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This volume is part of a two volume set: ISBN 9781407388335 (Volume I), ISBN 9781407388342 (Volume II), ISBN 9780860544135 (Volume set).

This volume is part of a two volume set: ISBN 9781407388335 (Volume I), ISBN 9781407388342 (Volume II), ISBN 9780860544135 (Volume set).

Winner of the 2014 Indie Award for Non - Fiction. Girt. No word could better capture the essence of Australia... In this hilarious history, David Hunt tells the real story of Australia's past from megafauna to Macquarie ... the cock - ups and curiosities, the forgotten eccentrics and Eureka moments that have made us who we are. Mark Twain wrote of Australian history: 'It does not read like history, but like the most beautiful lies ... but they...

A history of Gerrards Cross

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This book is intended for anyone who has to deliver any form of presentation or public speaking activity. Whether you are a sales or marketing professional, a senior business person, a technician, teacher or student, this book will help you become more confident and achieve greater success with your life. This book could help you land a new job or promotion, win new sales, gain management approval for your proposals, persuade financiers to ...

Having been made redundant at the ripe old age of 45, the author was told he was too old to get another sales or marketing management job in the IT industry. So, what happens when a businessman reaches that magical age of 45? Does a dramatic change suddenly take place? Does he suddenly no longer understand how business operates? Does he lose the power of coherent thought or speech? Are his limbs no longer under the strict control of his bra...

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This is a story of a prophecy told millennia ago and handed down mother to daughter. The reopening of Pandora's Box unleashes monsters and mayhem on the English countryside. But the event also releases magic into the world. The gathered companions must find and destroy the Orb, but first, they must set their own house in order. Merriam finds herself mated to four strong, caring men who will do anything to protect her. The group finds events sp...

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The saga of Australia continues with ... GIRT NATION David Hunt tramples the tall poppies of the past in charting Australia's transformation from aspiration to nation -an epic tale of charlatans and costermongers, of bush bards and bushier beards, of workers and women who weren't going to take it anymore. Girt Nation introduces Alfred Deakin, the Liberal necromancer whose dead advisors made Australia a better place to live, and Banjo Paterson,...

Some family secrets get lost over time, especially when one pursues the life of a wanderer, pursuing adventure abroad, far from home. Some memories are repressed out of pain and loss of a loved one. It has been fifty years since Professor Daniel Jonson made a promise to his deceased Uncle Paul, to tell a children's story entitled, "The Chinaman's Story" to all the children in the neighborhood while he was away at war in the Pacific. Was his re...

Book of Ruins offers a survey ‿ not encyclopedic, but substantial ‿ of leading moments when the fact and idea of ruins were taken up by writers, travellers and artists: painters, film makers, landscape architects, and architects. Gathering together short texts and extracts that describe and reflect on ruins, dating from remote antiquity (Scipio shedding tears when viewing the destruction of Carthage) to present times (the ruins of a modern cit...

This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.

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Life is FULL of lessons, and Sweet Willie McDuffie has to learn them just like everyone else, including you! Maybe by reading Willie's stories, you can get some ideas about how to get a "head start" on learning some of these lessons. For example, Willie's first lesson is about bullying. Wouldn't you like to know how someone else successfully handles the problem in case you have to face it one day? Luckily Willie has a sister (Susie) who cares ...

First there was Girt. Now comes ... True Girt In this side-splitting sequel to his best-selling history, David Hunt takes us to the Australian frontier. This was the Wild South, home to hardy pioneers, gun-slinging bushrangers, directionally challenged explorers, nervous indigenous people, Caroline Chisholm and sheep. Lots of sheep. True Girt introduces Thomas Davey, the hard-drinking Tasmanian governor who invented the Blow My Skull cocktail,...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.