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A history and stories of all the Bush Brotherhoods that have existed within the Anglican Church in Australia 0in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia since 1897. With a sense of fun and adventure and dedication the Bush Brothers found that by serving God they often received friendship and loyalty in return from the bushies who often had no other visitor. 199 pages with 15 black and white photographs and a map with an endpaper map. Book in very good condition with light tanning. Dust jacket in very good condition in clear wrapper with mi0nor dent bottom front (see photo).

Some of the colourful heroes of the Bush, relatively unrecognised as seemingly every act of courage and daring always seemed to be accompanied by a touch of scandal and disrepute where the larrikin spirit went a touch to far thus becoming our tarnished heroes. 192 pages with numerous illustrations throughout many in colour. Book and dust jacket in as new condition. This is a larger book but no increase in postage in Australia.

Cape horn is the closest land mass to Antarctica and is the only obstacle in the way of storm force winds and mountainous seas. It is the passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans - an essential trade route in the past it became and remains the ultimate test of seamanship. The author has rounded the Cape twice and brings special authority to the telling of the story. 240 pages with 2 maps. Book in very good condition ex library with stamp, sticker and number on back endpaper, and minor marks front endpaper. Dust jacket in very good condition in clear wrapper with sticker on spine and back.

Between 1768 and 1779 Captain Cook circumnavigated the globe three times in voyages of discovery that broke record after record of exploration, endurance and personal achievement. A graphic and lively account of this great explorer. 192 pages with 20 pages of colour illustrations and black and white illustrations on 77 pages, a map of Cook's voyages and endpaper map. Book in very good+ condition with minor marks pages 22-24, 78-80 and first colour plates. Dust jacket in very good condition with knocks to corners and top and bottom spine.

From his origins as the son of a farm labourer to his violent death in Hawaii, Captain James Cook , in three epic journeys, discovered more of the earth's surface than any other man. 470 pages with some illustrations throughout. Book in very good condition with minor foxing.

The author lived for extended periods on many of the islands but many of the islands had never been described before. The historic, social, and architectural essentials of each location are given. 244 pages with 41 black and white photographs and 8 maps including endpaper map. Book in very good condition with some minor foxing to leading edgaes. Dust jacket in good+ condition with small sticker on front, some knocks and chips and wear (see photo).

Between 1492 and 1504 Columbus made four voyages to the West Indies each a drama and paradoxically the great discoverer hated discovery. 208 pages including maps on 3 pages. Book in very good condition with fading. Dust jacket in very good condition with some wear (see photo).

The day to day life of the author, nursing and teaching, on an isolated aboriginal depot in the North West of Western Australia, while raising her own family. 238 pages with 32 b lack and w0hi0te illustrations. Book i0n very good+ condition with light tanning. Dust jacket in very good condition small rubbing on front (see photo), small tear bottom spine and dent top spine..

A retelling of the mutiny on the Bounty mixing fact and imagination and a first rate travel book. 259 pages with 3 maps. Book in very good condition.

The author's solo retracing of the route Christopher Columbus took across the Atlantic 500 years earlier. 208 pages including 51 illustrations. Book and dust jacket in as new condition with inside jacket price clipped.

The authors travel throughout South Africa and record what things entertained and excited them. 446 pages with 44 black and white illustrations, 4 maps and endpaper maps. Boo in very good condition with previous owners details on front endpaper. Dust jacket in very good condition with some wear to edges.

The author travels to the interior of the northern Congo through swamps, forests and jungle - a perfectly awful journey written with strange insights, erudition and humour. 472 pages with 16 pages of colour photographs. Book in very good condition with cover having small tear top front and back near spine and some wear.

The author's life against a background of the real Australian bush and contact with the Aborigines. The coming of the white man disrupted the tribal plan but many of the whites blended into their way of living and ended up being content to lie in the sun. 208 pages with 22 black and white photographs and a map. Book in very good condition with previous owners name , date and address on first page and light tanning. Cover in clear wrapper with spill marks on front (see photos).

The author undertook intensive training in the Cooper Creek country, made a practice climb on a New Zealand peak and then travelled to Nepal to climb 21,592 foot LangTang 11. 239 pages with 39 illustrations. Book in very good+ condition with light reader wear and some tanning. Dust jacket in good+ condition price clipped, knocks to edges, one tear and some wear (see photo).

A boys adventure in the South Seas islands. 280 pages. Book in good condition with foxing to top and minor foxing to side and bottom. Some foxing on first four pages and inside of covers. Two small ink marks on front inside cover. Two small tears to cover top spine and rubbing to spine. Otherwise pages and cover clean. No dust jacket.

From 1911-1918 Emiliano Zapata ruled a large portion of Mexico and for two years about one-third of it. He was known as the Attila of the South and had a fighting force of twenty thousand men. He could not read or write. The author rode with him. 316 pages with 12 black and white illustrations and a map. Book in good+ condition with light tanning. Cover has some fading and wear. No dust jacket.

Signed by the author this book presents a colourful, exciting and authentic picture of life in the Northern Territory. Stories cover many strange and wonderful tales from the macabre to the humorous, his people from the fantastic to the lovable including aboriginal corroborees, droving, how a wallaby shot a man and the crocodile who lived in a Bank. 222 pages with 12 pages of black and white photos. Book in very good condition with light tanning. First page has writing and is clipped on top right corner. Dust jacket in good condition and is intact with some dents and wear to edges ( see photo) and small tear top right of spine.

The Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1955-58. Starting in 1949 as an idea Sir Vivian Fuchs became the leader of the Expedition that traversed Antarctica from Shackleton Base to Scott Base via the South Pole. 338 pages with 30 colour and 42 black and white photographs, and 9 maps. Book in very good+ condition with some fading and a few marks to spine (see photo). No dust jacket.

In 1939 the author, seeking an antidote for Europe's madness and her drug addicted friend, Christina, set out for Afghanistan through Italy, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Turkey and Iran and for six months experience the exhilaration of travel and the stimulation of unfamiliar peoples and culture. 217 pages with 18 black and white photographs and a map. book in very good condition ex library with stamp inside front cover and small reference marks there and first page. and light tanning.

William Dampier, a buccaneer known as the devils mariner, sailed the world three times surviving dangers and physical hardship of long years at sea. A hundred years before Cook he was the first Englishman to set foot in Australia. Also included is Dampier's journal from 1681 to 1691 which is published here for the first time. 545 pages with 8 colour plates and 10 black and white illustrations. Book is new.