Author: Sarah Williams
Publisher: Serenade Publishing
ISBN: 0648046273
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
The Outback Governess
Author: Sarah Williams
Publisher: Serenade Publishing
ISBN: 0648046273
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
Publisher: Serenade Publishing
ISBN: 0648046273
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
My Outback Life
Author: Toni Tapp Coutts
Publisher: Hachette Australia
ISBN: 0733637264
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
Having grown up on the massive Killarney cattle station near Katherine, NT, Toni Tapp Coutts was well prepared when her husband, Shaun, took a job at McArthur River Station in the Gulf Country, 600 kilometres away near the Queensland border. Toni became cook, counsellor, housekeeper and nurse to the host of people who lived on McArthur River and the constant stream of visitors. She made firm friends, created the Heartbreak Bush Ball and started riding campdraft in rodeos all over the Territory, becoming one of the NT's top riders. In the midst of this busy life she raised three children and saw them through challenges; she dealt with snakes in her washing basket; she kept in touch with her large, sprawling Tapp family, and she fell deeply in love with the Gulf Country. Filled with the warmth and humour readers will remember from A SUNBURNT CHILDHOOD, this next chapter in Toni's life is both an adventure and a heartwarming memoir, and will introduce readers to a part of Australia few have experienced.
Publisher: Hachette Australia
ISBN: 0733637264
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
Having grown up on the massive Killarney cattle station near Katherine, NT, Toni Tapp Coutts was well prepared when her husband, Shaun, took a job at McArthur River Station in the Gulf Country, 600 kilometres away near the Queensland border. Toni became cook, counsellor, housekeeper and nurse to the host of people who lived on McArthur River and the constant stream of visitors. She made firm friends, created the Heartbreak Bush Ball and started riding campdraft in rodeos all over the Territory, becoming one of the NT's top riders. In the midst of this busy life she raised three children and saw them through challenges; she dealt with snakes in her washing basket; she kept in touch with her large, sprawling Tapp family, and she fell deeply in love with the Gulf Country. Filled with the warmth and humour readers will remember from A SUNBURNT CHILDHOOD, this next chapter in Toni's life is both an adventure and a heartwarming memoir, and will introduce readers to a part of Australia few have experienced.
An Outback Life
Author: Mary Groves
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1459622626
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
An outback tale of a woman who spent the prime of her life in the Northern Territory, often struggling to put a meal on the table, told in simple, straightforward language, the narrative zipping along at a lively pace, with one cracking yarn after another....
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1459622626
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
An outback tale of a woman who spent the prime of her life in the Northern Territory, often struggling to put a meal on the table, told in simple, straightforward language, the narrative zipping along at a lively pace, with one cracking yarn after another....
Outback Governesses
Author: Paula Heelan
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
ISBN: 148922095X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Outback Governesses is collection of eye-opening stories about fourteen governesses who drop in, Mary Poppins-like, to educate children in Australia's remotest rural areas and in return receive a bush education of their own. Outback Governesses is collection of eye–opening stories about fourteen governesses who drop in, Mary Poppins–like, to educate children in Australia's remotest rural areas and in return receive a bush education of their own... From the School of the Air to vast outback stations, small rural schools to remote Indigenous communities around Australia – all across this wide brown land, governesses and teachers drop in, Mary Poppins–like, to take over homestead schoolrooms and the responsibility of educating children. The governesses are often young women from urban backgrounds, and they become part of the family they work for as well as the local community, and share the trials and tribulations of station life. They fall in and out of love, learn to ride horses and motorbikes, explore spectacular parts of Australia, help with station work, cook and eat with the family, attend rodeos, campdrafts, country races, and the local shows, and other bush events. There are medical emergencies, seasonal floods, bushfire and drought that all affect station life and the school routine. And then there are the unwelcome visitors to liven things up – snakes, bats, mosquitoes, centipedes, flies, feral pigs, red back spiders and the massive insect explosions following rain. There is always something happening and you can never be sure what the day will bring. Living and working in isolated areas can mean battling poor access to technology, teaching children who speak English as a second language and learning how to engage and motivate children who might be the only student in the classroom. Days can swing from triumphant, hilarious and joyful, to downright difficult – but it's clear from the tales in this collection, the rewards of teaching outback far outweigh the disadvantages – there is nothing like a bush education.
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
ISBN: 148922095X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Outback Governesses is collection of eye-opening stories about fourteen governesses who drop in, Mary Poppins-like, to educate children in Australia's remotest rural areas and in return receive a bush education of their own. Outback Governesses is collection of eye–opening stories about fourteen governesses who drop in, Mary Poppins–like, to educate children in Australia's remotest rural areas and in return receive a bush education of their own... From the School of the Air to vast outback stations, small rural schools to remote Indigenous communities around Australia – all across this wide brown land, governesses and teachers drop in, Mary Poppins–like, to take over homestead schoolrooms and the responsibility of educating children. The governesses are often young women from urban backgrounds, and they become part of the family they work for as well as the local community, and share the trials and tribulations of station life. They fall in and out of love, learn to ride horses and motorbikes, explore spectacular parts of Australia, help with station work, cook and eat with the family, attend rodeos, campdrafts, country races, and the local shows, and other bush events. There are medical emergencies, seasonal floods, bushfire and drought that all affect station life and the school routine. And then there are the unwelcome visitors to liven things up – snakes, bats, mosquitoes, centipedes, flies, feral pigs, red back spiders and the massive insect explosions following rain. There is always something happening and you can never be sure what the day will bring. Living and working in isolated areas can mean battling poor access to technology, teaching children who speak English as a second language and learning how to engage and motivate children who might be the only student in the classroom. Days can swing from triumphant, hilarious and joyful, to downright difficult – but it's clear from the tales in this collection, the rewards of teaching outback far outweigh the disadvantages – there is nothing like a bush education.
The Governesses
Author: Patricia Clarke
Publisher: Hawthorn, Vic. : Hutchinson of Australia
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher: Hawthorn, Vic. : Hutchinson of Australia
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The Outback Volume 8
Author: Various authors
Publisher: Boolarong Press
ISBN: 1922643653
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
This collection of short stories about the Outback is the result of the eighth writing competition for the Outback Writers’ Festival held in Winton on 20–22 June 2023. The winner was announced at the Festival. The best stories are in this book. See www.outbackwritersfestival.com.au and Facebook for the results. Follow us on Facebook and let us know whether you think the judges got it right.
Publisher: Boolarong Press
ISBN: 1922643653
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
This collection of short stories about the Outback is the result of the eighth writing competition for the Outback Writers’ Festival held in Winton on 20–22 June 2023. The winner was announced at the Festival. The best stories are in this book. See www.outbackwritersfestival.com.au and Facebook for the results. Follow us on Facebook and let us know whether you think the judges got it right.
Master of the Outback
Author: Margaret Way
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1459219430
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Tall, brooding, powerful…and standing in her way! Writer Genevieve Grenville is trembling with excitement as she heads out to Djangala cattle station to finally uncover the mystery that haunts her family. But standing in her way is brooding cattle baron Bret Trevelyan…. Bret might look at her with temptation in his eyes, but he'll do everything possible to stop her digging up the past. Even at a distance, Bret radiates a powerful charisma, but up close, in the cattle baron's Outback world, he is the master. If she's caught snooping, Genevieve will have to answer to him!
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1459219430
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Tall, brooding, powerful…and standing in her way! Writer Genevieve Grenville is trembling with excitement as she heads out to Djangala cattle station to finally uncover the mystery that haunts her family. But standing in her way is brooding cattle baron Bret Trevelyan…. Bret might look at her with temptation in his eyes, but he'll do everything possible to stop her digging up the past. Even at a distance, Bret radiates a powerful charisma, but up close, in the cattle baron's Outback world, he is the master. If she's caught snooping, Genevieve will have to answer to him!
Legends of the Outback
Author: Marie Mahood
Publisher: Boolarong Press
ISBN: 1922109193
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Heroes, visionaries and eccentrics! Outback writer Marie Mahood is the author of the much loved Icing on the Damper and A Bunch of Strays. In the 1960s she raised cattle and kids on the world’s most remote cattle station, Mongrel Downs, in the Tanami Desert. Here she writes about the heroes, visionaries and eccentrics of Australia’s vast outback. Her thirty-two characters include the greatest drover and Gulf trekker of them all, Nat Buchanan: prince of poddy-dodgers Harry Readford; the cattle king Sidney Kidman; outback surveyor supreme and all-round good bloke Len Beadell; Aboriginal warrior Jandamarra; Mat Wilson at the NT Depot store; gun shearer Jackie Howe; drover Edna Zigenbine on the Murranji Track; explorer and goldmine Christy Palmerston in the heartland of Cape York Peninsula; eccentrics such as the Gulf Hero and the Barkly Hermit; and drovers who were also painters and poets of repute.
Publisher: Boolarong Press
ISBN: 1922109193
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Heroes, visionaries and eccentrics! Outback writer Marie Mahood is the author of the much loved Icing on the Damper and A Bunch of Strays. In the 1960s she raised cattle and kids on the world’s most remote cattle station, Mongrel Downs, in the Tanami Desert. Here she writes about the heroes, visionaries and eccentrics of Australia’s vast outback. Her thirty-two characters include the greatest drover and Gulf trekker of them all, Nat Buchanan: prince of poddy-dodgers Harry Readford; the cattle king Sidney Kidman; outback surveyor supreme and all-round good bloke Len Beadell; Aboriginal warrior Jandamarra; Mat Wilson at the NT Depot store; gun shearer Jackie Howe; drover Edna Zigenbine on the Murranji Track; explorer and goldmine Christy Palmerston in the heartland of Cape York Peninsula; eccentrics such as the Gulf Hero and the Barkly Hermit; and drovers who were also painters and poets of repute.
Beyond the Outback
Author: Bronwyn Blake
Publisher: Hachette Australia
ISBN: 0733642217
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Twenty women share their incredible stories of surviving and thriving in the remote Australian 'Gulf Country', near the Gulf of Carpentaria. Gulf women are self-sufficient, generous, and can cope with almost anything that life and the environment throws at them: floods, drought, sickness, emergencies. Whether they are graziers, fisherwomen, ringers, women in tourism, aviation and education, Indigenous women or descendants from early women settlers, this powerful book gives these women a voice to tell their own stories. There are stories of new mothers on properties isolated and inaccessible for months in the wet season; women giving birth at home with only neighbours to assist; reminiscences from last century and World War II, and accounts of fishing in the Gulf in sometimes unimaginable conditions. From the kids wanting a baby croc for a pet to the terror of a snake bite with a flooded airstrip and impassable roads, these women treat the extraordinary events in their lives as just part of their remote way of life. Set in a world of vast landscapes, distance and merciless climate, Beyond the Outback contains riveting tales of the lives of the women who live, work and raise families in one of Australia's most isolated regions. It will be loved by readers of Sara Henderson, Toni Tapp Coutts and Terry Underwood.
Publisher: Hachette Australia
ISBN: 0733642217
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Twenty women share their incredible stories of surviving and thriving in the remote Australian 'Gulf Country', near the Gulf of Carpentaria. Gulf women are self-sufficient, generous, and can cope with almost anything that life and the environment throws at them: floods, drought, sickness, emergencies. Whether they are graziers, fisherwomen, ringers, women in tourism, aviation and education, Indigenous women or descendants from early women settlers, this powerful book gives these women a voice to tell their own stories. There are stories of new mothers on properties isolated and inaccessible for months in the wet season; women giving birth at home with only neighbours to assist; reminiscences from last century and World War II, and accounts of fishing in the Gulf in sometimes unimaginable conditions. From the kids wanting a baby croc for a pet to the terror of a snake bite with a flooded airstrip and impassable roads, these women treat the extraordinary events in their lives as just part of their remote way of life. Set in a world of vast landscapes, distance and merciless climate, Beyond the Outback contains riveting tales of the lives of the women who live, work and raise families in one of Australia's most isolated regions. It will be loved by readers of Sara Henderson, Toni Tapp Coutts and Terry Underwood.
OUTBACK MARRIAGE
Author: Meredith Webber
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1460357647
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
It was bad enough that Blythe Jones had to sit next to — and dance with! — rude, challenging, dangerously attractive Cal Whitworth at the wedding. It was definitely too much when his plane crashed on the way back and the two doctors had to spend the night in the wild. And as for his plea that Blythe should work in his Outback practice while his broken arm healed...well! But for some reason Blythe agreed. And the more she saw Cal — his dedication, his caring, his unnervingly sexy smile — the harder it was to remember why she was off men....
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1460357647
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
It was bad enough that Blythe Jones had to sit next to — and dance with! — rude, challenging, dangerously attractive Cal Whitworth at the wedding. It was definitely too much when his plane crashed on the way back and the two doctors had to spend the night in the wild. And as for his plea that Blythe should work in his Outback practice while his broken arm healed...well! But for some reason Blythe agreed. And the more she saw Cal — his dedication, his caring, his unnervingly sexy smile — the harder it was to remember why she was off men....