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The Best Australian Trucking Stories

Jim Haynes
The Best Australian Trucking Stories Book PDF

Author : Jim Haynes
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781742693743

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The Best Australian Trucking Stories by Jim Haynes Pdf

A collection of true stories taken from the lives of trucking men and women from Tarcutta to Alice Springs and all over Australia. The trucker's job-so vital to our nation's everyday life-makes for a diverse treasure trove of stories. This first-ever collection of stories about Aussie truckers captures the humour, tragedy and fascinating history of their world, proving once again that truth is often stranger, funnier and more inspiring than fiction. The unlikely yarns and tales, collected by Jim Haynes, quickly transport the reader into the intriguing but often hard and lonely world of the long-distance truck driver. There are stories of endurance while crossing the Nullarbor in the early 1950s, of rescuing mates stranded in the desert and dumping wheat in protest at Parliament House, of repossessing vehicles in suburban Adelaide, and of men imprisoned during the long political battle to make the roads of Australia free to carry freight. Steeped in larrikinism, these are salt-of-the-earth Aussie voices from the most genuine characters to ever spin a yarn. Whether you're interested in one of the most significant social revolutions to have shaped our nation, or in these never-say-die modern pioneers who astound with their resourcefulness, or whether you're just after a laugh and a bloody good story, this book is for you.

Great Australian Outback Trucking Stories

Bill Marsh
Great Australian Outback Trucking Stories Book PDF

Author : Bill Marsh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Australia
ISBN : 0369331095

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Great Australian Outback Trucking Stories by Bill Marsh Pdf

Master storyteller Bill 'Swampy' Marsh has travelled the width and breadth of Australia to bring together yet another memorable collection of stories. This time he has met with many of our outback truckies that criss-cross our nation - across deserts, rivers, and the Great Dividing Range - to share their extraordinary yarns and tales.

Great Australian Outback Trucking Stories

Bill Marsh
Great Australian Outback Trucking Stories Book PDF

Author : Bill Marsh
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781460708866

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Great Australian Outback Trucking Stories by Bill Marsh Pdf

'Marsh knows how to spin a yarn' - Gold Coast Bulletin Whether they're carting produce, stock, fuel, or even (unbeknown to them) dead bodies, there's one thing that can be said about outback truckies - they're a colourful bunch. Meet the outback truckies who brave interminable distances, searing heat, raging floodwaters and foot-deep bulldust to transport goods all across this vast land, serving as lifelines not just to those in the bush but those in cities as well. From the truckie who found a creative means of transporting penguins, to the one who refused to 'abandon ship' as his truck sank into a river, these real-life accounts show the lengths to which these enterprising and resourceful men and women will go to ensure their load arrives safely at their destination. Bill 'Swampy' Marsh is an award-winning writer and performer of stories, songs and plays. He spent most of his youth in rural south-western NSW and now lives in Adelaide. Swampy is one of ABC Books' bestselling authors of Australian stories; this is his nineteenth book.

The Best Australian Yarns

Jim Haynes
The Best Australian Yarns Book PDF

Author : Jim Haynes
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781743316832

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The Best Australian Yarns by Jim Haynes Pdf

Best Australian Yarns is a substantial and definitive collection of factual and fanciful Aussie stories, humor and anecdotes—the result of decades of researching popular Aussie culture and history and yarning to mates and other colorful characters from all parts of Australia and all walks of life. This collection includes tall stories from the bush, reminiscences from the racetrack and shearing shed, railway yarns, stories from the world of show business, Aboriginal legends and humor, digger yarns from both world wars, ghost stories, monsters, bunyips, and yowies... and many things you never knew about our amazing history and the characters who made it—the pioneers, heroes, convicts, bushrangers, eccentrics, and brave and forgotten men and women whose fascinating lives and achievements created the Aussie spirit that we all love. While the stories range from poignant to hilarious, many simply describe unusual coincidences, strange occurrences, or simple everyday humorous events with a refreshing understatement that vividly evokes a vanishing Australia where looking for a good laugh was a key component of a cheekier national character and a simpler lifestyle.

Life on the Road: Kiwi Trucking Stories

Randolph Covich
Life on the Road Kiwi Trucking Stories Book PDF

Author : Randolph Covich
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-30
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780143771951

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Life on the Road: Kiwi Trucking Stories by Randolph Covich Pdf

Kiwi truckies are the unsung heroes of New Zealand – the men and women who make great personal sacrifice and often risk their lives to keep our country running. The people who devote their life, in some way or another, to what is often a hard and lonely passion. Life on the Road gathers together their fascinating stories. It captures the humour, tragedy, action and extremes of the trucking world, by turns moving between the dramatic, light-hearted and surprising – including runaway trucks, skirmishes with the law, nostalgic tales of the early pioneers, love stories, and more than one practical joke. Whether you’re a trucking die-hard or just love the wide open road and a cracking good yarn, Life on the Roadis a gripping insight into the real lives of Kiwi truckies.

Best Australian Drinking Stories

Jim Haynes
Best Australian Drinking Stories Book PDF

Author : Jim Haynes
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-28
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781760870119

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Best Australian Drinking Stories by Jim Haynes Pdf

'It seemed like a good idea...at the time.' - the lament of many a morning after Rum, beer, scotch, wine, beer and more beer. For nearly 250 years Australian history has been punctuated with stories of booze and boozing. From Cook's voyages and the First Fleet to the Rum Rebellion, the mutiny of the 99th Regiment, the soldiers' riot of 1916, six o'clock closing and beyond, we've been a nation that likes a drink. With the eye of the master storyteller that he is, Jim Haynes has collected the best yarns, verses, stories and anecdotes of our boozy history. He uncovers the good and the bad of our national character and its relationship with grog. He celebrates the social gift of alcohol and riotous moments of mateship and camaraderie, but he also offers salutary tales of its consequences - the hangovers, the suffering, the recriminations and the grave occasions subverted by drink. Amusing, wry, tragic and surprising, Best Australian Drinking Stories asks you to grab a glass of your favourite beverage, get comfy and enjoy this fascinating collection of stories about Australia's love affair with booze.

Great Australian Rascals, Rogues and Ratbags

Jim Haynes
Great Australian Rascals Rogues and Ratbags Book PDF

Author : Jim Haynes
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781761185588

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Great Australian Rascals, Rogues and Ratbags by Jim Haynes Pdf

An incredible collection of true crime characters from Australia's master storyteller. The bold, the bad, and the slightly mad... Criminality, some say, is part of Australia's national identity, and in Great Australian Rascals, Rogues and Ratbags Jim Haynes profiles fifteen larger-than-life Aussie rogues - some of our greatest ne'er-do-wells from colonial times to the modern era. These stories uncover the truth and expose the myths about characters ranging from the most despicable examples of humanity, to those whose courage has to be admired and whose so-called 'crimes' were unjustly punished. This fascinating collection features felons who have sprung from Australia's underbelly since 1788, such as the infamous Kate Leigh of the razor gangs; the convict Mary Bryant, who in 1791 escaped from the Sydney penal settlement and somehow made it back to England; James Hardy Vaux, who was sent to Australia no less than three times; Henry James O'Farrell, the madman who attempted to murder Prince Alfred in Sydney in 1868; and John Leak, who was repeatedly charged with insolence, disobedience and being absent without leave in World War I - and awarded the Victoria Cross. Told with Jim's inimitable combination of history and humour, Great Australian Rascals, Rogues and Ratbags is packed with murders, mystery and miscreants: true stories of true criminals from Australia's past. 'entertaining . . . highly readable . . . you will find some genuinely amazing new facts and insights.' ArtsHub

Great Furphies of Australian History

Jim Haynes
Great Furphies of Australian History Book PDF

Author : Jim Haynes
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781761063213

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Great Furphies of Australian History by Jim Haynes Pdf

Jim Haynes upturns some of the long-held myths of Australian history with surprising results. With all the skills of the master storyteller that he is, Jim Haynes exposes some of the great myths of Australian history. Did you know that Portuguese and Spanish explorers probably found the east coast of Australia before Captain Cook, and that the Rum Rebellion was not caused by rum? And what about Banjo Paterson writing Waltzing Matilda? As for Ned Kelly being a brave freedom-fighting rebel, in truth he was a thief, a thug and a murderer. The Ashes have nothing to do with cricket, the Ghan is not named after Afghan cameleers and Hargraves lied about discovering gold in New South Wales. Surprising, confounding, revealing and fun, Jim Haynes takes us on another great journey through Australian history and folklore.

The Best Australian Bush Stories

Jim Haynes
The Best Australian Bush Stories Book PDF

Author : Jim Haynes
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781743314395

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The Best Australian Bush Stories by Jim Haynes Pdf

Stories that take us from the Mallee to the back of Bourke and beyond . an indispensable collection about the enduring appeal of the Australian bush.

Great Australian Scams, Cons and Rorts

Jim Haynes
Great Australian Scams Cons and Rorts Book PDF

Author : Jim Haynes
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781760639693

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Great Australian Scams, Cons and Rorts by Jim Haynes Pdf

'Australian history is...so curious and strange, that it...does not read like history, but like the most beautiful lies... It is full of surprises, and adventures, and incongruities, and contradictions, and incredibilities; but they are all true, they all happened.' - Mark Twain Australia is the birthplace and setting of some of the wildest, craziest and least-likely-to-succeed cons and rorts in history. From the cleverest double-crosses to the most unlikely and maddest schemes, master storyteller Jim Haynes reminds us that we've never been shy of pulling a trick or two. So how did a clever bushman who 'couldn't lie straight in bed' steal a thousand head of cattle and get away with it even though he was caught 'red handed'? And what about the disappearing work of art that suddenly dissolved only to reappear at an auction years later? Or how about the butcher from Wagga who passed himself off as a French-born English duke to inherit a small fortune. And then there was the small matter of a horse, a tin of paint and a million dollar double-cross that became known as the Fine Cotton Affair. In only the way he can, Jim Haynes has collected a veritable 'Gullible's Tales' of unexpected and surprising true stories that may seem hard to believe!

Heroes, Rebels and Radicals of Convict Australia

Jim Haynes
Heroes Rebels and Radicals of Convict Australia Book PDF

Author : Jim Haynes
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781761187971

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Heroes, Rebels and Radicals of Convict Australia by Jim Haynes Pdf

Australia's most amazing characters of the convict age. 'Aussies love a good story and entertainer Jim Haynes has been telling them for decades' —Courier-Mail In Heroes, Rebels and Radicals of Convict Australia, our master storyteller Jim Haynes has collected a fascinating cast of characters who embody the resourcefulness, bravery, defiance, successes and tragedies of the convict era, the men and women who forged the nation we would one day become. There's Joseph Banks, the true founder of the colony; Surgeon John White, the saviour of the First Fleet; Pemulwuy, the Bidjigal freedom fighter; Mary Reiby, the horse thief who made good; Sapy Lovell, the Eora gypsy convict; John Donohue, the wild colonial boy; Lady Jane Franklin, the true leader of Van Diemen's Land – and many more! Why did transportation occur, why did it end, and what was it like living in Australia from 1788 to 1870? Skilfully researched and told in Jim's warm and witty style, Heroes, Rebels and Radicals of Convict Australia answers these questions and brings to life well-known and unknown figures from Australia's history as a penal settlement. This is the true story of the colonisation of Australia. 'In a year when we could all use a different perspective Jim Haynes came to the rescue with his latest sojourn into history . . . a cast of colourful characters.' —Spectator

Adventurers, Pioneers and Misfits

Jim Haynes
Adventurers Pioneers and Misfits Book PDF

Author : Jim Haynes
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781761060533

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Adventurers, Pioneers and Misfits by Jim Haynes Pdf

The petty thief . . . who escaped Van Diemen's Land, twice, stole the government brig and set sail for Japan, where, by the Shogun's decree, all foreigners were to be executed. The world's best cricketer . . . a champion of Aboriginal people who 'invented' Aussie Rules, survived the worst massacre of white settlers in Australia's history and killed himself with a pair of scissors. The eccentric musical genius . . . who played in the greatest concert halls in the world but pushed his favourite piano stool between venues in a wheelbarrow. Over the many years Jim Haynes has spent exploring and writing about the quirkier events and people in Australia's history, he has discovered characters who have amazed, surprised and simply ba?ed him. This is a book about some of those men and women and their remarkable, out-of-the-ordinary and almost unbelievable lives. As he always does, Jim has discovered that there is more to the story than ?rst meets the eye. Who knew that the ?rst man hanged in Australia made an artefact now valued at over one million dollars? Or that an Australian swimmer was the highest-paid act on the American vaudeville circuit and the star of the ?rst million-dollar movie ever made? And that the father of the ?rst Australian woman to serve in parliament was hanged for murder? With a light touch, a wry eye and his gifts as a master storyteller, Jim shares the tales and adventures of a group of heroic, feisty, ?awed and pioneering characters who have shaped our nation and introduced Australia to the world.

Toots

Donna Marie Vawdrey
Toots Book PDF

Author : Donna Marie Vawdrey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Women truck drivers
ISBN : 0646553844

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Toots by Donna Marie Vawdrey Pdf

Toots Holzheimer, a hard working mother of eight, drove trucks for a living from the 1960's to 1990's across some of Australia's most inhospitable terrain, Cape York Peninsula. Toots delivered freight to the northern tip of Australia for over thirty years, servicing her own trucks, loading them by hand (without a forklift until the late 1980s) and then driving for days alone. Toots and her husband Ron constructed their own roads and built their own bridges, renewing them after each wet season. Without bitumen roads, Toots battled corrugation, melon holes, washouts and bull-dust. Flies and mosquitoes were her constant companions as she dug her way out of bogs or coaxed her 'Old Girl', a M.A.N. diesel truck, up and down the steep slopes of the Great Dividing Range. Nothing raised Toots' ire more quickly than someone telling her what she could or couldn't do. Attitude was what mattered to Toots, not gender. Toots attributed her success in life to her determination to 'Do what you want to do and do it well'.

The Diesel Brothers

Heavy D,Diesel Dave
The Diesel Brothers Book PDF

Author : Heavy D,Diesel Dave
Publisher : Gallery Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781982169596

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The Diesel Brothers by Heavy D,Diesel Dave Pdf

Feel like somebody hit the brakes on your Diesel Brothers cravings? Discover how you can keep the gas going with this rip-roaring ride behind the scenes of Discovery Channel's popular series Diesel Brothers. In the world of monster trucks, no one builds bigger and more extreme rides—and has more fun in the process—than Heavy D, Diesel Dave, and their crew at DieselSellerz. Their larger-than-life creations and awesome truck giveaways are legendary, but for those less fortunate who haven’t had the opportunity to experience a Bros’ souped-up truck, this thrill-ride of a book is the next best thing. Learn the epic and inspirational stories behind Heavy D and Diesel Dave’s business and personal lives, from the guys’ first meeting, to their early adventures building DieselSellerz, to their successful business venture with Redbeard, Muscle, and the rest of the fearless staff. In addition to learning about the Bros’ two-year Mormon missions, humble beginnings, and world travels, you’ll also get the unforgettable details of their hilarious, most well-known pranks, and the remarkable stories behind the personalities that have made Diesel Brothers one of the fastest growing and most popular reality TV shows. But wait—there’s more! The book is chock full of essential advice for anyone who’d like to get in on the action. Whether you’re a die-hard monster truck fan or just looking for inspiration to upgrade that piece of junk in your garage, Heavy D and his crew are here to show you how it’s done. You’ll learn how to find the best bargain in the junkyard, how to play hardball with tough-talking dealers, and how to turn that sad sack heap of parts into a badass diesel vehicle. What are you waiting for? Get out there and let diesel freedom ring!

Australian Working Trucks

Anonim
Australian Working Trucks Book PDF

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Trucking
ISBN : 0646537962

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Australian Working Trucks by Anonim Pdf

Captures some of Australia's biggest and most stunning rigs. This book contains working trucks in action, new trucks as well as trucks from the past.