Author: Bill Marsh
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
ISBN: 0730499022
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Charming, funny autobiographical stories from one of Australia's best-loved authors of Australiana. For me, Beckom was one vast playground. From the plover-infested homestead to its dam crawling with yabbies; along the meandering mysteries of the Mirrool Creek; up to the forgotten pine forest; over to the dusty silos of harvest; this was my backyard. I could leave home at sunrise and return ragged at sunset, my heart overflowing with a day of games and adventures. What more does a kid need? In this collection of stories, Bill 'Swampy' Marsh takes us from his childhood in a small outback town in the 1950s and coming of age at an all-boys bush boarding school, to his journey as an adult, when he revisits and reflects on youth by travelling in his father's footsteps through rural Australia.Loveable and eccentric characters are brought to life with humour and affection as we are led through mateship and manhood, cricket and footy, young love and heartbreak, battlers and larrikins, courage and loyalty.these are tales of everyday life in rural Australia. the simple things. the important things ...
Swampy
Author: Bill Marsh
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
ISBN: 0730499022
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Charming, funny autobiographical stories from one of Australia's best-loved authors of Australiana. For me, Beckom was one vast playground. From the plover-infested homestead to its dam crawling with yabbies; along the meandering mysteries of the Mirrool Creek; up to the forgotten pine forest; over to the dusty silos of harvest; this was my backyard. I could leave home at sunrise and return ragged at sunset, my heart overflowing with a day of games and adventures. What more does a kid need? In this collection of stories, Bill 'Swampy' Marsh takes us from his childhood in a small outback town in the 1950s and coming of age at an all-boys bush boarding school, to his journey as an adult, when he revisits and reflects on youth by travelling in his father's footsteps through rural Australia.Loveable and eccentric characters are brought to life with humour and affection as we are led through mateship and manhood, cricket and footy, young love and heartbreak, battlers and larrikins, courage and loyalty.these are tales of everyday life in rural Australia. the simple things. the important things ...
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
ISBN: 0730499022
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Charming, funny autobiographical stories from one of Australia's best-loved authors of Australiana. For me, Beckom was one vast playground. From the plover-infested homestead to its dam crawling with yabbies; along the meandering mysteries of the Mirrool Creek; up to the forgotten pine forest; over to the dusty silos of harvest; this was my backyard. I could leave home at sunrise and return ragged at sunset, my heart overflowing with a day of games and adventures. What more does a kid need? In this collection of stories, Bill 'Swampy' Marsh takes us from his childhood in a small outback town in the 1950s and coming of age at an all-boys bush boarding school, to his journey as an adult, when he revisits and reflects on youth by travelling in his father's footsteps through rural Australia.Loveable and eccentric characters are brought to life with humour and affection as we are led through mateship and manhood, cricket and footy, young love and heartbreak, battlers and larrikins, courage and loyalty.these are tales of everyday life in rural Australia. the simple things. the important things ...
Swampy Alligator
Author: Jack Gantos
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 9780671960926
Category : Alligators
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
An alligator who loves to play in mud and slime is given a birthday bath by his friends.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 9780671960926
Category : Alligators
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
An alligator who loves to play in mud and slime is given a birthday bath by his friends.
A Practical Treatise on Draining Bogs and Swampy Grounds
Author: James Anderson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
A Practical Treatise on Draining Bogs and Swampy Grounds, Illustrated by Figures; with Cursory Remarks Upon the Originality of Mr. Elkington's Mode of Draining
Author: James Anderson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Welcome to the Swamp
Author: Swampy Don
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781736552803
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"Welcome To The Swamp" is a series of politically satirical illustrations and factual headlines that take aim at the absurdly immoral and corrupt administration of Donald J. Trump.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781736552803
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"Welcome To The Swamp" is a series of politically satirical illustrations and factual headlines that take aim at the absurdly immoral and corrupt administration of Donald J. Trump.
Canine Oregon
Author: Lizann Dunegan
Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing
ISBN: 9781555913281
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Dog lovers will delight in this title that covers every dog-related aspect of traveling in Oregon--hiking, biking, and skiing--as well as pooch-friendly hotels, restaurants, and urban hot spots. 50 photos. 8 maps.
Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing
ISBN: 9781555913281
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Dog lovers will delight in this title that covers every dog-related aspect of traveling in Oregon--hiking, biking, and skiing--as well as pooch-friendly hotels, restaurants, and urban hot spots. 50 photos. 8 maps.
Great Australian Outback Teaching Stories
Author: Bill Marsh
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
ISBN: 1460702115
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
From beyond the black stump to the Australian Alps; in schools on stations, missions, mines and over the air, it takes a special kind of person to be an outback teacher. Back then, not only did we have to teach the three Rs but also sewing, arts and craft, music, physical education - you name it. Plus there were the duties of gardener, cleaner, nurse, registrar, office administrator, free milk dispenser, librarian and, on occasions, school bus driver. Oh, and in one school I was even responsible for 'mother craft'. And being male and just nineteen, as I was at the time, you might imagine my surprise when a young girl asked me, 'Sir, what's the best milk for babies?' Master storyteller Bill 'Swampy' Marsh has travelled the width and breadth of Australia to bring together yet another memorable collection of stories. This time he has met with many of our extraordinary outback teachers and their students whose recollections so perfectly capture those special days of growing up in the bush.
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
ISBN: 1460702115
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
From beyond the black stump to the Australian Alps; in schools on stations, missions, mines and over the air, it takes a special kind of person to be an outback teacher. Back then, not only did we have to teach the three Rs but also sewing, arts and craft, music, physical education - you name it. Plus there were the duties of gardener, cleaner, nurse, registrar, office administrator, free milk dispenser, librarian and, on occasions, school bus driver. Oh, and in one school I was even responsible for 'mother craft'. And being male and just nineteen, as I was at the time, you might imagine my surprise when a young girl asked me, 'Sir, what's the best milk for babies?' Master storyteller Bill 'Swampy' Marsh has travelled the width and breadth of Australia to bring together yet another memorable collection of stories. This time he has met with many of our extraordinary outback teachers and their students whose recollections so perfectly capture those special days of growing up in the bush.
Great Australian Outback Trucking Stories
Author: Bill Marsh
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
ISBN: 1460708865
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
'Marsh knows how to spin a yarn' - Gold Coast Bulletin Whether they're carting produce, stock, fuel, or even (unbeknown to them) dead bodies, there's one thing that can be said about outback truckies - they're a colourful bunch. Meet the outback truckies who brave interminable distances, searing heat, raging floodwaters and foot-deep bulldust to transport goods all across this vast land, serving as lifelines not just to those in the bush but those in cities as well. From the truckie who found a creative means of transporting penguins, to the one who refused to 'abandon ship' as his truck sank into a river, these real-life accounts show the lengths to which these enterprising and resourceful men and women will go to ensure their load arrives safely at their destination. Bill 'Swampy' Marsh is an award-winning writer and performer of stories, songs and plays. He spent most of his youth in rural south-western NSW and now lives in Adelaide. Swampy is one of ABC Books' bestselling authors of Australian stories; this is his nineteenth book.
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
ISBN: 1460708865
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
'Marsh knows how to spin a yarn' - Gold Coast Bulletin Whether they're carting produce, stock, fuel, or even (unbeknown to them) dead bodies, there's one thing that can be said about outback truckies - they're a colourful bunch. Meet the outback truckies who brave interminable distances, searing heat, raging floodwaters and foot-deep bulldust to transport goods all across this vast land, serving as lifelines not just to those in the bush but those in cities as well. From the truckie who found a creative means of transporting penguins, to the one who refused to 'abandon ship' as his truck sank into a river, these real-life accounts show the lengths to which these enterprising and resourceful men and women will go to ensure their load arrives safely at their destination. Bill 'Swampy' Marsh is an award-winning writer and performer of stories, songs and plays. He spent most of his youth in rural south-western NSW and now lives in Adelaide. Swampy is one of ABC Books' bestselling authors of Australian stories; this is his nineteenth book.
Pamphlets on Protozoology (Kofoid Collection)
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Swamplandia!
Author: Karen Russell
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307595447
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • The bravely imagined, wildly acclaimed debut novel from the author of Vampires in the Lemon Grove—about a thirteen year old girl who sets out on a mission through magical swamps to save her family. "Ms. Russell is one in a million.... A suspensfuly, deeply haunted book." —The New York Times Thirteen-year-old Ava Bigtree has lived her entire life at Swamplandia!, her family’s island home and gator-wrestling theme park in the Florida Everglades. But when illness fells Ava’s mother, the park’s indomitable headliner, the family is plunged into chaos; her father withdraws, her sister falls in love with a spooky character known as the Dredgeman, and her brilliant big brother, Kiwi, defects to a rival park called The World of Darkness. As Ava embarks on her mission to save them all, we are drawn into a lush debut that takes us to the shimmering edge of reality.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307595447
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • The bravely imagined, wildly acclaimed debut novel from the author of Vampires in the Lemon Grove—about a thirteen year old girl who sets out on a mission through magical swamps to save her family. "Ms. Russell is one in a million.... A suspensfuly, deeply haunted book." —The New York Times Thirteen-year-old Ava Bigtree has lived her entire life at Swamplandia!, her family’s island home and gator-wrestling theme park in the Florida Everglades. But when illness fells Ava’s mother, the park’s indomitable headliner, the family is plunged into chaos; her father withdraws, her sister falls in love with a spooky character known as the Dredgeman, and her brilliant big brother, Kiwi, defects to a rival park called The World of Darkness. As Ava embarks on her mission to save them all, we are drawn into a lush debut that takes us to the shimmering edge of reality.