Author: Frank Clune
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780207146527
Category : Bushrangers
Languages : en
Pages : 496

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Author: Dan Docherty
Publisher: Austin Macauley
ISBN: 9781528991957
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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This autobiographical novel narrates the journey of Dan Docherty, a young Glasgow law graduate and karate black belt, who left his traditional Catholic family in 1975 to serve in the notoriously corrupt Royal Hong Kong Police. In Hong Kong, he learned Chinese language intensively, then drill, musketry and law. A famous Tai Chi master accepted him as a disciple and trained him to become an international full contact champion. In this book we'll have a few beers with colourful characters like Big Don and Mountie Dave. We'll visit exotic locales--Manila, Macao, Singapore... We'll witness Dan in full contact competition and in street fight action. As they say in the Hong Kong Police, "If you can't take a joke, you shouldn't have joined."

Author: Michael Lawrence
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781925556209
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The first edition of Wild Colonial Boys, published in 2012 was used as a resource by both Cold Chisel and their management (who dubbed it 'the bible'). The first edition has been out of print for over two years, and with the launch of Jimmy Barnes' new autobiography, and five more years of Chisel activity, it is time to release the totally revised and updated second edition. With new, never before published photos covering their entire career, updates to all chapters from 1975, an extensive new chapter detailing Chisel's career post 2012, this is a must have book for all Cold Chisel fans!

Author: Mary Losure
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763663697
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 177

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What happens when society finds a wild boy alone in the woods and tries to civilize him? A true story from the author of The Fairy Ring. One day in 1798, woodsmen in southern France returned from the forest having captured a naked boy. He had been running wild, digging for food, and was covered with scars. In the village square, people gathered around, gaping and jabbering in words the boy didn’t understand. And so began the curious public life of the boy known as the Savage of Aveyron, whose journey took him all the way to Paris. Though the wild boy’s world was forever changed, some things stayed the same: sometimes, when the mountain winds blew, “he looked up at the sky, made sounds deep in his throat, and gave great bursts of laughter.” In a moving work of narrative nonfiction that reads like a novel, Mary Losure invests another compelling story from history with vivid and arresting new life. Back matter includes an author’s note, source notes, and a bibliography.

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780141307312
Category : Bushrangers
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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Author: Robert Antoni
Publisher: Akashic Books
ISBN: 1617751561
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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In 1845, British engineer John Adolphus Etzler invented machines to transform the division of labour and sent Londoners to form a utopian community in Trinidad. One recruit is a young boy, Willy, who helps build the society's future home in a remote swamp. Far from realising Etzler's dream of paradise, most are stricken with the 'Black Vomit'. Willy and his father make a final attempt to fix a wrecked boat, but Willy's father falls ill and dies. Willy must decide whether return home with Marguerite, who he loves, or become the head of his family in their new home.

Author: Laurie Carlson
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1569767815
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 153

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Gives instructions for preparing foods, making clothes, and creating other items used by European settlers in America, thereby providing a description of the daily life of these colonists.

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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 554

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An encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and senior high school students.

Author: Frank Clune
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Kristiana Gregory
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780590226516
Category : Diaries
Languages : en
Pages : 194

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In her diary, thirteen-year-old Hattie chronicles her family's arduous 1847 journey from Missouri to Oregon on the Oregon Trail.