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Adventurers, Pioneers and Misfits: Australia's Most Amazing True Life Stories by Jim Haynes
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
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
All Aboard: Tales of Australian Railways by Jim Haynes and Russell Hannah
$29.95 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: Great Australian S.
With eighty plus evocative black and white photographs peppered throughout the text, the book includes stories by Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain, D.H. Lawrence, Henry Handel Richardson and Henry Lawson, as well as some character pieces by Russell Hannah and Jim Haynes. Also gives accounts of major i ...Show more
Australia's Best Unknown Stories by Jim Haynes
$32.99 AUD
Category: Travel
From Jim Haynes, one of Australia's most successful and prolific authors, comes a collection of classic Australian stories, yarns, and furphies. . . all of them unknown. Things are not always as they seem, or as we've been told. Was the Ghan really named after the Afghan traders, and do we really know w ...Show more
Australia's Most Unbelievable True Stories by Jim Haynes
$23.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
The ultimate collection of unbelievable true Australian stories: the unknown, the forgotten, and the surprising
Best Australian Drinking Stories by Jim Haynes
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
The story of Australia's almost-250-year love affair with alcohol told with yarns, verse, anecdotes and surprising historical narratives "It seemed like a good idea...at the time." --the lament of many a morning after Rum, beer, scotch, wine, beer and more beer. For nearly 250 years Australian history ...Show more
Best Australian Racing Stories by Jim Haynes
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
Ever since he was a kid, Jim Haynes has been captivated by the exciting and colorful world of horse racing. Whether it's the love of a satin-coated thoroughbred, the scurrying touts and coat-tuggers, the surge of a last minute betting plunge in the ring, or the thrill of a close-fought finish that takes ...Show more
Best Australian Racing Stories: From Archer to Makybe Diva by Jim Haynes
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
The finest collection of writing about horse racing includes short stories, verse and anecdotes from some of Australia's best-loved writers.
Best Australian Trucking Stories by Jim Haynes
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
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
Best Gallipoli Yarns and Stories by Jim Haynes
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
A unique collection of poignant, horrorific, sad, and sometimes dryly humorous, stories and yarns from bloody battlefield of Gallipoli.
Great Australian Aviation Stories by Haynes Jim
$29.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Great Australian Stories Ser.
A collection of dramatic, true stories and colourful accounts of our fascinating aviation history featuring personalities and pioneers, history, triumphs, tragedies and near misses. These stories also show the human side of aviation and how it changed the lives of ordinary people, workers and travellers ...Show more
Great Australian Rascals, Rogues and Ratbags: Australia's most colourful criminal characters by Jim Haynes
$32.99 AUD
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
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
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