Author: Gregory Keynes
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780645669701
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Nonfiction short stories of the Australian outback as an autobiographical /memoir Did you, from childhood, often listen to grandparents or uncles over the family kitchen table discussing exciting experiences they had in the outback as young people years ago, and wished you could have been there for some of those experiences too? Well, now you can.Grasp this opportunity to gain from 60 years of outback Murchison experience from somebody who's not only lived it but can convey those experiences to you wherever you are in the world into your contemplation, despite your environmentIt doesn't matter if you're a Taxi driver in Sydney or a train driver in Mumbai, India. This book will take you there to outback Australia. This improved epic book follows on from the Authour's well-known previous best-selling book, The Flying Bushman - An Australian Story of Life above the Land. The Flying Bushman - stories from the Heart bringing the wild and ancient landscapes to life so "you can touch and taste it."You will be inspired by Greg's personal journeys, objectively identifying moments of growth and or trauma that contribute to who he is as a bushmanSome confronting real-life stories are included in this book that will make you cry and make you laugh, for which the authour makes no apologies. His goal is to move you. Courage and resilience sustain us, but all of those issues are just part of the daily challenges in outback Australia
Author: Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek
Publisher: Daimon
ISBN: 3856305998
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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These beautiful and timeless stories from the African Bush were gathered more than a century ago and have touched thousands of readers ever since. The South African-born author, Sir Laurens van der Post, revered them and helped to make them known throughout the world. For this special new edition, Gregory McNamee has adapted the original nineteenth-century English translations to create modern versions of the stories for readers without a prior knowledge of the Bushman ways of life. The stories in this book carry universal observations and truths and, with their historical and ethnographic roots in the African Bushman culture, they are fascinating and educational for readers and listeners of all ages. They bear powerful testimony to a desert people living at one with Nature.
Author: Greg Keynes
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1514495902
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 149
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This is an Australian book of short stories and photographs from the real bush, with the flying part of the bushman as a helicopter pilot in position behind the Perspex to have some amazing color photos of the rich pastoral landscape. Having had the experiences of the bush is one thing but being able to explain and describe it as if you were there is another. Let reviewers tell their story. “These short stories are done with deceptive image painting, done so well through the eyes of a child. The smells, the colors, and the visuals are really very affective.” “The true story of your near-death experience as a child was gripping and very well-crafted. It pulls you in, and you can’t put it down. I could feel it all with you.” “Oh, I can see this is a great story, a terrific yarn. You are going to end up with one hell of a good book.”
Author: Storry Walton
Publisher: Wakefield Press
ISBN: 1743051344
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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This book draws together words and images of the people who live and work across Australia's farthest horizons, together with the staff of the Australian Inland Mission (AIM) and its successor Frontier Services, who have devotedly served remote families and provided vital services which they would not otherwise have received.
Author: Alan James
Publisher: University of Kwazulu Natal Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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The First Bushmen, or the First-there-sitting-People, established the path along which all dead people and animals would travel to get to their final holding place, a great hole in the ground. And it was these First Bushmen who had been the original occupants of the land in which the /Xam lived, and about whom stories were told. So declared //Kabbo, one of the last of the /Xam San to narrate the stories and oral traditions which had helped to make the /Xam who they were, and to construct their land and make it livable.
Author: Greg Keynes
Publisher: Gelding Street Press
ISBN: 9781925924558
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Growing up on the family property, Curbur, in outback Western Australia, Murchison country, Greg Keynes' childhood seemed idyllic. Poignant memories of exploring with his dogs; hunting, working and joking with the local Yamatji people. Breaking free from family ties as a young man, Greg began his own aerial mustering business and fell in love with Kim, a girl from Perth. Together their life was sweet, until one day, a routine muster in the rocky gorges of the Hamersley Range went horribly wrong. Along the majestic blue ranges and scouring river beds of the Pilbara, the Flying Bushman is more than a story of memories in the outback, it's a collective reminder of the true Australian Spirit with our resilience, courage and wild hearts that survive the harsh and at times unforgiving terrains that ultimately make us who we are. The Flying Bushman is liberally illustrated with original photographs from Greg's working life as a chopper pilot.
Author: Bradford Keeney
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451610661
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 281
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In The Flying Drum, author and therapist, Bradford Keeney, presents evidence of real mojo—magical objects and practices from around the globe that have an authenticated history of healing, transformation, and inspiration. Whether it is a flying drum, dancing doll, vanishing pot, magical drawing, Samurai pillow, divining sticks, mystery book, or Amazonian feather, the mojo of ancient heart-medicine can appear at social service agencies, university clinics, and psychotherapy centers to help transform people’s lives and heal their souls. As a modern mojo doctor and therapist, Keeney helps everyday people with real problems by working with the ancient, living mojo in sacred objects. In this book he offers specific prescriptions for taking a journey that introduces a treasure chest of magical experience capable of bringing authentic magic and wonder into everyday life.
Author: Farnsworth Wright
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1434405125
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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The fourth issue of the classic pulp magazine ORIENTAL STORIES (Spring, 1931) features work by Otis Adelbert Kline, Frank Belknap Long, and Robert E. Howard (" Hawks of Outremer"), plus many other tales of the Exotic East.
Author: Rupert Isaacson
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802140517
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Brought up on stories and myths of the Kalahari Bushmen, Rupert Isaacson journeys to the dry vast grassland -- which stretches across South Africa, Botswana, and Namibia -- to find out the truth behind these childhood stories. Deep in the Kalahari, Isaacson meets the last groups of Bushmen still living the traditional way, caught between their ancient culture and the growing need to protect and reclaim their dwindling hunting grounds. Little by little he is drawn into the fascinating web of ritual and prophecy that make up the Bushman reality. He hears of shamans who turn into lions, sees leopards conjured from the landscape as though by magic. He attends trance-inducing dances and witnesses incredible healings. But he also sees the heart-wrenching social problems of a dispossessed people. What follows is an adventure of an intensity he could never have predicted. The Healing Land records Isaacson's personal transformation amid these extraordinary people, and his passionate contribution to their political struggle. It captures his enchantment with the character, corruption, kindness, and confusion of a place that has wrenched itself from the Stone Age into the new millennium.
Author: Margaret S Creighton
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0786722061
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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Gettysburg has been written about and studied in great detail over the last 140 years, but there are still many participants whose experiences have been overlooked. In augmenting this incomplete history, Margaret Creighton presents a new look at the decisive battle through the eyes of Gettysburg's women, immigrant soldiers, and African Americans. An academic with a superb flair for storytelling, Creighton draws on memoirs, letters, diaries, and newspapers to get to the hearts of her subjects. Mag Palm, a free black woman living with her family outside of town on Cemetery Ridge, was understandably threatened by the arrival of Lee's Confederate Army; slavers had tried to capture her three years before. Carl Schurz, a political exile who had fled Germany after the failed 1848 revolution, brought a deeply held fervor for abolitionism to the Union Army. Sadie Bushman, a nine-year-old cabinetmaker's daughter, was commandeered by a Union doctor to assist at a field hospital. In telling the stories of these and a dozen other participants, Margaret Creighton has written a stunningly fluid work of original history -- a narrative that is sure to redefine the Civil War's most essential battle.
