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Great Australian CWA Stories by Bill Marsh
$9.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
Put your hand up if you think the CWA is a tea-and-scones group of women who sit around tables and chat away. Wrong! Well, they do make the best jams and scones in the whole world, but as these stories reveal, these big-hearted, fun-loving, practical women are the backbone of communities throughout Aust ...Show more
Great Australian Droving Stories by Bill Marsh
$9.95 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Great Australian Stories Ser.
A collection of amazing, hilarious, controversial, rugged stories that pack a real punch. Listen as these drovers, ringers, stockmen, stockwomen and scoundrels speak about their way of life in an Australia that is fast disappearing.
Great Australian Outback School Stories by Bill Marsh
$9.95 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Great Australian Stories
Fabulous yarns and memories of going to school and teaching in the Outback. If your teacher commuted to school in a plane; if you had to watch out for rogue bulls rather than traffic; if your daily pick-up was done by a horse - you probably went to an outback school. this collection of more than sixty s ...Show more
Great Australian Outback Teaching Stories by Bill Marsh
$9.95 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Great Australian Stories
From beyond the black stump to the Australian Alps; in schools on stations, missions, mines and over the air, it takes a special kind of person to be an outback teacher. Back then, not only did we have to teach the three Rs but also sewing, arts and craft, music, physical education - you name it. Plus t ...Show more
Great Australian Shearing Stories by Bill Marsh
$9.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
In late 1999, Bill 'Swampy' Marsh began to collect shearing stories. This collection brings to life a world of outback stations, larrikins, roustabouts, sagacious dogs and babbling brooks whose blood is worth bottling. Part bush yarns, part social history, this book is a worthy successor to Marsh's 'Gre ...Show more
Great Australian Stories: Outback Towns and Pubs by Bill Marsh
$9.95 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Great Australian Stories
The people you'll meet will touch your heart as Swampy brings to life all the drama and delight of life in outback Australia. There's the story of Frederick Aloysius Millard, the only dog ever to become a member of a Citizens Club in Australia, thanks to the vote of a woman who was sure she'd been intro ...Show more
New Great Australian Flying Doctor Stories by Bill Marsh
$9.95 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Great Australian Stories Ser.
"Where's your thumb?" the doctor asked the injured ringer. "Oh, we stuck it over there on the gatepost, fer safe keepin'." And just as the doctor turned around to the gatepost, he saw a crow heading skyward, thumb and all. From the pilots, doctors and nurses who spread their 'mantle of safety' throughou ...Show more
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