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Adventurers, Pioneers and Misfits: Australia's Most Amazing True Life Stories by Jim Haynes
Category: Australian Culture
From an eccentric musical genius to an escaped convict who ended up Japan, Jim Haynes reveals some of Australia's most amazing, and sometimes unbelievable, true life stories
Best Australian Trucking Stories by Jim Haynes
Category: Australian Culture
The trucker's job-so vital to our nation's everyday life-makes for a diverse treasure trove of stories.This first-ever collection of stories about Aussie truckers captures the humour, tragedy and fascinating history of their world, proving once again that truth is often stranger, funnier and more inspir ...Show more
Great Australian Rascals, Rogues and Ratbags: Australia's most colourful criminal characters by Jim Haynes
Category: History
An incredible collection of true crime characters from Australia's master storyteller. The bold, the bad and the slightly mad . . . in Great Australian Rascals, Rogues and Ratbags, Jim Haynes brings us fifteen larger-than-life Aussies - some of the greatest, and most unknown, ne'er do wells from Austral ...Show more
Great Australian Scams, Cons and Rorts: A Book of Dodgy Schemes and Crazy Dreams from the Bush to the City by Jim Haynes
Category: Australian Culture
Australia is the birthplace and setting of some of the wildest, craziest and least-likely-to-succeed cons and rorts in history. From the cleverest double-crosses to the most unlikely and maddest schemes, master storyteller Jim Haynes reminds us that we've never been shy of pulling a trick or two.So how ...Show more
Great Furphies of Australian History: What you really need to know - the truth behind the myths by Jim Haynes
Category: History
Jim Haynes upturns some of the long-held myths of Australian history with surprising results. With all the skills of the master storyteller that he is, Jim Haynes exposes some of the great myths of Australian history. Did you know that Portuguese and Spanish explorers probably found the east coast of Au ...Show more
Heroes, Rebels and Radicals of Convict Australia by Jim Haynes
Category: History
Australia's most amazing characters of the convict age. In Heroes, Rebels and Radicals of Convict Australia, our master storyteller Jim Haynes has collected a fascinating cast of characters who embody the resourcefulness, bravery, defiance, successes and tragedies of the convict era, the men and women w ...Show more
The Best Australian Yarns: And Other True Stories by Jim Haynes
Category: Australian Culture
Best Australian Yarns is a substantial and definitive collection of factual and fanciful Aussie stories, humor, and anecdotes--the result of decades of researching popular Aussie culture and history, and yarning to mates and other colorful characters from all parts of Australia.This collection includes ...Show more
The Big Book of Australia's War Stories by Jim Haynes
Category: Military
Here are the stories of Australia's iconic battles and campaigns from the time of federation to the Vietnam War. Some are still household names, although their historical significance may be a mystery to most Aussies. Others are barely remembered now, but are part in our history and deserve to be retold ...Show more
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