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The Last Explorer: Hubert Wilkins, Hero of the Great Age of Polar Exploration
Author: Simon Nasht
ISBN-10: 1559708255
ISBN-13: 9781559708258
Published: 2006-09-06
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
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Book Description:
This riveting biography recounts the life of the world's first truly modern explorer, a life of unrelenting adventure and the high drama of polar exploration. Hubert Wilkins was the most successful explorer in history: no one saw with his own eyes more undiscovered land and sea. Largely self-taught, he was a celebrated reporter, pilot, spy, war hero, scientist, and adventurer. He captured in his lens war and famine, cheated death repeatedly, met world leaders like Lenin, Mussolini, and King George V, and circled the globe on a zeppelin. Knighted for being the first person to fly across the North Pole, Wilkins was also the first to fly in the Antarctic, discover land by airplane, and take a submarine under the Arctic ice.
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Crossfire: The Aust. Recon. Unit in Vietnam
Author: Peter Haran
ISBN-10: 1864367210
ISBN-13: 9781864367218
Published: 2001-09
Publisher: New Holland Publishers, Ltd.
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In October 1966, 28 soldiers were chosen to form Australia’s first specialist Reconnaissance Platoon in the Vietnam War. One of this platoon’s section commanders was a 20-year old regular soldier called Bob Kearney, who led a series of deadly patrols, operating in isolation and extreme danger ahead of the main Australian forces.
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"Over There" with the Australians (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press)
Author: R. Hugh Knyvett
ISBN-10: 1406529370
ISBN-13: 9781406529371
Published: 2007-05-11
Publisher: Dodo Press
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Published in 1918, written by the Anzac Scout Intelligence Officer, Fifteenth Australian Infantry.
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Elizabeth And Her German Garden
Author: Elizabeth Von Arnim
ISBN-10: 0860684237
ISBN-13: 9780860684237
Published: 1996
Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
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Trackers
Author: Peter Haran
ISBN-10: 1864366052
ISBN-13: 9781864366051
Published: 2000-04-01
Publisher: New Holland Australia
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Trackers is a gritty and moving story that reveals the Australian Army's little-known use of combat tracker dogs during the Vietnam War. A war veteran tells his story with vivid and compelling immediacy, blending the terror of hunting and encountering the elusive Viet Cong with the tender relationship between a naive young Australian soldier and his dog. A graphic portrayal of the timeless reality of war—the horror, the madness, the tedium, the dark humour—Trackers hurls you into a surreal world of seething jungles, random minefields, and lethal friendly fire. Amid the mayhem, the author finds vital refuge in the innocence of his larrikin labrador-kelpie cross, Caesar. Also an human interest story with enormous widespread appeal, both men and women of all ages will be touched by this special bond between man and dog.
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Well Done, Those Men: Memoirs of a Vietnam Veteran
Author: Barry Heard
ISBN-10: 1920769269
ISBN-13: 9781920769260
Published: 2005-09-28
Publisher: Scribe Publications Pty Ltd.
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Examining the effects of the Vietnam War on both the author and an entire generation of Australian war veterans, this autobiography tells the story of life before, during, and after Vietnam. From inadequate basic training to the horrors of the war itself, as well as the guilt, anxiety, and alienation felt upon returning home, the account documents the psychology, trauma, and ultimate redemption of one veteran of a lost war.
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Rabbit-Proof Fence
Author: Doris Pilkington
ISBN-10: 0786887842
ISBN-13: 9780786887842
Published: 2002-11-20
Publisher: Miramax
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Book Description:
Following an Australian government edict in 1931, black aboriginal children and children of mixed marriages were gathered up and taken to settlements to be institutionally assimilated. In Rabbit-Proof Fence, award-wining author Doris Pilkington traces the story of her mother, Molly, one of three young girls uprooted from their community in Southwestern Australia and taken to the Moore River Native Settlement. There, Molly and her relatives Gracie and Daisy were forbidden to speak their native language, forced to abandon their heritage, and taught to be culturally white. After regular stays in solitary confinement, the three girls planned and executed a daring escape from the grim camp.
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My Place (An Australian Classic)
Author: Sally Morgan
ISBN-10: 0949206318
ISBN-13: 9780949206312
Published: 2010-04-01
Publisher: Fremantle Press
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Looking at the views and experiences of three generations of indigenous Australians, this autobiography unearths political and societal issues contained within Australia's indigenous culture. Sally Morgan traveled to her grandmother’s birthplace, starting a search for information about her family. She uncovers that she is not white but aborigine—information that was kept a secret because of the stigma of society. This moving account is a classic of Australian literature that finally frees the tongues of the author’s mother and grandmother, allowing them to tell their own stories.
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Crack Hardy: From Gallipoli to Flanders to the Somme, the True Story of Three Australian Brothers at War
Author: Stephen Dando-Collins
ISBN-10: 1864710241
ISBN-13: 9781864710243
Published: 2011-07-01
Publisher: Random House Australia
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This is the true story of three Australian soldiers, the Searle brothers. One brother was killed at Gallipoli, another on the Western Front. One came home a decorated hero. Viv, a gifted poet who was planning to be a clergyman before the war, became a deadly efficient sniper. Ray shot himself and was charged with desertion. Ned was a true Australian larrikin, up for anything, and the black sheep of the family. The Searle boys had to crack hardy, as they fought in one grueling campaign after another—from the first wave of the Gallipoli landings to Lone Pine, from Ypres to Messines and Hill 60 in Flanders, to bloody Somme battles at Mouquet Farm, Bullecourt, and Hamel, with their brothers and mates falling all around them. Back home in an Australian country town, their mother, father, sisters, and remaining brother also had to crack hardy, as the bad news from the front just kept coming, and coming. The Searle brothers' great-nephew, award-winning author Stephen Dando-Collins, uses the letters and journals of the Searle brothers and remembrances of other family members, to create a compelling book that defines Australia and Australians during the making of their nation on the far-flung battlefields of World War I.
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