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A Fortunate Life by A.B Facey *D2

A Fortunate Life by A.B Facey Paper back book .Has previous owners name written on the back of the front cover. 322 pages. Born in 1894 and first sent to work at the age of eight, Facey lived the rough frontier life of a labourer and farmer and jackaroo, becoming lost and then rescued by Indigenous trackers, then gaining a hard-won literacy, surviving Gallipoli, raising a family through the Depression, losing a son in the Second World War, and meeting his beloved Evelyn with whom he shared near

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Swan View, WA

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A Fortunate Life By A.B.Facey *E6

A Fortunate Life By A.B.Facey *E6 330 pages Born in 1894 and first sent to work at the age of eight, Facey lived the rough frontier life of a labourer and farmer and jackaroo, becoming lost and then rescued by Indigenous trackers, then gaining a hard-won literacy, surviving Gallipoli, raising a family through the Depression, losing a son in the Second World War, and meeting his beloved Evelyn with whom he shared nearly 60 years of marriage. Despite enduring unimaginable hardships, Facey alway

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Swan View, WA

07/03/2024

Question 7 - Richard Flanagan

Question 7 – Richard Flanagan Like New Condition Unread Hardcover 280 pages Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia 2023 GoodReads Description: By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West’s affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan's father working as a slave labourer near Hiroshima when the atom bomb is dropped, this genre-defying daisy chain of events reaches fission when Flanagan as a young man finds himself trapped in a rapid on a wild river not knowing if he is to live or to die.

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Alphington, VIC

01/02/2024

Heda Margolius Kovaly Prague Farewell Czechoslovakia Slansky

Prague Farewell By Heda Margolius Kovaly A memoir of events in Czechoslovakia surrounding the infamous Slansky Trial, in which the author's young husband was among 11 executed Jews Heda Margolius Kovály was born Heda Blochová to Jewish parents in Prague, Czechoslovakia, where she lived and married her childhood sweetheart, Rudolf Margolius, until 1941 when her family was rounded up along with the first 5,000 of the city's Jewish population and taken to the Lodz Ghetto in central Poland. When th

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Carindale, QLD

13/01/2024

C. Thiele Coorong Captive, Crow on a Barbwire Fence, Captives Choice

Colin Thiele Coorong Captive small book, good condition $10 Crow on a Barbed Wire Fence Harold Lewis $10 Worn spine John Slater Captive's Choice $30 Colin thiele:- The Seed's Inheritance $10 discoloured pages Colin Thiele Australian Animal Verses $5 Favourite Australian Stories edited by Colin Thiele $15 Sun on the Stubble $10 Colin Thiele Robert Ingpen Lincoln's Place The Story of an Australian Pioneer Farm $15 Albatross Two $4, Blue fin $7 age spotted, Differant Blue Fin cover $7 February Dra

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Welcome Creek, QLD

16/08/2023

A Fortunate Life By A.B.Facey Paperback Book *C4

A Fortunate Life By A.B.Facey Paperback Book . 330 Pages. A true classic of Australian literature, Facey's simply penned story offers a unique window onto the history of Australian life through the greater part of the twentieth century - the extraordinary journey of an ordinary man. Albert Facey's story is the story of Australia. Born in 1894, and first sent to work at the age of nine, Facey lived the rough frontier life of a labourer and farmer and jackaroo, becoming lost and then rescued by

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Swan View, WA

15/05/2023

AN ELEPHANT CHARGING MY CHOOKHOUSE Harry Reade / 1st Ed HC/DJ 1987

VINTAGE black hardcover with white imprinting to spine, light shelf wear, small marks to compressed page edge, pages are otherwise unmarked. Unclipped glossy dustjacket has a crease to the spine edge and a tiny chip at the top of the spine. 208 pages, 22 x 14 cms, Lilyfield Publishers Pty. Ltd., first edition 1987. The photographs form part of the description. ISBN-10: ******2106 Autobiography of journalist and cartoonist Harry Reade. Harry Reade travelled with his itinerant father during the G

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Perth, WA

30/01/2023

The Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt $25

Up For Sale is a The Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt for $25 Six thousand years ago ancient Egypt was the cradle of modern civilisation. Powerful pharaohs built great cities on the fertile banks of the Nile, and employed thousands of labourers to create lavish tombs and temples such as Thebes and the pyramids of the Giza plateau. The exceptional beauty and scale of ancient Egypt s antiquities still draws millions of visitors to Egypt s museums and monuments each year. The Encyclopedia of Ancient

$25
Joondalup, WA

17/01/2023

THE TIVINGTON NOTT Alex Miller / PB 2005 Somerset

2 copies available (please read carefully and SPECIFY which copy you prefer, otherwise #1 will automatically be sent): Photo #1 - softcover, very small crease to top corner of cover, pages are unmarked. Includes two photographs. Photo #2 - softcover, very small crease to lower corner of cover, pages are unmarked. Includes two photographs. **SOLD** 167 pages, 19.5 x 13 cms, Allen and Unwin, 2005. The photograph forms part of the description. ISBN-13: 9781741147780 Based on the lives of real peop

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Perth, WA

22/11/2022

Book: Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

Very good condition Hardcover 160 pages GoodReads Description: “I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why.” They are an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face"; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a "family," clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation. Labourers in California's dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence

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Alphington, VIC

26/08/2022

Captain James Cook, Life and Voyages of the Great Navigator (New)

Captain James Cook, Life and Voyages of the Great Navigator (New) By Walter Besant. Book $15, Location pickup is Reservoir. Can post add $10.90 with tracking. JAMES COOK, born 1728, Marton, Yorkshire, England, died 1779, Hawaii. The second son of James Cook, a Yorkshire labourer, and Grace his wife. From the lowest ranks, born to be great, when he began to rise, with each step he assumed, as if it belonged to him, the dignity of his new rank. He discovered the Society Islands; New Zealand to

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Reservoir, VIC

04/07/2022

Patriarchy & Accumation On A World Scale By Mariah Myles

'It is my thesis that this general production of life, or subsistence production - mainly performed through the non-wage labour of women and other non-wage labourers as slaves, contract workers and peasants in the colonies - constitutes the perennial basis upon which "capitalist productive labour" can be built up and exploited.' First published in 1986, Maria Mies's progressive book was hailed as a major paradigm shift for feminist theory, and it remains a major contribution to development the

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Swan View, WA

01/06/2022

After The Battle : Matilda Tanks On Crete (Issue N0. 175)

Thanks for looking at my advert. Postage is free. Just pop me a quick message and I will send you the link to this item on my website. Thanks. Order code ATB-A175 MATILDA TANKS ON CRETE — During the battle for Crete, which lasted from May 20 to June 1, 1941, the British, Dominion and Greek forces defending the island had very little armoured support. Jeffrey Plowman, Michael Grieve and Mark Wilson tell the story of how six and eventually nine Matilda Mk II tanks were used to defend thi

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Blacktown, NSW

19/05/2021

COP THIS LOT Nino Culotta ~ HC/DJ 1st Ed Repr 1969 Illus

Vintage black hardcover with gold imprinting to spine, light mark on compressed page edges, occasional foxing, pages are otherwise unmarked. Unclipped glossy dustjacket has several pieces missing (please see scan) and light watermarks to the reverse. Illustrated endpapers and black and white illustrations by Wep. 220 pages, 19.5 x 13.5 cms, Ure Smith, first edition reprint 1969. The photograph forms part of the description. Giovanni 'Nino' Culotta is an Italian immigrant who came to Australia

$9.95
Perth Region, WA

07/06/2020

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