Search Results: Australiana; Autobiography & Biography from E. Manning Books

Kerr Publishing, 1994. ISBN: 1875703209. Paperback (16 x 24 cm), 204 pages. Very Good condition. Scuffed/scratched with some creases. Soiled on bottom page edge. Weight (before packaging): 410g

Zytal Press, 2006. Signed. Softcover (15 x 21 cm), 394 pages. ISBN: 9780980445107. Very Good condition. Signed by author on title page. Bumped, lightly creased, most notably at corners. "This is a captivating story of life in another century. It's a remarkable tale of desert and jungle survival, finding religion and losing faith, about discovering lust and finding love, about dying in aircraft accidents that didn't happen. It's an inspirational account of a man who set his goals in the sky and achieved them. His hard-working angel keeps saving him during his early travels and later while dodging hidden rocks in clouds. Then spears and gunfire in the third world. A must read true story. Ted Egan, OA ~ Administrator of the Northern Territory." Weight (before packaging): 555g

Hachette Australia, 2012. Softcover (16 x 24 cm), xviii, 382 pages. ISBN: 9780733628672. Very Good condition. Bumped, scuffed. Covers creased. Some pages (corners) creased, dog-eared. "This is the colourful story of Francis Birtles, a fascinating individual who led a life of incredible adventure and exploration in Australia and throughout the world. A narrative account of the life and times of one of Australia's most extraordinary adventurers - a man who crossed Australia more than 70 times in the early part of the 20th century - by bicycle and car. In 1927 he achieved the greatest motoring feat of the times, driving a car from London to Melbourne. This story follows his exploits across scorching Arabic deserts, through steamy Indian jungles and mountain snowstorms." Weight (before packaging): 500g

Thomas Nelson Australia, 1980. Hardcover (14 x 22 cm), viii, 201 pages. ISBN: 0170052613. The book and dust jacket (dj) are in Good condition. Black boards with silver lettering along spine. Slanted spine. Bumped, rubbed (most notably along bottom edges). Pages tanning. The dj is scuffed/scratched, chipped and creased. "Alexander Green dispatched 409 offenders in his official role of Hangman and Finisher of the Law in the colony of New South Wales. A convicted thief, he arrived in Sydney in 1824 on a life sentence. Conditionally pardoned a year later, he soon became official flogger and assistant hangman, graduating to hangman-in-chief, a job he held for nearly thirty years." Weight: 470g

The Watermark Press, 2000. Softcover (18 x 24 cm), 196 pages. ISBN: 0949284521. Very Good condition. Covers lightly creased at corners. Price sticker residue at bottom of first page. "George Roberts was born in Ipswich, Queensland in 1909. He saw his first aeroplane, which landed in a paddock near his house, when he was eight and took his first flight in a flying boat on Moreton Bay in 1920 when he was 10. The Roberts boys were gifted engineers and in Qantas hangars from Perth to Surabaya and Rose Bay, they found the biggest tool shed a kid could ever want. This is the story of an Australian larrikin with a passion for engines, aeroplanes and speed, a man who witnessed and took part in many of the great events of the first century of Australian aviation. George has forgotten nothing, so his story is absorbing, often wildly funny and uniquely Australian. Many of the stories have never been told before, nor many of the photographs previously published." Weight (before packaging): 575g

Mary Roberts, Morven, QLD, Australia, 1998. Paperback (15 x 21 cm), 292 pages. ISBN: 0958588805. Self-published. Inscribed, Signed by Author on title page. Inscription reads "With best wishes Mary N Roberts". Very Good condition. Bumped, scuffed/scratched. Rolled/creased at corners. "The Rough & the Smooth' tells it like it is - a story about the joys and trials of living in outback Australia. A book that brings to life both the intensity of human emotions brought on by isolation, and the fierce beauty of the Queensland bush." Weight (before packaging): 400g

Pan Macmillan Australia, 2001. Softcover (15 x 23 cm), xvi, 266 pages. ISBN: 0732910862. Good condition. Bumped, scuffed. Some creases, most notably at corners (affecting some internal pages). Pages tanning. Weight (before packaging): 405g

Hardie Grant Books, 2008. Hardcover (16 x 24 cm), xiv, 303 pages. ISBN: 9781740665100. The book and dust jacket are in Very Good condition. Bumped, lightly creased. Foxing on top page edge. Weight (before packaging): 600g