From the Big Bang, the Universe, the Milky Way, and the solar system, this book discusses the formation of the Earth with a journey through time, before looking at some rocks ... and there are some very old rocks on the Fleurieu Peninsula. This journey will look at times of mountain building and of glaciation, deltas, rivers, and lakes, with…
Dr John Woodforde and six parrot puddings is a fascinating and authoritative account of the ‘founding’ and survey of South Australia, from the landing at Rapid Bay to the formation of Adelaide, as recounted through the diaries of not only Dr John Woodforde, colonial surgeon, but also Dr George Mayo and Colonel William Light. The book looks at the first…
As a child, Roy McFadyen was placed in Melbourne oprhanages for his parents' convenience. At 15, and in the middle of the Great Depression, he was thrown out of home by his mother into a freezing winter's night and made an epic bicycle ride into the Mallee to become a wheat farmer's labourer. Seeking further consolation in hard work well…
Coromandel Valley resident Glynis Conlon spent many years meticulously researching the history of Alexander Murray's family and the origins of The Biscuit Factory ... the subject of her first book, released during May 2021 for History Month.
A tribute at last to an outstanding woman artist working from 1940s to 2000, this biography by Lorraine McLoughlin features many of Robertson’s works and a DVD containing a catalogue and interview with the Adelaide artist and teacher when she was in her mid-eighties and had retired to Carrickalinga.
In GEORGE TETLOW AND MARK AND JILL PEARSE: Lives in Art, author Lorraine McLoughlin brings together the biographies and art works of three artists from the Yankalilla/ Normanville area on the Fleurieu Peninsula. The DVD includes interviews with George Tetlow in his studio and Mark and Jill Pearse in Bungala House.
An introduction for secondary students to the poetical works of Australia's national poet - Adam Lindsay Gordon - to commemorate his life, 150 years after his tragic death on 24 June 1870. Included is a brief overview of his life plus nine of his well-known poems.
'They called me the versatile man,' Don Ross recalls. 'I put up windmilkls, fixed the trucks; I only had to see a thing done once and I could do it. That's how I was.' 'I've done some mongrel jobs,' he admits, and the worst? 'Shifting bloody c attle. Walking them when it's hot and there's a long way to go…
Starting out with one truck, named ‘The High and the Mighty’, Noel Buntine pioneered a new era in cattle transport in the Top End. Within 20 years, his enterprise, Buntine Roadways, was operating the largest cattle-carrying buyisiness ibn northern Australia. Noel’s honesty and fairness in dealings earned ghuim the accolades synonymous with the name of his first Mack truck. He…
The record-breaking 1950 Melbourne Cup winning horse, Comic Court, and legendary trainer, the late Bart Cummings, were remembered during History Month, May 2018, in a photographic display at Normanville. Comic Court spent his first couple of formative years at the Bowyer brothers' Beau Neire Stud at Normanville. He was stabled, along with other horses, in a building which forms part…
