Blues, Blinders and Ball-bursters

Blues, Blinders and Ball-bursters

Author: Ken Piesse

Publisher:

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13:

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Diverse array of stories and features on Australian league football, in which fourteen players reveal their inner thoughts, doubts and triumphs. Complemented by a glossary, list of significant dates, index and short pieces on the physical and mental preparation required of modern-day footballers.


Third Language Dictionary

Third Language Dictionary

Author: Kerrin P. Rowe

Publisher: Trafford Publishing

Published: 2018-05-03

Total Pages: 783

ISBN-13: 1490786341

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Third Language Dictionary is a guide to everyday language that is peculiar to and used by Australian folks from all walks of life no matter what or who they are or the level of success, education, credence, or place in society they have attained.


Great Australian Sporting Moments

Great Australian Sporting Moments

Author: Michael Roberts

Publisher: The Miegunyah Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 155

ISBN-13: 0522855474

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"This is a fully illustrated book highlighting some memorable moments in Australian sporting history."--Provided by publisher.


Landscape with Figures

Landscape with Figures

Author: Richard Jefferies

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2013-08-01

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 0141392908

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Richard Jefferies was the most imaginative and least conventional of nineteenth-century observers of the natural world. Trekking across the English countryside, he recorded his responses to everything from the texture of an owl's feather and 'noises in the air' to the grinding hardship of rural labour. This superb selection of his essays and articles shows a writer who is brimming with intense feeling, acutely aware of the land and those who work on it, and often ambivalent about the countryside. Who does it belong to? Is it a place, an experience or a way of life? In these passionate and idiosyncratic writings, almost all our current ideas and concerns about rural life can be found. Richard Jefferies (1848-1887) was the son of a Wiltshire farmer. He never worked the land but made his living from writing, trekking across the countryside with his notebook. He spent much of his life struggling against poverty and tuberculosis, which would eventually kill him at the age of thirty-nine. As well as being in many ways the father of English nature writing, Jefferies also wrote the classic children's book Bevis and the apocalyptic science-fiction novel After London. Richard Mabey's introduction to his selection of Jefferies' work discusses the author's life, his views on the paradoxes of rural life and his place in the tradition of nature writers.