The Adventure Of The Colonial Boy
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Author | : Narrelle M Harris |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2016-03-31 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780993513626 |
1893. Dr Watson, still in mourning for the death of his great friend Sherlock Holmes, is now triply bereaved, with his wife Mary's death in childbirth. Then a telegram from Melbourne, Australia intrudes into his grief. "Come at once if convenient." Both suspicious and desperate to believe that Holmes may not, after all, be dead, Watson goes as immediately as the sea voyage will allow. Soon Holmes and Watson are together again, on an adventure through Bohemian Melbourne and rural Victoria, following a series of murders linked by a repulsive red leech and one of Moriarty's lieutenants. But things are not as they were. Too many words lie unsaid between the Great Detective and his biographer. Too much that they feel is a secret. Solve the crime, forgive a friend, rediscover trust and admit to love. Surely that is not beyond that legendary duo, Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson?
Author | : Dan Docherty |
Publisher | : Austin Macauley |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2020-10-30 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781528991957 |
This autobiographical novel narrates the journey of Dan Docherty, a young Glasgow law graduate and karate black belt, who left his traditional Catholic family in 1975 to serve in the notoriously corrupt Royal Hong Kong Police. In Hong Kong, he learned Chinese language intensively, then drill, musketry and law. A famous Tai Chi master accepted him as a disciple and trained him to become an international full contact champion. In this book we'll have a few beers with colourful characters like Big Don and Mountie Dave. We'll visit exotic locales--Manila, Macao, Singapore... We'll witness Dan in full contact competition and in street fight action. As they say in the Hong Kong Police, "If you can't take a joke, you shouldn't have joined."
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Bushrangers |
ISBN | : 9780141307312 |
Author | : Bill Pellew-Harvey |
Publisher | : Malahide Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2021-09-29 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781739928636 |
A truly extraordinary and intimate personal memoire of an equally extraordinary man. A story that carries the reader from a childhood in colonial Africa to the inside of the arms trade encompassing the glitter of Monte Carlo and the oligarchs of modern day Russia. A gripping account of a trader who has grasped every opportunity that has come his way - from frozen potatoes to mineral water, armaments to airlines, UN representative to intelligence agent - to name but a few. The author's life story moves the reader seamlessly from continent to continent across almost 65 years encompassing his participation in some of the most extraordinary military, social and political events of that time span.
Author | : Frank Clune |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Bushrangers |
ISBN | : 9780207146527 |
Author | : Narrelle M. Harris |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Fantasy fiction |
ISBN | : 9780975112922 |
"I remember screaming very loudly. In TV shows, that's where the ad break comes in, while some ninny is screaming her head off. No ad break in life, though". Lissa Wilson has seen more than enough death in her family, so when people start being savagely killed whenever she has a night out in Melbourne with her beautiful new boyfriend, she's determined to investigate and make the killings stop. Even when she realises the murders must be the work of a vampire. Things had been looking up for this librarian and 21st century geekgirl, but the murders make her remember why she prefers books to people. People leave you. People can die. She finds herself teaming up with the painfully awkward Gary to get to the undead heart of the matter. But there are more challenges in store than Gary's appalling fashion sense. The idea of living forever can be a big temptation for someone who has lost so much... AUTHOR: Narrelle Harris was born in Newcastle, Australia and proceeded to move every few years until most of her friends thought she was in a Witness Protection program. Her itinerancy included three years abroad, teaching English in Egypt and Poland. Although now settled in Melbourne with her husband and her cat, she continues to relieve itchy feet with regular travel. Narrelle has also been a playwright, songwriter, actress, editor, public servant, kitchen hand and - once only - a very bad telemarketer.
Author | : Jane Smith |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 54 |
Release | : 2016-09-05 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1925520765 |
Included on the South Australian Premier’s Reading Challenge list.An exciting new Australian adventure series full of danger, daring and wild colonial boys! Tommy Bell, Bushranger Boy is a wonderful new series featuring Tommy’s time travelling escapades that take him face-to-face with some of Australia’s most notorious bushrangers. The hero of the series, Tommy Bell, lives in regional NSW in contemporary times but is able to travel back in time to the gold rush days by wearing an old bushranger’s hat that he discovered on his grandfather’s farm. Tommy and his friends find themselves up close and personal with one of Australia’s well known outlaws. With each adventure there is plenty of danger and excitement: armed hold-ups, sieges, frauds, shoot-outs, police chases, jail-time and much more. Each book cleverly incorporates a parallel story from Tommy’s twenty-first century life that tests his friendships and develops his character. Book 2 – The Horse Thief Tommy Bell is happy when the popular new kid at school wants him to join his gang. His new friend is trouble but he’s not half as much trouble as the bushranger that Tommy meets when his magic hat takes him back to the gold rush days. Tommy finds himself in the middle of a horse robbery, a police chase and a prison escape!
Author | : James E. Knight |
Publisher | : Troll Communications |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1998-09 |
Genre | : Boston Tea Party, Boston, Mass., 1773 |
ISBN | : 9780816748020 |
A Boston merchant describes the day-to-day events leading up to and including the famous Boston Tea Party rebellion. Book sin this series of history tells absorbing stories while relaying to the reader important information about life during the colonization of America. Illustrations.
Author | : Thomas Keneally |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2022-03-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1982169168 |
The award-winning author of modern classics such as Schindler’s List and Napoleon’s Last Island is at his triumphant best with this “engrossing and transporting” (Financial Times) novel about the adventures of Charles Dickens’s son in the Australian Outback during the 1860s. Edward Dickens, the tenth child of England’s most famous author Charles Dickens, has consistently let his parents down. Unable to apply himself at school and adrift in life, the teenaged boy is sent to Australia in the hopes that he can make something of himself—or at least fail out of the public eye. He soon finds himself in the remote Outback, surrounded by Aboriginals, colonials, ex-convicts, ex-soldiers, and very few women. Determined to prove to his parents and more importantly, himself, that he can succeed in this vast and unfamiliar wilderness, Edward works hard at his new life amidst various livestock, bushrangers, shifty stock agents, and frontier battles. By reimagining the tale of a fascinating yet little-known figure in history, this “roguishly tender coming-of-age story” (Booklist) offers penetrating insights into Colonialism and the fate of Australia’s indigenous people, and a wonderfully intimate portrait of Charles Dickens, as seen through the eyes of his son.
Author | : Jacob Abbott |
Publisher | : Wentworth Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2019-02-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780526128228 |
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