My Mornington Peninsula Adventure

My Mornington Peninsula Adventure
Author: Jo Rothwell
Publisher: Lion Hudson CHECK
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2006
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780975723029

Harry and Nelly's adventure takes them to the Mornington Peninsula where they play chase with a very unusual sand sculpture. "An odd thing occurred when I stood back to look,The leg on my sand beast wiggled and shook.It opened its mouth, said 'G'day, name is Clive',I'd created a sand monster, and now it's ALIVE!"

No Adventure Too Ridiculous

No Adventure Too Ridiculous
Author: Rusty Hix
Publisher: Archway Publishing
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2017-02-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1480841897

Rusty Hix first developed a love of travel and adventure when he accompanied his family across the United States as a young boy. As he matured into a young man, Rusty began traveling internationally to feed his curiosity for understanding the worlds greatest mysteries. From hiking in national parks to caving in foreign countries, Hixs fascinating stories detail unforgettable adventures in Cancun, Costa Rica, Australia, New Zealand, China, Easter Island, Finland, and many other locations. In sometimes irreverent prose, Hix chronicles his not-so-typical travel tales of helicoptering over the geothermal areas of New Zealand; zip-lining, kayaking, and whitewater rafting in Costa Rica; and visiting pagodas, Buddhist temples, and the Great Wall in China. He also describes many of the wild experiences that include a panda sitting on his lap, vertical caving, sky diving, climbing the worlds highest structure, and a serious car accident that nearly cost him his life. Hix also details the food, customs and behavior of people within a variety of cultures along with vivid descriptions of the scenery where it all takes place. No Adventure Too Ridiculous is a colorful celebration of one mans escapades as he explores far-flung places on a legendary and sometimes farcical journey around the world.

The Other Side of Absence

The Other Side of Absence
Author: Betty O'Neill
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2020-08-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1920727698

Betty O’Neill grew up knowing very little about her father, Antoni. She knew that he had fled Poland after World War Two, that he had disappeared overnight when she was just an infant, and that his brief reappearance when she was a young adult had been a harrowing, painful ordeal. Fifty-five years after he deserted her family, Betty is determined to find out more. What drove him to abandon them, twice? What was his story? Who was Antoni Jagielski? Her search for truth takes Betty to Poland, where she unexpectedly inherits a family apartment from the half sister she never knew – a time capsule of her father’s life. Sifting through photos and letters she begins to piece together a picture of her father as a Polish resistance fighter, a survivor of Auschwitz and Gusen concentration camps, an exile in post-war England, and a migrant to Australia. But the deeper she searches, the darker the revelations about her father become, as Betty is faced with disturbing truths buried within her family. Honest, compelling, and meticulously researched, The Other Side of Absence is an elegant debut memoir of resilience and strength, and of a daughter reconciling the damage that families inherit from war.

Untamed Spirit

Untamed Spirit
Author: Doris Maron
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2010-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1450228518

In the summer of 2001, at fifty-three years old, Doris Maron sold everything she owned, except her motorcycle and a few personal belongings, to live a dream. On August 4 of that year, Maron left Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, on her 750 cc Honda Magna to begin her journey around the world. Over the next two years and eleven months, she traveled across forty-four countries on six continents.

No Time For Fear

No Time For Fear
Author: Paul De Gelder
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2011-04-11
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0857963430

IMPROVISE. ADAPT. OVERCOME. These three words the mantra of the Australian Army resonated with Paul de Gelder the first time he heard them. Paul chased adventure wherever he could find it, from his wild ride as a hoodlum teen and his drug-and-alcohol fuelled stint working in a strip club to hauling his way up to the elite echelons of the defence forces. But trouble hunted him down in the form of a brutal shark in February 2009. Paul lost two limbs, and his career as a daredevil navy clearance diver was flung into jeopardy. Drawing on everything his eventful life had taught him, Paul left nothing to chance in his recovery. He fought through excruciating pain, smashing challenge after challenge, and amazing the medical staff with his will to succeed. His inspiring story takes 'never say die' to a whole new level. From rebel, drug dealer and strip club worker to adventurer, soldier, fitness enthusiast, Navy diver, shark attack survivor, top motivational speaker and mentor to schoolkids across Australia, Paul de Gelder is an exceptional young man. He is now determined to carve out the best future for himself he could possibly imagine. Paul is a true survivor and an incredible inspiration.

Press Escape

Press Escape
Author: Shaun Carney
Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2016-10-31
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0522870031

Getting away was always a driving ambition for Shaun Carney—from an outer-suburban house in the 60s and 70s, from a family with a secret: a father with a double life and a borrowed name. Journalism gave Shaun that escape, to another life, to becoming a different person. For 34 years he took every opportunity it offered, flourished and knew success even while dealing with the personal struggle of his own child battling cancer. But a greater sense of freedom came when he forgave the people he’d wanted to flee and, unexpectedly, let go of the life that he’d worked so hard to create. In this beautifully crafted memoir one of Australia’s leading political journalists writes movingly about discovering the one story that really matters.

The Emu

The Emu
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 910
Release: 1918
Genre: Birds
ISBN:

Granny by Pushi around in Australia

Granny by Pushi around in Australia
Author: Hermine Stampa-Rabe
Publisher: epubli
Total Pages: 602
Release: 2014-03-10
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 3844282793

10.01.2014 hope to come by bicycle across the hell hot Nullarbor – through the Marry River Valley – along the Great Ocean Road – north to the Murray River – east to Yass – north in inland west of the mountains – Brisbane – further north in inland to Rockhampton – in the near of the Coast Line north to Townsville – west to the Stuart Highway – north to Darwin – Cockatoo Valley – crocodile feading - Stuart Highway south – Devil's Marbles – King's Canyon – Alice Springs - Stuart Highway south – up to the Nullarbor – Perth