Australiana True Stories and Biographies
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Bill the Bastard: The Story of Australia's Greatest War Horse - PB
An epic yarn based on the true story of a great Australian war horse who rode with bravery and valour at Gallipoli, the desert campaigns of Egypt, and Palestine.
Devils on Horses - HB
Reunited with their horses in Egypt after the shattering experience of Gallipoli (a story recounted in Terry Kinloch's earlier book, Echoes of Gallipoli), the Anzac mounted riflemen and light horsemen were initially charged with the defence of the Suez Canal.......
Forgotten Men: Australian Army Veterinary Corps 1909-1946 - HB
Forgotten Men is the long overdue account of the significant contribution to the Australian Army of the Australian Army Veterinary Corps in two world wars.
Great Australian Horse Stories - PB
Life in the saddle - from wild brumbies of the high country to trusty stock horses of the outback and from drovers to dressage riders - a collection of heart-warming tales for horse-lovers.
Great Working Horse Stories
Funny, familar and deeply moving, these true stories of Australian working horses stretch over three generations and every part of our continent.
Hale & Hardy - Tales and recollections from a country practice
Stuck in traffic one night John Hale read a sign: If you don't change direction you will finish up exactly where you are headed. He took the message to heart.
Horses Too Are Gone, The
The drought had reached crisis point. Cattle farmer Mike Keenan decided there was only one solution: he would have to get his starving cattle and his beloved horses to greener pastures north of the border.
In Search of a Wild Brumby
Bestselling author MIKE KEENAN is off again - this time with the daunting task of capturing a Snowy Mountains brumby, following in the footsteps of the Man from Snowy River.
In Stockmen's Footsteps - PB
How a farm girl from the black soil plains grew up to champion Australia's outback heritage.
Not Only a Hero
"...Despite his rough and often larrikin behaviour Simpson was genuinely concerned for the welfare of other people - and not only that of his family and friends, but of total strangers -
On the Trail of the Silver Brumby - HB
Generations of Australians have fallen in love with the silver brumbies of Elyne Mitchell's classic children's stories.
Outback Pioneers
In Outback Pionners, Evan McHugh gathers the enthralling stories of the men and women who opened up the Australian outback and in the process discovered the beauty and terror of this extraordinary country.
Phar Lap, A True Legend (Revised Edition)
Phar Lap is one of Australia's best-loved icons. The story of the gangly foal who became one of the greatest racehorses ever has captured Australians' hearts for generations.
Pieces of Blue
At the age of six, Kerry McGinnis loses her mother. Her father, left with four young children to raise, gathers up his family and leaves the city to go droving.
Stories of the Outback
Bert Bolton is an outback man. He has spent 50 years working, touring and crossing the tracks of our great explorers and pioneers, admiring their dedication, determination, adventurous spirit and devotion in advancing Australia.
The Australian Light Horse - PB
The Australian Light Horse was a unique force, first raised during the Boer War, and then reformed for World War I.
True North - PB
Growing up in suburban Perth in the 1920s, the two Durack girls were fascinated by tales of the pioneering past of their father and grandfather overlanding from Queensland in the 1880s and setting up four vast cattle stations in the remote north.
Welcome to the Outback - PB
The Outback isn't a place on a map; it's a place in your heart. It's an attitude, how you treat people, a way of behaving. It's your belief system, and how a whole nation of Australians often long for a time when life was simpler.
What Are The Odds? The Bill Waterhouse Story
Bill Waterhouse is a true Australian character who has spent a lifetime mixing it with the biggest names in sport, business and politics.
Wild Horses Don't Swim
The author of the bestselling THE HORSES TOO ARE GONE takes us on another unforgettable adventure.
Australia on Horseback - HB
The first horse set foot in Australia on 30 January 1788, one of seven aboard the First Fleet's Lady Penrhyn, which also carried a cargo of female convicts.
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