

by Sandy Thorne ...

Narrated by David Tredinnick ...

Series Audiobook 2 - Battler series
Unabridged

5 hours 32 min

Since launching her first best seller 'I've Met Some Bloody Wags!' by biting the top off a stubbie of beer with her teeth on the Midday Show, Sandy Thorne has spent over 20 years travelling the world and promoting bush humour. The Battler books are based on the hard-as-nails men of the land that called the most remote corners of the Outback their home. All the hilarious things that happen when the ... Read more

$24.99 USD

Since launching her first best seller 'I've Met Some Bloody Wags!' by biting the top off a stubbie of beer with her teeth on the Midday Show, Sandy Thorne has spent over 20 years travelling the world and promoting bush humour. The Battler books are based on the hard-as-nails men of the land that called the most remote corners of the Outback their home. All the hilarious things that happen when the
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Battler Goes to the Gold Coast

by Sandy Thorne ...

Narrated by David Tredinnick ...

Series Audiobook 3 - Battler series
Unabridged

5 hours 52 min

Since launching her first best seller 'I've Met Some Bloody Wags!' by biting the top off a stubbie of beer with her teeth on the Midday Show, Sandy Thorne has spent over 20 years travelling the world and promoting bush humour. The Battler books are based on the hard-as-nails men of the land that called the most remote corners of the Outback their home. Battler O'Brien, from way out back of Bourke, ... Read more

$24.99 USD

Since launching her first best seller 'I've Met Some Bloody Wags!' by biting the top off a stubbie of beer with her teeth on the Midday Show, Sandy Thorne has spent over 20 years travelling the world and promoting bush humour. The Battler books are based on the hard-as-nails men of the land that called the most remote corners of the Outback their home. Battler O'Brien, from way out back of Bourke,
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The Squatters

The story of Australia's pastoral pioneers

by Barry Stone ...

Fascinating stories of the indomitable men and women who established the first cattle and sheep properties that became the foundation of a prosperous nation.'A very readable history of an important group of Australian pioneers' - Graham Seal, author of the bestselling Great Australian StoriesFor the early settlers who came from Britain's crowded cities and tiny villages, it must have been ... Read more

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Fascinating stories of the indomitable men and women who established the first cattle and sheep properties that became the foundation of a prosperous nation.'A very readable history of an important group of Australian pioneers' - Graham Seal, author of the bestselling Great Australian StoriesFor the early settlers who came from Britain's crowded cities and tiny villages, it must have been
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Great Australian Droving Stories

by Bill Marsh ...

Series series Great Australian Stories
the world of the Australian drover is almost forgotten. In this book we hear of the men (and women) who travelled vast distances along Australia's stock routes. Bill 'Swampy' Marsh travelled around Australia gathering their stories.Before utes, planes and helicopters, mustering and droving were done by a group of men who, on horseback, would move thousands of head of cattle and sheep vast ... Read more

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the world of the Australian drover is almost forgotten. In this book we hear of the men (and women) who travelled vast distances along Australia's stock routes. Bill 'Swampy' Marsh travelled around Australia gathering their stories.Before utes, planes and helicopters, mustering and droving were done by a group of men who, on horseback, would move thousands of head of cattle and sheep vast
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The Nullarbor Kid

Stories from my trucking life

by Ray Gilleland ...

He was a pioneer trucker in postwar Australia - a time when outback roads were little more than corrugated dirt goat tracks. This is a story of vast distances, ill-equipped machines, heat and dust, humour and mateship.'If you had worked with them, if you had driven with them, if you had had a drink with them, if you helped them when broken down, you would have been proud to be one of them and ... Read more

$9.59 USD

He was a pioneer trucker in postwar Australia - a time when outback roads were little more than corrugated dirt goat tracks. This is a story of vast distances, ill-equipped machines, heat and dust, humour and mateship.'If you had worked with them, if you had driven with them, if you had had a drink with them, if you helped them when broken down, you would have been proud to be one of them and
... Read more
Bad Characters

by Peter Stanley ...

Australians have celebrated the Anzacs for nearly a century--but what do we really know of what war did to them? Charles Bean, historian of the citizen soldiers of the Australian Imperial Force, wrote that its history spanned 'the good and the bad'--but so far Australians have only looked at the good.Leading war historian Peter Stanley reveals the citizen soldiers the army regarded as its 'bad ... Read more

$11.19 USD

Australians have celebrated the Anzacs for nearly a century--but what do we really know of what war did to them? Charles Bean, historian of the citizen soldiers of the Australian Imperial Force, wrote that its history spanned 'the good and the bad'--but so far Australians have only looked at the good.Leading war historian Peter Stanley reveals the citizen soldiers the army regarded as its 'bad
... Read more
Charles Kingsford Smith and Those Magnificent Men

by Peter FitzSimons ...

The must-read story of the boy from Brisbane who became a wartime hero and aviation trailblazer.In an action-packed life, the indomitable 'Smithy' went from fighting as a soldier amid the carnage of Gallipoli and the Western Front to taking to the skies against the likes of the Red Baron - for which he won the Military Cross for gallantry - before becoming the greatest peacetime aviator of his ... Read more

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The must-read story of the boy from Brisbane who became a wartime hero and aviation trailblazer.In an action-packed life, the indomitable 'Smithy' went from fighting as a soldier amid the carnage of Gallipoli and the Western Front to taking to the skies against the likes of the Red Baron - for which he won the Military Cross for gallantry - before becoming the greatest peacetime aviator of his
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A Swag of Memories

Australian bush stories

by Brian Taylor ...

A quintessential Australian bushman, Brian Taylor has spent most of his life on the land. Working as a drover, a stockman, a fencer, a shearer and a saddler, he has gathered a swag of stories over the years as he travelled way out past the Barcoo, along the dusty plains and beside the dry creek beds under the endless southern sky.In A SWAG OF MEMORIES Brian Taylor shares with us these stories, of ... Read more

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A quintessential Australian bushman, Brian Taylor has spent most of his life on the land. Working as a drover, a stockman, a fencer, a shearer and a saddler, he has gathered a swag of stories over the years as he travelled way out past the Barcoo, along the dusty plains and beside the dry creek beds under the endless southern sky.In A SWAG OF MEMORIES Brian Taylor shares with us these stories, of
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