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Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1434974626
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 34

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Author: Myfanwy Webb
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780645277500
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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The compelling, dramatic series of white-knuckle encounters with a medley of wild animals keeps you turning the pages, feverish to know how Myfanwy manages to escape alive. A risk taker, she likes living life on the edge and in this adventure-packed memoir, you'll discover how in the remote forests, deserts, and oceans of Australia, she sidestepped death not once but multiple times. If you fear snakes, spiders, sharks or dogs, this book is for you.These stories span her childhood to adult encounters. They include incidents while traveling with her family to remote locations in Australia, to close calls with wild animals during biological fieldwork in Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory. Other incidents happened while surfing and riding her beloved horse. Myfanwy's curiosity and depth of understanding the behaviour of animals, is reflected in the way she describes these contacts with wild animals. Her stories interweave a love of animals and nature, with adrenalin and adventure. Reviews ?Maria said of Cujo- the Attack "I could picture it as if I was there".?John said of El Toro - "Very clever and brave - El bloody Toro made me laugh aloud. What amazing bush experiences of wildness you have had - so exceedingly rare - I am jealous. I also learnt that you need agility to catch Rock Possums, so that's one career lost to me."?Ben - "Great stories about spideys, I love them myself!"?Bronwyn said of Eaten Alive- "Fantastic story!"?Angela said of Eaten Alive - "Oh wow a compelling story! Interesting behaviours demonstrated in the part of both fish and human!"

Author: Troy Dann
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781742571751
Category : Baptism
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Action Dann tells his best friend Oakie about the young boy who hides in a log to avoid being christened. What happens next is hilarious!

Author: Anne McLeod
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780646941417
Category : Feminists
Languages : en
Pages : 238

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Lawyer, feminist, environmentalist, mountaineer, Buddhist - the exceptional story of the first woman to practise law in New South Wales.

Author: Peter Gray
Publisher: Arcturus Publishing
ISBN: 1789502918
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 700

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If you have always wanted to excel at drawing, then The Complete Guide to Drawing & Illustration is for you. All you need is a pencil, a bit of blank paper and the expert guidance you will find within these pages. This book is designed to systematically teach you the essentials of drawing and lays the groundwork for you to develop your own personal drawing style. • Hands-on course in drawing and illustration, suitable for beginners and improvers alike • Practical, step-by-step, easy-to-follow exercises and demonstrations • From simple object drawing, move on to tackle all aspects of our environment, people and animals • Sketching and observation, materials and theory, tips and techniques - everything you need to know to create original artworks, cartoons and illustrations • More than 1,000 illustrations

Author: Alison Mackinnon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521497619
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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In this 1997 book, Alison Mackinnon traces the history of women's challenges to changes in education, employment, reproductive science and law. She shows the connection between the lives of the first generation of women university graduates and the sudden decline in the national birthrate. So dramatic was this shift that it sparked a Royal Commission into its cause. Alison Mackinnon's extensive research shows that the declining birthrate was not simply the result of 'selfish', educated, young women refusing to bear the burdens of motherhood, but was symptomatic of a larger questioning of the role of women in procreation, the role of women in marriage and the institution of marriage itself. Utilising social and government history, autobiography and statistical analysis, this book shows that 'the Marriage Problem' exists as much in the 1990s as it did in the 1890s. Men and women today are still challenging the boundaries between work and home, profession and private life, trying to find a way to have it all.

Author: Marie Byles
Publisher: Pariyatti
ISBN: 1938754395
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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Born in Ashton upon Mersey, Cheshire, UK in 1900, Marie Beuzeville Byles is best known to Vipassana meditators for her practice of meditation. In Journey Into Burmese Silence (George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1962), she traces her own story as she first travels to Burma and comes in contact with Vipassana Meditation and then how she returns several times more later in her life to strengthen her practice. At the Maha Bodhi Meditation Centre in Mandalay, she became the student of U Thein who taught as a lay teacher in the tradition of Saya Thet Gyi. U Thein forms the centre of a group of devoted friends that sustain Marie in her struggle and lead her on a pilgrimage of meditation centres across Burma. Byles' book is a detailed account of the many Burmese practices going by the name ‘Vipassana’. It is a valuable and inspiring book for any truth seeker.

Author: Laurence Fearnley
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1459616340
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 358

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"'As a boy in the late 1930s, young Boden's life is changed for ever the day his neighbour Dudley drives him over the mountains into the vast snow-covered plains of the Mackenzie Country. He realises he will never be the same again. Years later, the 20-year-old Boden, now a university student, helps build an alpine hut high up on the eastern slopes of Mount Cook. Living in snow caves while the hut is built, Boden forms important relationships with members of his working party, most notably with Walter, a conscientious objector from the Second World War" --Back cover.

Author: Andrew Hogarth
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780731678310
Category : Battlefields
Languages : en
Pages : 123

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Category : Experimental films
Languages : en
Pages : 460

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