Author: Tim the Yowie Man
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781740510783
Category : Adventure and adventurers
Languages : en
Pages : 299
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"A snooping expert of major proportion...with all the zeal of a dingo on heat!" - New Weekly Magazine "...His colourful tales make for great reading" - Access Hollywood "Australia's greatest mystery hunter" - Sunday Telegraph The truth is not the only thing out there...So is Tim the Yowie Man! So named after spotting a yowie (an Australian "bigfoot") in the rugged Snowy Mountains of Australia, Tim the Yowie Man is a mystery investigator and "cryptonaturalist" who is fast becoming the world's pre-eminent authority on strange and bizarre phenomena... Tim can be best described as Fox Mulder from the X-Files meets the Bushtucker Man. From his headquarters located in the heart of the nation's capital, Canberra, Tim travels extensively around Australia and the world to investigate hidden or unnatural and natural phenomena. Poltergeist in the pantry? Bunyip in the basement? That's right - if anything bizarre has happened in the world, Tim is first on the scene to investigate and validate. Tim is also a merry prankster and agent provocateur. His most audacious exploit to date was gate-crashing the filming of the US "Survivor II" series in outback Qld. His daring stunt of dropping chocolate bars from a helicopter to the show's contestants, as well as posting a map divulging the secret location of the "Survivor II" site on his personal website incited an international media frenzy and much gnashing of teeth from CBS TV executives. Receiving some1.5 million daily hits to his website, articles in the Australian and international press (from the New York Post to The Washington Post), scores of radio and TV interviews as well as a spot as guest commentator for "Survivor II" on Access Hollywood,Tim the Yowie Man became an instant larrikin sensation. The Adventures of Tim the Yowie Man is jam-packed with more than a dozen classic, spooky and kooky adventures including: * Illegally trespassing on the top secret set of the "Survivor II" TV series - chartering a chopper and dropping chocolate bars on the show's contestants as outraged producers and TV execs race about in a panic and later threaten to sue Tim's shorts off... * Diving in the murky depths of the Loch Ness in search of Nessie * Trekking in the Swiss Alps Valley of Lotschental on the trail of the Hairy Man * Struggling with the Hawaiian Lava Tubes Pig Monster * Fending off an attack from an aggressive rock ape at the Rock of Gibraltar * Coming face to face with a Tasmanian tiger in the vast wilds of western Tasmania * Searching for the mysterious Min Min Lights in central Australia All this and much, much more as Tim the Yowie Man investigates those stories that upon hearing you think to yourself, "that can't possibly be true...Or can it?"
Author: Arthur James Wells
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 1896
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Author: Eamon Evans
Publisher: Hachette Australia
ISBN: 0733635598
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 181
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The stories behind Australia's many, many strange, inappropriate and downright hilarious place names. From Dismal Swamp to Useless Loop, Intercourse Island to Dead Mans Gully, Mount Buggery to Nowhere Else, Australia has some of the strangest, funniest, weirdest and most out-of-place names going - now described and explained in one humorous and fascinating book. Australia's vast spaces and irreverent, larrikin history have given us some of the best place names in the world. Ranging from the less than positive (Linger and Die Hill, NSW), to the indelicate (Scented Knob, WA), the idiotic (Eggs and Bacon Bay, TAS) to the inappropriate and the just plain fascinating, MOUNT BUGGERY TO NOWHERE ELSE is a toponymical journey through this nation of weird and wonderful places. 'A hilarious and unusual tour of Australia and its history.' DAILY TELEGRAPH
Author: Robert C. Robinson
Publisher: SCB Distributors
ISBN: 1948803356
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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Look outside the box and go on the ultimate adventure! Enter the exciting world of myth and monsters, the paranormal, UFOs and extraterrestrials, lost treasures and mysterious places. Robert Robinson presents this epic guide to the stranger sites around the world and gives you some valuable pointers on legend tripping around the planet. There are large hairy creatures roaming all parts of the world like the Yeti, the yeren, the Alma, and the wildman to name few. England might be the most haunted country in the world but there are haunted places in every part of the world that include castles, old prisons and hotels. Visit places that have a reputation for not only being haunted, but cursed as well. Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) are not just seen in the US, but are a worldwide phenomenon, with people from all over looking toward the skies. There are still hundreds of lost treasures in the world, just waiting to be discovered, and you might be the one to find them. The world is full of mysteries of the unexplained and this book will show you not only where to go, but what to take with you. A great compendium of travel advice and weird sites!
Author: John Pickrell
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231543395
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 359
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“A tour de force…highlights the odd reptiles that roamed all corners of the earth millions of years ago.”—Sydney Morning Herald From the outback of Australia to the Gobi Desert of Mongolia and the savanna of Madagascar, the award-winning science writer and dinosaur enthusiast John Pickrell embarks on a world tour of new finds, meeting the fossil hunters who work at the frontier of discovery. He reveals the dwarf dinosaurs unearthed by an eccentric Transylvanian baron; an aquatic, crocodile-snouted carnivore bigger than T. rex that once lurked in North African waterways; a Chinese dinosaur with wings like a bat; and a Patagonian sauropod so enormous it weighed more than two commercial jet airliners. Other surprising discoveries hail from Alaska, Siberia, Canada, Burma, and South Africa. Why did dinosaurs grow so huge? How did they spread across the world? Did they all have feathers? What do sauropods have in common with 1950s vacuum cleaners? The stuff of adventure movies and scientific revolutions, Weird Dinosaurs examines the latest breakthroughs and new technologies that are radically transforming our understanding of the distant past. “This history of the discovery of some of the most outlandish creatures that ever lived, and the excitement of paleontological research, will be sure to both entertain and instruct.”—Spencer Lucas, author of Dinosaurs: The Textbook, Sixth Edition “Fascinating.... Readers learn of beautiful opalised dinosaur bones from Australia and a crested dinosaur found approximately 13,000 feet up Antarctica's Mt. Kirkpatrick, demonstrating that dinosaurs were widely distributed across the globe.”—Publishers Weekly
Author: Tim the Yowie Man
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780992506124
Category : Australian Capital Territory
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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"Cautiously, step by step, I creep down the small white ladder that leads from a trapdoor hidden beneath a bed in room 92 at Duntroon's Cork Block. After just five rungs I reach the bottom.""Water plunges 40 metres off the cliff top with so much gusto that the morning sun rising upstream creates a rainbow through the water spray. It reaches from one side of the falls to the other. Overhead, a lone wedge-tailed eagle, flirting on the updrafts, is dwarfed by the gaping gorge that opens up like a giant's yawn in the ancient landscape below."Waxing lyrical about everything from the windswept rocky crags of the high country to ghost hunting at the Bredbo Inn, Tim the Yowie Man is certainly not your average travel writer. Tim the Yowie Man is also a well known Canberra identity, mystery investigator, sometime radio host, history and ghost tour guide and the National Museum of Australia's 'resident cryptonaturalist'.In the Spirit of Banjo brings together a collection of some of his articles published in The Canberra Times, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Brisbane Times. In the Spirit of Banjo follows Tim's adventures from the nation's capital, to the Southern Highlands, the Snowy Mountains, the Southern Tablelands and the beautiful South Coast of New South Wales where he explores rugged mountain ranges, haunted lighthouses, stunning waterfalls, and other little known historical, ecological and environmental gems. If you are a fan of Tim the Yowie Man then this book is definitely for you, and even if you're not, you will find the words held within these pages compelling to the point that you too may want to follow in the footsteps of the Yowie Man. Who knows what you will find?In the Spirit of Banjo is Tim's guide to Canberra and beyond.
Author: Craig Sheather
Publisher: Australian Geographic
ISBN: 9781922388100
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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This stunning children's picture book tells the true story of Sparky, an amazing dog who survived the devastation of the Australian bushfires 2019-20. The Wild family had just adopted Sparky at Christmas time and when they had to evacuate just a few days later, Sparky was lost in the Tintaldra bushland. When the Wild family return to find their home destroyed by the fire, their spirits are buoyed when their scrappy puppy emerges from the smoky surroundings. This meaningful book has been written and illustrated to help children, particularly between the ages of 4-8, helping them to understand and discuss traumatic events such as bushfires and other natural disasters. 'Sparky The Wonder Puppy' comes with support from child psychologists who recognise the comfort and encouragement it will provide for children.
Author: Tim the Yowie Man
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781742579436
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Why are the Min Min lights so mysterious? Is there really a Tasmanian bunyip? Where is Australiarsquo;s most haunted house or most haunted town? These stories range from poltergeists in tunnels beneath Sydney to ghost ships and spooky goings-on in disused gaols and historic penal settlements. There are yowies, a rash of ghosts in the nationrsquo;s capital, haunted shipwrecks, a glowing cross, a knife-throwing phantom and a variety of wandering beasties who infest the swamps, forests and highlands of Australia. Complete with full-colour photographs, illustrations and a comprehensive list of ghost tours, Haunted amp; Mysterious Australia is fascinating reading for anyone with an interest in things that go bump in the night ndash; true believers and sceptics alike.
Author: Paul Pritchard
Publisher: Constable & Robinson
ISBN: 9781841192437
Category : Mountaineering injuries
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Paul Pritchard gained a reputation as a climber of routes of extreme technical difficulty. In 1998, a horrendous accident left him paralyzed. This text recalls his climbing memories and tells of his fight for recovery.
Author: Jean Flitcroft
Publisher: Darby Creek ™
ISBN: 1467751103
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
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A huge, glowing object moved slowly toward her. As it approached, the glow grew more intense and the water warmer. Vanessa stopped swimming, waiting for the inevitable... Vanessa's dreams are haunted by cryptids—mysterious creatures that may or may not exist. Her mother used to study them, gathering scientific evidence that at least some of them are real. Vanessa longs to continue her mother's research. At the moment, though, she also has more pressing concerns—like a family trip that includes her father's new girlfriend. But the visit to Scotland gives Vanessa a chance to explore the eerie secrets of Loch Ness. With the help of her mother's cryptid files, can she solve the mystery of the most famous cryptid of all?
