Author: Steve Parker
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1105860264
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Life begins when you join the oil field. But there was life before that. JC challenged the highway stormtroopers of a Distant Queensland Town on a Daring Mission - Where a Thirst for Life Became overridden by the Power of Beer! Farm chores sure could be dull, and JC was bored beyond belief. He yearned for adventures in the outback - and adventures that would take him beyond the farthest shores to distant and icy landscapes. But JC got more than he bargained for when he was intercepted by a QLD police officer and given a cryptic ultimatum to leave a beautiful town operating under a dark and powerful authority. JC didn't know why this was, but he knew he had to save himself - and soon, because time was running out. Armed only with courage and with the skills taught to him by his father, JC was catapulted into the middle of the most dangerous deep-sea drilling platforms ever...and he was headed straight for a desperate encounter on the Russian Nogliki station many know as the Death Star!
From Driller to Bullcatcher
Author: Steve Parker
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1105860264
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Life begins when you join the oil field. But there was life before that. JC challenged the highway stormtroopers of a Distant Queensland Town on a Daring Mission - Where a Thirst for Life Became overridden by the Power of Beer! Farm chores sure could be dull, and JC was bored beyond belief. He yearned for adventures in the outback - and adventures that would take him beyond the farthest shores to distant and icy landscapes. But JC got more than he bargained for when he was intercepted by a QLD police officer and given a cryptic ultimatum to leave a beautiful town operating under a dark and powerful authority. JC didn't know why this was, but he knew he had to save himself - and soon, because time was running out. Armed only with courage and with the skills taught to him by his father, JC was catapulted into the middle of the most dangerous deep-sea drilling platforms ever...and he was headed straight for a desperate encounter on the Russian Nogliki station many know as the Death Star!
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1105860264
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Life begins when you join the oil field. But there was life before that. JC challenged the highway stormtroopers of a Distant Queensland Town on a Daring Mission - Where a Thirst for Life Became overridden by the Power of Beer! Farm chores sure could be dull, and JC was bored beyond belief. He yearned for adventures in the outback - and adventures that would take him beyond the farthest shores to distant and icy landscapes. But JC got more than he bargained for when he was intercepted by a QLD police officer and given a cryptic ultimatum to leave a beautiful town operating under a dark and powerful authority. JC didn't know why this was, but he knew he had to save himself - and soon, because time was running out. Armed only with courage and with the skills taught to him by his father, JC was catapulted into the middle of the most dangerous deep-sea drilling platforms ever...and he was headed straight for a desperate encounter on the Russian Nogliki station many know as the Death Star!
From Bullcatcher to Driller
Author: Steve Parker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781326189754
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
JC has just about done everything in the name of adventure: Getting pulled over by the cops - and asked to leave town -several times! Cornering unhappy bulls in Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia, recruited as a roughneck with no offshore experience, hired as a general dog's body on his first drilling rig off the Indian Ocean catching light-lovin' turtles, drilling RC Way in the Great Sandy Desert where the flies are so thick personnel are asked not to take a dump before meal times, for fear the flies will next land on your food, drinking bouts with rig pigs while Cyclone evaluations clock up time over Darwin and even encounters with giant Singapore rats. From screw-ups because of piss ups to punch-ups because of pub brawls, JC is proud to confirm that despite massive containers sliding around the deck of a platform at night, and a container hanging off the sides of a rig, never a day was lost drilling... "Massive experience on jack ups and semis, the only thing JC has left to do is man a drillship!"
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781326189754
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
JC has just about done everything in the name of adventure: Getting pulled over by the cops - and asked to leave town -several times! Cornering unhappy bulls in Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia, recruited as a roughneck with no offshore experience, hired as a general dog's body on his first drilling rig off the Indian Ocean catching light-lovin' turtles, drilling RC Way in the Great Sandy Desert where the flies are so thick personnel are asked not to take a dump before meal times, for fear the flies will next land on your food, drinking bouts with rig pigs while Cyclone evaluations clock up time over Darwin and even encounters with giant Singapore rats. From screw-ups because of piss ups to punch-ups because of pub brawls, JC is proud to confirm that despite massive containers sliding around the deck of a platform at night, and a container hanging off the sides of a rig, never a day was lost drilling... "Massive experience on jack ups and semis, the only thing JC has left to do is man a drillship!"
Riding With Giants
Author: Peter Holmes a Court
Publisher: Penguin Group Australia
ISBN: 1743484275
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
International businessman Peter Holmes à Court left the executive world and found himself living deep in rural France with only his seven-year-old twin girls for company. Peter was struggling as a single father in a foreign country - unsettled by the sudden move away from a traditional job, and completely baffled by the society around him. His only plan: to ride L'Etape du Tour, the challenging amateur leg of the Tour de France. In an effort to find some new friends in the community - and a bike for the race - he discovered the region's small bicycle factory. He was soon spending his days there: photographing his custom bike being built, meeting the locals, and learning about the rich traditions of artisan craftsmanship. Trying to enjoy the simple things and become a better father, Peter slowed down, and started to reflect seriously on history, industry and the structure of our modern economy. He and his daughters finally began to put down roots and understand the beauty and calm of a small-scale existence – and a very different approach to excellence and the well-lived life. This is one man's compelling, informative and funny story about the wisdom of children, the nature of work today, and the science of bicycles.
Publisher: Penguin Group Australia
ISBN: 1743484275
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
International businessman Peter Holmes à Court left the executive world and found himself living deep in rural France with only his seven-year-old twin girls for company. Peter was struggling as a single father in a foreign country - unsettled by the sudden move away from a traditional job, and completely baffled by the society around him. His only plan: to ride L'Etape du Tour, the challenging amateur leg of the Tour de France. In an effort to find some new friends in the community - and a bike for the race - he discovered the region's small bicycle factory. He was soon spending his days there: photographing his custom bike being built, meeting the locals, and learning about the rich traditions of artisan craftsmanship. Trying to enjoy the simple things and become a better father, Peter slowed down, and started to reflect seriously on history, industry and the structure of our modern economy. He and his daughters finally began to put down roots and understand the beauty and calm of a small-scale existence – and a very different approach to excellence and the well-lived life. This is one man's compelling, informative and funny story about the wisdom of children, the nature of work today, and the science of bicycles.
Diesel Equipment Superintendent
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Category : Diesel motor
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category : Diesel motor
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
Diesel Power and Diesel Transportation
Author:
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ISBN:
Category : Diesel motor
Languages : en
Pages : 1264
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Diesel motor
Languages : en
Pages : 1264
Book Description
Diesel Power & Diesel Transportation
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ISBN:
Category : Diesel motor
Languages : en
Pages : 1272
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category : Diesel motor
Languages : en
Pages : 1272
Book Description
And Some Found Graves
Author: John Aspinall
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780859051866
Category : Gold miners
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Book Description
Record of a young prospector who travelled from New Zealand to the Mt Margaret goldfields of Western Australia in February 1895, and who died, struck by lightning, in March 1896. Includes a brief biographical introduction by the editor who found the diary by chance while prospecting at Hawks Nest in the Mt Margaret goldfields in 1980.
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ISBN: 9780859051866
Category : Gold miners
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Book Description
Record of a young prospector who travelled from New Zealand to the Mt Margaret goldfields of Western Australia in February 1895, and who died, struck by lightning, in March 1896. Includes a brief biographical introduction by the editor who found the diary by chance while prospecting at Hawks Nest in the Mt Margaret goldfields in 1980.
Australia Twice Traversed
Author: Ernest Giles
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Spinifex and Sand
Author: David Wynford Carnegie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coolgardie Region (W.A.)
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Pt. 2, p.35-36; Near Mount Quinn, brush fences set up to trap wallabies, native grave described; p.47-53; Water holes at Mount Luck, native camps; Pt. 5; Notes on previous explorers in the interior; employment of natives by expeditions; Native taken prisoner to act as guide to find water (Victoria Desert); Empress Spring - native camps, native cairns, 8 words listed with meanings; native well near Browne Range; Camp - implements - bark coolamons, wells, wind-breaks, camp lay-out, grindstones, yam sticks, plant foods; kurdaitcha shoes found; physical appearance of natives; method of cooking kangaroo rats, lizards; pearl shell pubic covering traded from coast 500 miles distant, firesticks carried, sporrans or tassels made of various materials; Chap. 11; Natives encountered at Wilsons Cliffs, searching for water, manufacture of chewing ball - native tobacoo; Helena Spring, 7 native words with meanings; Chap. 13; Shelter described, native with scarifications and painted body; native wells; spears, wommeras, shields and short throwing sticks carried by natives (near Southesk Tablelands); native village near Mount Ernest, wurlies, pronounced Jewish features of Aborigines, hair style; Chap. 17; Creek Aborigines treatment of prisoners - chains used; description od corroboree (Emu), body decoration; Appendix to pt. 5; Diagrams and description of weapons; Spears Kimberley and Desert - method of throwing; wommera; tomahawks - Desert; boomerangs; clubs and throwing sticks; shields, quartz knife, ceremonial sticks; rain-making boards, message sticks; brief notes on marriage laws (with tables); p.372; Method of catching ducks; p.374; 12 words with meanings from Sturt Creek area; p.380-411; Encounters with natives west of Mount Webb - wells, notes on trading.
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Category : Coolgardie Region (W.A.)
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Pt. 2, p.35-36; Near Mount Quinn, brush fences set up to trap wallabies, native grave described; p.47-53; Water holes at Mount Luck, native camps; Pt. 5; Notes on previous explorers in the interior; employment of natives by expeditions; Native taken prisoner to act as guide to find water (Victoria Desert); Empress Spring - native camps, native cairns, 8 words listed with meanings; native well near Browne Range; Camp - implements - bark coolamons, wells, wind-breaks, camp lay-out, grindstones, yam sticks, plant foods; kurdaitcha shoes found; physical appearance of natives; method of cooking kangaroo rats, lizards; pearl shell pubic covering traded from coast 500 miles distant, firesticks carried, sporrans or tassels made of various materials; Chap. 11; Natives encountered at Wilsons Cliffs, searching for water, manufacture of chewing ball - native tobacoo; Helena Spring, 7 native words with meanings; Chap. 13; Shelter described, native with scarifications and painted body; native wells; spears, wommeras, shields and short throwing sticks carried by natives (near Southesk Tablelands); native village near Mount Ernest, wurlies, pronounced Jewish features of Aborigines, hair style; Chap. 17; Creek Aborigines treatment of prisoners - chains used; description od corroboree (Emu), body decoration; Appendix to pt. 5; Diagrams and description of weapons; Spears Kimberley and Desert - method of throwing; wommera; tomahawks - Desert; boomerangs; clubs and throwing sticks; shields, quartz knife, ceremonial sticks; rain-making boards, message sticks; brief notes on marriage laws (with tables); p.372; Method of catching ducks; p.374; 12 words with meanings from Sturt Creek area; p.380-411; Encounters with natives west of Mount Webb - wells, notes on trading.
A Camelman on the Canning
Author: Claude Heppingstone
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780859055376
Category : Artesian wells
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This a comprehensive history of the construction of the Canning Stock Route compiled from the diary of Claude Heppingstone, a cameleer. This is the only known daily report of events during the construction of the stock route.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780859055376
Category : Artesian wells
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This a comprehensive history of the construction of the Canning Stock Route compiled from the diary of Claude Heppingstone, a cameleer. This is the only known daily report of events during the construction of the stock route.