Wrecks, Mysteries and Mishaps in Lady Bay Warrnambool by Gregory Wane
$22.00 AUD
Category: Local Nonfiction
Warrnambool and its curved Lady Bay was, in the 1870s, a busy seaport on Victoria's coastline, but the bay is also one of the most treacherous. Reefs, dangerous currents and unpredictable weather threatened ships and seafarers. It has been the scene of serious shipwrecks, human tragedies, major incident ...Show more
Port Fairy ~ a Likely Story! by Leonie Needham
$20.00 AUD
Category: Local Nonfiction
Stories relating to the history of the early settlement of Port Fairy, and some of the characters involved in its development.
Tale Of Two Cities: History Of Modern Warrnambool by Gordon Forth
$20.00 AUD
Category: Local Nonfiction
All round Australia a phenomenon is emerging. While country centres stagnate or decline, some have transformed themselves into "regional cities" that grow and grow, dominating large catchments far beyond their local districts. The modern story of Wagga and Alice Springs, Mackay and Bunbury, is the story ...Show more
Aristocracy, Squatters and Presbyterians; Reverend David Kay and Caroline Hoste - A Journey Through Scotland, England, Italy, Australia and New Zealand by Robert McLaren
$40.00 AUD
Category: Local Nonfiction
The Reverend David Kay and his wife, Caroline Hoste were the original odd couple. The Rev. Kay was the son of a shoemaker in rural Scotland, whilst Miss Hoste was the daughter of a famous Royal Navy captain, Sir William Hoste. The couple lived in Genoa, Italy through the 1850s and witnessed the struggle ...Show more
You Will Go Won't You? by Bob Handby
$29.99 AUD
Category: Local Nonfiction
A telephone call 'out of the blue' started Bob's 30 year career with the Red Cross and Red Crescent evaluating and providing safe water and public health projects throughout the world.Released from his duties in local government, he undertook humanitarian missions to conflicts including the 'Bush War' i ...Show more
Walk Like a Cow: A Memoir by Brendan Ryan
$25.00 AUD
Category: Local Nonfiction
Australian poet Brendan Ryan speaks about his life in this memoir of "the child, the youth and the young man finding his footing amidst the mysteries of cows and the ruthless cycles of the farm, the dry-eyed melancholy of the milking-shed and the mercy of the weather. Here also are the puzzles of existe ...Show more