The Adventures of Tim the Yowie Man
The Adventures of Tim the Yowie Man

Author: Tim the Yowie Man

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 9781740510783

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"A snooping expert of major proportion...with all the zeal of a dingo on heat!" - New Weekly Magazine "...His colourful tales make for great reading" - Access Hollywood "Australia's greatest mystery hunter" - Sunday Telegraph The truth is not the only thing out there...So is Tim the Yowie Man! So named after spotting a yowie (an Australian "bigfoot") in the rugged Snowy Mountains of Australia, Tim the Yowie Man is a mystery investigator and "cryptonaturalist" who is fast becoming the world's pre-eminent authority on strange and bizarre phenomena... Tim can be best described as Fox Mulder from the X-Files meets the Bushtucker Man. From his headquarters located in the heart of the nation's capital, Canberra, Tim travels extensively around Australia and the world to investigate hidden or unnatural and natural phenomena. Poltergeist in the pantry? Bunyip in the basement? That's right - if anything bizarre has happened in the world, Tim is first on the scene to investigate and validate. Tim is also a merry prankster and agent provocateur. His most audacious exploit to date was gate-crashing the filming of the US "Survivor II" series in outback Qld. His daring stunt of dropping chocolate bars from a helicopter to the show's contestants, as well as posting a map divulging the secret location of the "Survivor II" site on his personal website incited an international media frenzy and much gnashing of teeth from CBS TV executives. Receiving some1.5 million daily hits to his website, articles in the Australian and international press (from the New York Post to The Washington Post), scores of radio and TV interviews as well as a spot as guest commentator for "Survivor II" on Access Hollywood,Tim the Yowie Man became an instant larrikin sensation. The Adventures of Tim the Yowie Man is jam-packed with more than a dozen classic, spooky and kooky adventures including: * Illegally trespassing on the top secret set of the "Survivor II" TV series - chartering a chopper and dropping chocolate bars on the show's contestants as outraged producers and TV execs race about in a panic and later threaten to sue Tim's shorts off... * Diving in the murky depths of the Loch Ness in search of Nessie * Trekking in the Swiss Alps Valley of Lotschental on the trail of the Hairy Man * Struggling with the Hawaiian Lava Tubes Pig Monster * Fending off an attack from an aggressive rock ape at the Rock of Gibraltar * Coming face to face with a Tasmanian tiger in the vast wilds of western Tasmania * Searching for the mysterious Min Min Lights in central Australia All this and much, much more as Tim the Yowie Man investigates those stories that upon hearing you think to yourself, "that can't possibly be true...Or can it?"

In the Spirit of Banjo
In the Spirit of Banjo

Author: Tim the Yowie Man

Publisher:

Published: 2014-12-17

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 9780992506124

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"Cautiously, step by step, I creep down the small white ladder that leads from a trapdoor hidden beneath a bed in room 92 at Duntroon's Cork Block. After just five rungs I reach the bottom.""Water plunges 40 metres off the cliff top with so much gusto that the morning sun rising upstream creates a rainbow through the water spray. It reaches from one side of the falls to the other. Overhead, a lone wedge-tailed eagle, flirting on the updrafts, is dwarfed by the gaping gorge that opens up like a giant's yawn in the ancient landscape below."Waxing lyrical about everything from the windswept rocky crags of the high country to ghost hunting at the Bredbo Inn, Tim the Yowie Man is certainly not your average travel writer. Tim the Yowie Man is also a well known Canberra identity, mystery investigator, sometime radio host, history and ghost tour guide and the National Museum of Australia's 'resident cryptonaturalist'.In the Spirit of Banjo brings together a collection of some of his articles published in The Canberra Times, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Brisbane Times. In the Spirit of Banjo follows Tim's adventures from the nation's capital, to the Southern Highlands, the Snowy Mountains, the Southern Tablelands and the beautiful South Coast of New South Wales where he explores rugged mountain ranges, haunted lighthouses, stunning waterfalls, and other little known historical, ecological and environmental gems. If you are a fan of Tim the Yowie Man then this book is definitely for you, and even if you're not, you will find the words held within these pages compelling to the point that you too may want to follow in the footsteps of the Yowie Man. Who knows what you will find?In the Spirit of Banjo is Tim's guide to Canberra and beyond.

Adventures of Tim
Adventures of Tim

Author: Edward Ardizzone

Publisher:

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13:

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Six stories of Tim a small boy who lived in a house by the sea. Large print easy to read. Illustrations.

Mount Buggery to Nowhere Else
Mount Buggery to Nowhere Else

Author: Eamon Evans

Publisher: Hachette Australia

Published: 2016-10-25

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 0733635598

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The stories behind Australia's many, many strange, inappropriate and downright hilarious place names. From Dismal Swamp to Useless Loop, Intercourse Island to Dead Mans Gully, Mount Buggery to Nowhere Else, Australia has some of the strangest, funniest, weirdest and most out-of-place names going - now described and explained in one humorous and fascinating book. Australia's vast spaces and irreverent, larrikin history have given us some of the best place names in the world. Ranging from the less than positive (Linger and Die Hill, NSW), to the indelicate (Scented Knob, WA), the idiotic (Eggs and Bacon Bay, TAS) to the inappropriate and the just plain fascinating, MOUNT BUGGERY TO NOWHERE ELSE is a toponymical journey through this nation of weird and wonderful places. 'A hilarious and unusual tour of Australia and its history.' DAILY TELEGRAPH

INTERNATIONAL LEGEND TRIPPING
INTERNATIONAL LEGEND TRIPPING

Author: Robert C. Robinson

Publisher: SCB Distributors

Published: 2020-09-11

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 1948803356

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Look outside the box and go on the ultimate adventure! Enter the exciting world of myth and monsters, the paranormal, UFOs and extraterrestrials, lost treasures and mysterious places. Robert Robinson presents this epic guide to the stranger sites around the world and gives you some valuable pointers on legend tripping around the planet. There are large hairy creatures roaming all parts of the world like the Yeti, the yeren, the Alma, and the wildman to name few. England might be the most haunted country in the world but there are haunted places in every part of the world that include castles, old prisons and hotels. Visit places that have a reputation for not only being haunted, but cursed as well. Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) are not just seen in the US, but are a worldwide phenomenon, with people from all over looking toward the skies. There are still hundreds of lost treasures in the world, just waiting to be discovered, and you might be the one to find them. The world is full of mysteries of the unexplained and this book will show you not only where to go, but what to take with you. A great compendium of travel advice and weird sites!

Bold Horizon
Bold Horizon

Author: Matthew Higgins

Publisher: Rosenberg Publishing

Published: 2018-04-02

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780648043904

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What is it like in Australia's high country? Matthew Higgins traces the mountain experience in a rich variety of ways. First, he talks of his own times in the alps as a bushwalker, cross-country skier, historian and oral-history interviewer. Then Matthew profiles a range of people who have worked, lived, or played in the mountains: stockmen; skiers; Indigenous parks officers; rangers; brumby runners (brumby is the word for the wild horses found on the Australian Alps); foresters; authors; tourism operators; and others. Central themes of place, people and story are interwoven with concerns about environmental impact and climate change. An extensive collection of beautiful images helps to tell this magnificent mountain story, from Kosciuszko to Kiandra, Brindabella to Bimberi, and Bogong to Tidbinbilla and beyond. Matthew Higgins has been walking, skiing and researching the Australian high country for decades. He has worked at leading national cultural institutions in Canberra and written numbers of books and numerous articles, while regularly speaking about Australia's Alps to a range of audiences. [Subject: Sociology, Environmental Studies]