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Toronto: York University, 2002 Book. As New. Hardcover. First Thus.. On the Emigration of English single women to Canada and Australia 1862-1930. PhD.Thesis submittd to York University 2002. 318 leaves + bibliography.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1965 Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st UK Edition.. Second Impression. "This is the fascinating story of an ordinary man who did extraordinary things in a critical situation. On the day after the landing at Gallipoli he found a donkey and used it to bring wounded men from the top of Shrapnel Gully to the casualty station on the beach." 96p plates bibliography.

Melbourne, Australia: McPhee Gribble Publishers, 1984 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Australian Edition. First hand accounts in letters and diaries of the conditions experienced by the women who settled the Australian Bush in the 19th century. "From Annie Baxter, writing to sustain herself through a miserable marriage to a military man and failed farmer, to Ellen Moger, whose letter to her parents told of the death of three of her four young children from starvation on the journey out, women wrote to keep in touch with their old lives and to make some kind of private sense of the new. Yet all would have agreed with Annie Baxter when, after being bled with a penkife, she wrote to a friend, "Oh! ye nervous ladies, never come to the bush!"" 284p. illus bibliography. Donor inscription. else fine..

Sydney, Australia: HarperCollins, 2007 Book. New. Soft cover. Re-issue. Banned in 1916, "The Straights Impregnable" . the 'best book on Gallipoli' now returns to print. As a young soldier in the battlefields of Gallipoli, Sydney Loch witnessed the horror of war first hand. His journal of what he saw became a book on his return to Australia. Hoping to avoid military censorship, his publishers dubbed Sydney's book a novel: 'The Straits Impregnable'. But as the war ground on and numbers of casualties grew, the publisher inserted a note saying the book was in fact true. 'The Straits Impregnable', which had enjoyed huge literary acclaim, was immediately withdrawn from sale by the censors. Sydney Loch's experiences in the war, shaped his life afterwards. With his wife, Joice Loch, he would go on to work in refugee camps in Poland and Palestine, at the Amerian Farm School in Thessaloniki and finally at Ouranopolis near Mt.Atho. In 'To Hell and Back',… Read More