Life in the Australian Outback

Life in the Australian Outback
Author: Lisa Jensen
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Total Pages: 16
Release: 2011-10-28
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 3656040915

Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,7, University of Hannover (Philosophische Fakultät), course: Academic Writing and Research, language: English, abstract: The Australian outback is a reckless place to live in. It does not compromise but has to be taken the way it is: rugged, hot and dry. Still, there are people who chose to rather come to terms with all the difficulties of living in such a rough place, than moving to the comfort of the city. This paper aims to show how some of these difficulties, being education problems, insufficient healthcare and loneliness, are overcome, and why there are people who still prefer this lifestyle over the easier way of living in the city.

From Alice to Ocean

From Alice to Ocean
Author: Robyn Davidson
Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1992
Genre: Travel
ISBN:

Presents the story of an Australian woman who set off to cross the outback, accompanied only by 4 camels and a dog. Photo CD contains photographs and narration. Apple CD contains an interactive program for the user to join the trip.

An Outback Life

An Outback Life
Author: Mary Groves
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2011
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1459622626

An outback tale of a woman who spent the prime of her life in the Northern Territory, often struggling to put a meal on the table, told in simple, straightforward language, the narrative zipping along at a lively pace, with one cracking yarn after another....

The Lost Boy

The Lost Boy
Author: Robert Wainwright
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2004-04-01
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 9781741143423

In 1993 8-year-old Clinton Liebelt went missing from a roadhouse between Darwin and Alice Springs - one of the most desolate places in the world. Australian journalist Robert Wainwright's uplifting and triumphant tribute tells the story of how one child's disappearance united an entire community and the wider Northern Territory of Australia.

Outback Dreams (A Bunyip Bay Novel, #1)

Outback Dreams (A Bunyip Bay Novel, #1)
Author: Rachael Johns
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2013-10-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1743644701

Faith and Monty are both looking for love...in the wrong direction. Faith Forrester is at a crossroads. Single, thirty and living on a farm in a small Western Australian town, she's sick of being treated like a servant by her brother and father. Ten years ago, her mother died of breast cancer, and Faith has been treading water ever since. She wants to get her hands dirty on the family farm. She wants to prove to herself that she's done something worthwhile with her life. And she wants to find a man... For as long as he can remember, Daniel 'Monty' Montgomery has been Faith's best friend. When he was ten, his parents sold the family property in Merindah and moved to Perth to be closer to support services for his autistic brother, and ever since, Monty's dreamed of having his own place. So for the last ten years, he's been back on the land, working odd jobs and saving every dollar to put toward his dream. And now he finally has it. But there's still something missing... So when Faith embarks on a mission to raise money for a charity close to her heart – Dogs for Autism – and Monty's dream property comes on the market, things seem like they are falling into place for them both. Until a drunken night out ends with them sleeping together. Suddenly, the best friends are both facing a new set of challenges... Monty and Faith are both ready to find a life partner and settle down, but have they both been looking in all the wrong places?

An Australian Outback Food Chain

An Australian Outback Food Chain
Author: Rebecca Hogue Wojahn
Publisher: Lerner Publications
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0822574993

Describes food chains in the tundra, beginning with carnivores, such as a falcon or a polar bear, and ending with decomposers.

King of the Outback

King of the Outback
Author: Bill King
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Total Pages: 470
Release: 2011
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1459628233

The life of the legendary pioneer of outback travel - the man who opened up Australia to adventure travel. A modern - day explorer who took everyday Australians along for the ride.Bill King is the pioneer who put the Australian outback on the map for both local and international tourists. Through an enterprise founded on hope and grit - now operating as AAT Kings - he opened up a completely new branch of Australian tourism. Thousands of Australians have experienced the adventure of a lifetime in Bill's capable hands, often walking in the footsteps of explorers such as Burke and Wills, Leichhardt, Sturt and Stuart.Eccentric drivers, mad passengers and sticky situations abound against the backdrop of the glorious Australian outback. Bill and his tour groups sometimes got lost, bogged or stranded - sometimes even scared out of their wits - but there was always a fierce determination to bring the show back home. Bill never lost a passenger or brought one to harm, though by heck they did sometimes try his monumental patience.

Hell West and Crooked

Hell West and Crooked
Author: Tom Cole
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2013-08-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1743099916

The bestselling story of a real-life Crocodile Dundee. the bestselling story of a real-life Crocodile Dundee. In this remarkable memoir, tom Cole tells the stories of his life in the outback during the 1920s and 1930s. With great humour and drama, he recounts his adventures as a drover and stockman in the toughest country in Australia and later on as a buffalo shooter and crocodile hunter in the Northern territory before the war. First published in 1988 and having sold over 100 000 copies, Hell West and Crooked is perfect for anyone who enjoys a classic outback yarn. 'A real-life story of the pioneering days of the top End that out-adventures anything fiction writers could hope to produce.' - tHE WESt AUStRALIAN 'tom Cole is a living legend, a real-life Crocodile Dundee. His stories paint a vivid picture of wild and exciting times in the Australian outback.' - MELBOURNE SUNDAY EXPRESS 'A story of the outback and cattlemen and women, stripped of glamour, that will become an Australian classic to rub covers with authors like Ion Idriess.' - GOLD COASt BULLEtIN