The Brumby Wars
The Brumby Wars

Author: Anthony Sharwood

Publisher: Hachette Australia

Published: 2021-09-01

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 0733647219

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It's not just a war over horses. It's a battle for the soul of Australia. This is a book about the intense culture war raging around Australia's wild horses, known as brumbies. It pits a vision of the legendary Man from Snowy River and the iconic ANZAC Light Horse against the spectre of ecosystems destroyed by feral pests. The debate involves powerful politicians and media commentators, and stars an animal mythologised in Australian poetry and prose. But in essence, this is about us. The Brumby Wars is about Australians at war with each other over their vision of an ideal Australia. To ecologists and people who ski, walk and fish in the High Country and other areas where the brumbies proliferate, they are a feral menace which must be removed to save delicate alpine landscapes. To the descendants of cattle families and many Australians in urban and regional areas, brumbies are untouchable, a symbol of wildness and freedom. Something has to give. But what? The land or the horses? This war is set to escalate dramatically before we have an answer. Featuring interviews with characters from all sides of the debate, The Brumby Wars is the riveting account of a major national issue and the very human passions it inspires. It is also a journey, a quest to understand what makes us tick in our increasingly polarised country. Praise for Anthony Sharwood's From Snow to Ash 'Makes for inspirational reading' West Australian 'A distinctive, charming narrative ... a thinking, caring man's trek' Canberra Times 'A joyous read with personality in spades ... A book for the adventurer in us all' Australian Geographic

Brumby
Brumby

Author: Kathryn Massey

Publisher: Exisle Publishing

Published: 2013-08-31

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1775590836

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The Brumby holds a special place in the Australian psyche. Immortalised in films such as The Man from Snowy River and books like the Silver Brumby series, Brumbies epitomise the spirit of freedom and courage beloved by most Australians. Today, however, they face an uncertain future. Considered by some to be feral pests and increasingly marginalised in lands that have been their home for over a century, Brumbies need our support more than ever before if they are to be protected for the enjoyment of future generations. Bringing together breathtaking photographs of Brumbies in the wild as well as often thought-provoking and entertaining stories from people privileged enough to have encountered or worked with them personally, Brumby celebrates the beauty, strength and indomitable spirit of these amazing animals.

Chasing Bullets
Chasing Bullets

Author: Suzanne Cass

Publisher: Suzanne Cass

Published: 2017-12-20

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13:

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“The story line is romantic, heart breaking, intense…” Will the ultimate act of love end in betrayal? Tara Hunter’s easy life in Byron Bay is turned upside down when David Cooper, her ex-police partner, appears in town and their chequered past comes back to haunt her. Two years ago, Cooper took a bullet meant for her. Unable to handle the consequences of that act, she fled Sydney without a word. While Cooper has recovered physically from the bullet wound, mentally he’s still scarred by her act of betrayal. Forced to work closely with Cooper and his counter-terrorism team to track down a group of extremists hiding in the jungle wilderness, Tara soon finds the illicit desire they shared two years ago is back, stronger than ever. But after Cooper is taken hostage, she finally realises what it means to have the courage to love someone unconditionally, when she dives in front of a terrorist’s speeding bullet to save him.

Saving the Snowy Brumbies
Saving the Snowy Brumbies

Author: Kelly Wilson

Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited

Published: 2017-10-02

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 0143770586

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Each year thousands of Australia’s legendary Brumbies are aerially culled or captured and sold for slaughter to manage the world’s largest population of wild horses. When the Wilson Sisters hear of government plans to cull 90 per cent of the Snowy Mountain Brumbies, they eagerly sign up for the Australian Brumby Challenge to learn more about these iconic horses’ desperate plight. Assigned ponies so small that even the slaughterhouses have rejected them, Vicki, Kelly and Amanda realise their Brumbies' future lies with much younger riders. Will these Brumbies embrace the many changes ahead of them, and can the sisters find children they trust to ride recently wild ponies? The sequel to the best-selling books For the Love of Horses, Stallion Challenges and Mustang Ride.

The Brumby Mare
The Brumby Mare

Author: Brian Taylor

Publisher: Hachette Australia

Published: 2012-10-01

Total Pages: 121

ISBN-13: 0733626831

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The Brumby Mare is an engaging collection of reminiscences about traditional Queensland stockmen and bush workers in the 1950s and 1960s, before the days of motorbikes and helicopters. Brian Taylor knows and loves his country and his stories ring with the authority of experience. Some of the incidents he describes are laugh-aloud funny, some heart-stopping and some very moving. He is a close, thoughtful and warm-hearted observer – of people, of wild and working animals and of the country that sustains them. The Brumby Mare is sure to evoke nostalgia in bush folk and for city readers it will bring the old world of the outback and stockman to life. A quintessential Australian bushman, Brian Taylor has spent most of his life on the land. Working as a drover, a stockman, a fencer, a shearer and a saddler, he has gathered a lifetime of stories over the years as he travelled way out past the Barcoo, along dusty plains and beside dry creek beds under the endless southern sky. Also available, together with The Moonlight Stallion, as the single volume A Swag Of Memories: Australian Bush Stories.

Austral English
Austral English

Author: Edward Ellis Morris

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-06-09

Total Pages: 553

ISBN-13: 1108028799

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The first scholarly dictionary of Australian and New Zealand English, including loan words from indigenous languages, originally published in 1898.

Brumby Plains
Brumby Plains

Author: Joanne Van Os

Publisher: Random House Australia

Published: 2011-06-01

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 1742745326

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Sam and George, 13 and 11, live at Brumby Plains, their parents' sprawling buffalo station in the Northern Territory. They're counting down to the Christmas holidays, and anticipating the fun they'll have exploring the property, horse riding, and spending time with their cousins Tess and Darcy. But weird things are happening at Brumby Plains - who is leaving the gates open, and why did a plane land in darkness in a deserted area? A chance encounter with an Englishman who knows more than he's letting on leaves Sam suspicious, but all their worries are forgotten as the four kids find a spooky cave up in the hills. Vincent, their old Aboriginal friend, says they shouldn't go there - he says it's a dangerous place, full of angry spirits. Surely there's no harm in exploring, though - is there?