Thread: Australian History Books - who's read what ?

The Tom Cole Diaries :
Tom Cole - 'Hell West and Crooked' :
Mary Durak - 'Kings in Grass Castles' :
"Who Rides on the River" : 8
"We of the never never" :
"For the term of his natural life" :
"An Australian Women Biography by Pat Rappolt (1905-1978)? :
"Qantas Rising" :
"The Triumph of Failure" :
"Geology is Fun" Reg Sprigg :
"One for the Road" Jack Pollard ed. :
Watkin Tench's journals by Tim Flannery. :
The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes : 6
Dances With Strangers by Inga Clendinnen :
1788 by David Hill :
The great war and Gallipoli. :
"Journeys with Gelignite Jack" :
Robbery Under Arms by Rolf Boldrewood, : 6
Heart of Oak by Bill Leitch : 7
The Peaks Of Lyell by Geoffrey Blainey :
'A Bastard of a Place' by Peter BRUNE :
'Gallipoli' by Les CARLYON ... :
by Geoffrey Blainey :
Black Kettle & Full Moon: Daily Life in a Vanished Australia :
Jumping Over the Wheel (Allen & Unwin 1993) :
by Patsy Adam Smith : Hear the Train Blow : 7
by Jill Kerr Conway:Road to Coorain (Random House, 1990) :
by Andy Macqueen : Barrallier :
the Life and Journeys of by Chris Cunningham :
The Blue Mountains Rediscovered :by Michelle Grattan :
Back on the Wool Track (Vintage Books 2004) :
by David Carnegie, Spinifex and Sand :
"Taming the North", Hudson Fysh :
Foreword by John Flynn. :
"Vision Splendid" published by Winton Shire Council :
Tom Cole 'The Last Paradise' :
'Spears and smoke signals' :
By Gordon Broughton 'Men of the murray' :
'Turn again home' :
'The sliprails are down. :
By Kurt Johansen 'Son of the red :
By Kristen wiedenbach 'Rock star' :
'Mailman of the birdsville track' : 6
1788 by Watkin Tench :
Aldo Massola's 'Journey Into Aboriginal Victoria'. :
"the Great Boomerang" by Ion Idriess..Bearman :
1927......Madmans Island :
1931......Prospecting for gold :
1931......Lasseters last ride : 7
1932......Flynn of the inland : 5
1932......The desert column : 6
1932......Men of the jungle :
1933......Drums of mer :
1933......Gold dust and ashes :
1934......The yellow joss :
1935......Man tracks :
1936......The cattle king : 7
1937......Over the range :
1938......How must australia fight :
1938......Forty fathoms deep :
1939......Cyaniding for gold :
1940......Lightning ridge : 6
1941......Nemarluk...King of the wilds :
1942......Guerilla series :
1.... Shoot to kill :
2.... Sniping :
3.... Guerilla tactics :
4.... Trapping the Jap :
5.... Lurking death :
6.... Scouting :
1943......The great boomerang :
1944......The silent service :
1945......Horrie the wog dog :
1946......In crocodile land :
1947......Isles of despair :
1948......Stone of destiny/ the diamond :
1948......The opium smugglers :
1949......One wet season :
1950......The wild white man of Badu :
1951......Across the nullabor :
1952......Outlaws of the Leopolds :
1953......The red chief :
1954......The nor'westers :
1955......The vanished people :
1956......The silver city : 5
1957......Coral sea calling :
1958......Back o' Cairns :
1959......The tin scratchers :
1960......The wild north :
1961......Tracks of destiny :
1962......My mate Dick :
1963......Our living stone age :
1964......Our stone age mystery :
1968......Challenge of the north :
1969......Opals and sapphires :
The Men who blazed the track". :
"Darwin, Australia's gateway". :
"Pioneer Country". :
"Veins of Carbine Hill". :
"Queen of the North". :
"Campfire Tales". :
"The Last Frontier". :


There is a 2nd hand reasonable condition Patsy Adam Smith book for sale at work, either 'Hear the Train Blow' or 'When We Rode The Rails', I can't recall which.
If anyone is interested, PM me and I can take it off the shelf on Monday and pass on ordering details.
Cheers,
Mark

Since reading Kristin Weidenbachs book " Mailman of The Birdsville Track", about Tom Kruse, I've been trying to get hold of a book mentioned titled "Thirty Years With men", by Harry Ding, who had once been Toms boss.
Finally I've tracked it down and it's still available from
The Rotary club of Walcha,
P.O. Box 1,
Walcha.
NSW 2354
Include payment of twenty dollars and a return address.
I've just finished it. It gives a very good account of the conditions and challenges of outback transport and travel in the 30's and 40', and some good photos of the trucks used.
Don.

May I recommend some books that I have thoroughly enjoyed:

Captain James Cook, a biography- Richard Hough- 1994, hodder @ staunton

Terra Australis, Matthew Flinders circumnavigation, first published 1814, this book pub. 2000, text publishing

The Great Race, between Matthew Flinders @ Nicolas Baudin for the nth. sth passage thru Aust.-Klaus Toft- 2002

The life of Matthew Flinders- Ernest Scott,angus @ robertson2001

The Quetta, Qld's worst maritime disaster, John Foley ,1990

Wrecks on the Qld coast - Jack Loney 1993 [ of interest to divers]

Dutch discoveries of Aust. JP Sigmond / LH Zuiderbaan 1979


Some tales from the bush :

Journey among Men, Jock Marshall/ Russel Drysdale 1962 [good yarn about an zoologist and artist travelling the remotest areas of Aust.]


Ayers Rock- Charles Mountford, -its people, their beliefs, and their art ,1977

Bill Wannan's selected stories of the old west 1979

Hell West @ Crooked- Tom Cole 1988 [ the real crocodile dundee]

Tales from the Northwest- Peter James 1990

Must not forget: A.B." Banjo" Paterson's selected verse

For those interesred in military works, may I recommend:

Monash, the outsider who won a war, Roland Perry[ I.M.O. , a must read for all aussies]

The true story of- The Battle for Singapore, Peter Thompson, fascinating @ terrible at the same time, real eyeopener.

To the bitter end- Lex Mcauley- Japanese defeat at Buna and Gona 1942-43

Kokoda- Paul Ham-[The best book I've read about that campaign]

Timor 1942 - Christopher Wray- Aust. commandos at war with the Japs.

The heroes- Ronald Mckie- True story of the Krait raids on Singapore

Last call of the Bugle -Jack Gallaway- the long road to Kapyong,[ Korea , the forgotten war]

The battle of Long Tan- Lex Mcauley

Tiger Men- Barry Peterson-an Aust. soldiers secret war in Vietnam, working with the Montagnard tribe, for the CIA.

Where fate calls- Tom Frame- Voyager/ Melbourne collision

Sorry for the long list, books are a passion of mine, hope someone finds something they like, Bob

I've just read a really interesting book about a Cattle Duffer named Jimmy Lee who operated around the Benambra diggings in the 1860s.

The Tale of Jimmy Lee. A story of Cattle duffing across the high Country
By: Max Dyer and John Murphy

I must also rcommend One Crowded Hour- Tim Bowden- about Neil Davis, combat cameraman from Tasmania, killed while filming an attempted coup in Thailand. Bob

This Post (on books) gets my vote as the best on the Forum, congratulations, from 2008 to 2011, Regards Frank.

"Dune is a four letter word" by Peg(I think)Sprigg is a good read
Cheers,
mary

No More Beyond: The Life of Hubert Wilkins.

A book about the greatest explorer you've never heard of, who just happens to be an Aussie. Guess who Kingsford Smith bought the "Southern Cross" from? Guess who took some of the most famous WW1 photos? Guess who was the first under the polar ice cap in a submarine?

Its a blinder of a read - a real shame that he goes mostly unsung.