Gunbarrel Highway

Gunbarrel Highway
Author: Sean Bridges
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press Inc
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2024-11-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1509258752

Texas trophy wife Claudia Grant dies after she causes an early morning car accident. In the other vehicle, Daniel Morrison, an attorney struggling with a pending divorce and pill addiction, panics and leaves the scene. The victim’s husband, congressional candidate Hayden Grant, is a corrupt politician who seizes the opportunity and places a million-dollar reward on Morrison’s capture. Dead or alive. Daniel is on the run. Roya Navarro, a determined San Antonio police detective, is hot on his trail with local law enforcement, county sheriffs, a hungry journalist, and trigger-happy citizens all across the Lone Star state out on the hunt for the bounty.

Bank & Thrift Branch Office Data Book

Bank & Thrift Branch Office Data Book
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 826
Release: 1999
Genre: Bank accounts
ISBN:

Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia.

The A to Z of the Discovery and Exploration of Australia

The A to Z of the Discovery and Exploration of Australia
Author: Alan Day
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2009-06-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 081086326X

This engaging reference examines the history of, the search for, and the discovery of Australia, taking full account of the evidence for and the speculation surrounding possible earlier contacts by the Ancient Egyptians, Arabs, and Chinese seamen. Day brings the expeditions to life, expressing the desires that drove great sea captains deeper into turbulent waters searching for caches of spice, silks, and precious metals. Covers a wide variety of topics, including _ Seamen from eight nations _ The recovery of storm wrecked ships _ Diplomatic treaties _ Priority of discovery disputes _ Military and civil explorers and surveyors _ Topographical features _ Geographical terms and places _ Rivers and river system

P-Z

P-Z
Author: Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1644
Release: 1990
Genre: Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN:

Making Settler Colonial Space

Making Settler Colonial Space
Author: Tracey Banivanua Mar
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2010-05-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230277942

Charts the making of colonial spaces in settler colonies of the Pacific Rim during the last two centuries. Contributions journey through time, place and region, and piece together interwoven but discrete studies that illuminate transnational and local experiences - violent, ideological, and cultural - that produced settler-colonial space.

Outback Australia

Outback Australia
Author: Ron Moon
Publisher: Lonely Planet
Total Pages: 582
Release: 1994
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9780864422392

This guide includes information for travellers to the Outback.

Mount Buggery to Nowhere Else

Mount Buggery to Nowhere Else
Author: Eamon Evans
Publisher: Hachette Australia
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2016-10-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 0733635598

The stories behind Australia's many, many strange, inappropriate and downright hilarious place names. From Dismal Swamp to Useless Loop, Intercourse Island to Dead Mans Gully, Mount Buggery to Nowhere Else, Australia has some of the strangest, funniest, weirdest and most out-of-place names going - now described and explained in one humorous and fascinating book. Australia's vast spaces and irreverent, larrikin history have given us some of the best place names in the world. Ranging from the less than positive (Linger and Die Hill, NSW), to the indelicate (Scented Knob, WA), the idiotic (Eggs and Bacon Bay, TAS) to the inappropriate and the just plain fascinating, MOUNT BUGGERY TO NOWHERE ELSE is a toponymical journey through this nation of weird and wonderful places. 'A hilarious and unusual tour of Australia and its history.' DAILY TELEGRAPH