Viking melbourne vic (14 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Pages are sunned. Signed and inscribed by author.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Pages have sunned. A few foxing marks on foredges. Previous owner has signed inside page, now covered with blank ex libris bookplate sticker. Sandy McCutcheon's extraordinary story sheds light on things that affect us whether we're adopted or not: on how memory helps shape our sense of self, on the importance of not harbouring resentment, on the way the heart knows things that the mind does not. And the way life never stops delivering surprises.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Pages are sunned. Foxing mark on right foredge. For Patsy Adam-Smith, WWII was a ticket away from a cherished but restricting life with her railway family. The Depression had taken its toll, and the glorious days of dancing the three-hop polka were fading. Country life held few prospects for a seventeen-year-old. Enlisting as a nurse in the army, Patsy entered adulthood. But the world she encountered posed more challenges than she could have imagined. (book flap) The sequel to Hear the Train Blow.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Tiny mark on inside front cover and half-title page. A true trailblazer, Majak Daw's life is an inspiration to anyone who's ever struggled to belong, felt oppressed or dared to dream big.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Dust jacket has some light creasing at edges and spine. Pages are sunned. Here, in a largely affectionate tribute to the animals with whom Adams and his family share their home, as well as the many animals who have crossed paths with him throughout his life, he shares the stories of a motley bunch of creatures. A funny, sometimes heartwarming, sometimes challenging collection of stories that celebrates the importance of animals in our lives.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Ex library copy with external stickers and protective plastic covering. Stamps on inside pages. Minor wear to book corners. Pages are sunning. Book is clean and binding is very good.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Ex library copy with no external stickers. Stamps on inside pages. Previous owner has inscribed author bio page. Wear to book corners and edges. Pages have sunned. When a top British police chief arrived in Australia to take charge of one of the world's most corrupt forces and also run security for the 2000 Olympic Games He was thrilled by the challenge of the job. The following six years saw triumph betrayal Byzantine politics and unprecedented public support and unrelenting media attacks as he battled full control of NSW Police Service Against almost fanatical resistance to change. Only the truth can be revealed about Peter Ryan's pay rise that London job, the Olympics, the Cabramatta debacle, the bizarre legal machinations that led to the end of his 41 year old police career and his fears for the future of democracy in Australia. (back cover).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Some chipping to book edges at top and tail. Dust jacket has light creasing at edges and spine. Interior and binding are also very good. On 10 March 1965, the first Nasho's birthdate was drawn from a lottery barrel at the Department of Labour and National Service in Melbourne. Over the next seven years, a total of 63740 young Australian men would be drafted into the army and face the prospect of being sent to war. The Nashos came from all walks of life: plumbers and dentists, footballers and musicians, Christians and Jews, willing and unwilling. Some spent their two years square-bashing in Singleton. Others went to Vietnam to fight and die in Australia's bloodiest battles, including the slaughter at Long Tan. But our ideas of national service contain strange contradictions and inaccuracies: that the draft was unpopular but militarily necessary; that the Nashos in Vietnam all volunteered to go to war; and that they were met by protesters and demonstrations on their return to Australia, rather than the huge welcome-home parades reported at the time. Here, Mark Dapin dramatically deconstructs the folklore of Vietnam and national service. Drawing on the accounts of over one hundred and fifty former national servicemen, The Nashos' War tells a vastly more personal and nuanced story of national service and Australia's Vietnam War than that previously heard. Most powerfully, it records with extraordinary intensity what it was like to be a bank clerk one day, and fighting for your life in the jungles of Vietnam soon afterwards. …

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 1st Editon. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges, particularly to front cover right tail corner, now protected with book tape. Interior and binding are still very good. He was a murderer, swindler, bigamist and suspect in the Jack the Ripper killings. Frederick Deeming (1853-1892) ​was also the most hated man in the world. The Devil's Work is a gothic journey into the twisted mind of a serial killer, set in the dying years of the 19th century when science and religion had collided and some of the world's most powerful and influential people believed in spirits and an afterlife.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Dust jacket has light creasing at edges and spine. Interior and binding are still excellent. "Roughy" is the story of a footballer who lived the dream, the country boy who not only became an AFL star, but was a key player in a Hawthorn team that will be remembered as one of the greats of any era. In 2015, a spot on his bottom lip was diagnosed as melanoma and it returned as spots on his lungs the next year. In "Roughy", you'll discover the resilience that got him through horrendous immunotherapy and helped him to not only play AFL again, but as Hawthorn captain. You'll read the stories of his childhood, of the basketballer who switched sports and learned not just to believe, but to expect to be the very best. Of his love for Sarah and their daughter Pippa, his unwavering will to carry on, his dignity through a final chapter of his career that was dignity personified, with a fairytale ending that was celebrated by all.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Interior and binding are still excellent. Signed by Jack Charles.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Pages have sunned. Dust jacket has some light creasing at edges and spine. Interior and binding are still excellent. Kerry Stokes came into the world with no advantages. Unlike his rival magnates, he built his empire from nothing. Kerry Stokes: Self-Made Man is the real, fascinating story behind the rabbits-to-riches ascendancy of one of Australia's most powerful men.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Faint mark on top foredge. Dust jacket has wear to edges and spine. Dust jacket is now enclosed in protective cover. Interior and binding are still excellent. James Francis (Frank) Hurley (1885-1962) was once a household name in Australia. Now most famous for his photographs of the Shackleton Endurance and Mawson Antarctic expeditions, he was also a visual chronicler of many of the significant events of the twentieth century and of a rapidly disappearing non-Western world. He was an official photographer in two world wars, a pioneering documentary-maker, participant in early feats of aviation, and cinematographer on major Australian feature films of the 1930s. At the height of his fame, he even knocked on Hollywood's doors. In his later years, he travelled the length and breadth of his country to produce illustrated books eulogising Australia and its people. …