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Graham Seal is one of Australia's master storytellers. This bumper collection of yarns from the bush gathers some of our best stories since colonial times, retold in Graham's warm style.
It takes a certain character to make a living in the Australian bush. In the most difficult situations, laughter often comes to the rescue. Here are pioneers and battlers, convicts and settler's children, and a land that tests them with fire, flood and drought, in...
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Australia's history is one of epic journeys, intrepid explorers, and mysterious disappearances in far-flung places. From perilous sea voyages to the distant south land, to forays across vast deserts on horseback, they are stories of endurance and misadventure, survival, and loss. Master storyteller Graham Seal has gathered together a gripping collection of famous and lesser-known journeys by land, sea, and air in the 19th and early 20th centuries....
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Page turning stories of inventive scams, dramatic escapes and captures, and vile deeds of our most infamous criminals.
'Graham Seal finds and writes ripper, fair-dinkum, true blue Aussie yarns. His books are great reads.' -The Weekly Times
Australia's master storyteller trawls our rich history of cold cases, notorious robberies, shameless frauds and razor gangs to uncover a cast of colourful villains. From the men and women who stepped off the convict...
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From one of our master storytellers, author of the bestselling Great Australian Stories, comes another collection of yarns, tall tales, bush legends, and colorful characters. Taking us from the deep outback to the glistening sea, they go to the heart of what makes us distinctively Australian.
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Australians traditionally like their humor irreverent, crude, and with very sharp teeth.
Remember the one about the strange whining sound heard at airports as planes from Britain landed? This was the whining of Pommy migrants dissatisfied with what they found in Australia. Or how about the Citizenship Test for Aspiring Australians which begins with this question about an essential life skill: "How many slabs can you fit in the back of a Falcon ute...
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Over the years, the experiences of soldiers at war become the stuff of legend: tales of great bravery, battlefield wins, and also the tragic losses and poignant moments. Great ANZAC Stories gathers iconic stories of Australian experience in the major wars the country has fought: World Wars I and II, Korea and Vietnam, and also tales from the home front. Here we relive the horror of the first day on Gallipoli, acutely aware of what was to come. We...
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Fascination with the unknown, the hidden, the lost, the missing and the secret is universal. Australia has more than its fair share of mysteries, from before the beginning of recorded time up to the disappearance of flight MH370 in the waters to our south (or maybe elsewhere).
In Great Australian Mysteries Graham Seal retells tales of the supernatural, of unsolved crimes, lost treasures, wartime enigmas and other enduring mysteries. Some of the stories...
8) Great Australian Places: Funny, curious and downright astonishing stories from across a big country
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Australia's master storyteller takes us all around the country, uncovering tales of unsolved crimes, early exploration and military exploits, fascinating natural phenomena and iconic destinations.
Wherever you go in Australia, you'll stumble across traces of ancient settlement, remnants of exploration, yarns from the roaring days of gold and bushranging, unexplained events and a never-ending cast of eccentric characters.
Graham Seal takes us on...
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In the early seventeenth century, Britain took ruthless steps to deal with its unwanted citizens, forcibly removing men, women, and children from their homelands and sending them to far-flung corners of the empire to be sold off to colonial masters. This oppressive regime grew into a brutal system of human bondage which would continue into the twentieth century.
Drawing on firsthand accounts, letters, and official documents, Graham Seal uncovers...