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The Adventures
of a Kid on an Outback Goldmine'
Peter Turner
A humourous true story of Growing Up in Australia's Last
Goldrush Town, Tennant Creek, Northern Territory 10 years to Adult.
Peter Turner lived on 'Nobles Nob' Goldmine 14 km from Tennant Creek
from the age of 6 to 16 years. The stories told in this book are in
the style of an Australian Tom Sawyer - a larrikin kid and his free
life of fun and feuds in the bush.
Ebook $10
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NOSTALGIA
Inland north from Port August to the Barkly Tableland,
From the eastern blue-gray mountains to the
Murchison’s red sand,
The plains and hidden valleys thoughout that vast terrain
Know the heavy heady perfume
Of Mulga after rain.
Than you huddle in scant shelter as the daylight turns to rust,
And the wind blasts jagged patterns in the
blinding choking dust,
The storm swirls muddy torrents, thunder
crashes in your brain,
Welcome then the soothing fragrance
Of mulga greeting rain.
The glorious inland sunrise paints morning over night,
The rainbow’s changing colour blends to
sunshine golden bright,
The beauty of the inland, so intense it’s almost pain,
Then the freshly scented breezes
Tell of mulga soft with rain.
The spinifex is blooming in wide fields like golden wheat
And parakeelya spreading in the shadows lush and sweet,
Myriad eyes of black and scarlet, Sturt peas
cover all the plain,
But the delicate aroma Is of mulga green with rain.
The everlasting daisies form a carpet pink and white,
A fairyland of frosting, a vision of delight,
Ghost gums dance in mystic moonlight to a whispering refrain,
Yet the spirit of the inland
Lives in mulga after rain.
See the glory of the inland as you travel far and wide,
Blooming flowers in the deserts where the willy willies ride,
But the haunting living memory to bring you back again,
Is the breath of pure nostalgia
Born of mulga scented rain.
Poem
by Dick Turner (c) Joan Small 2000
To
download the poem
'Jack
Noble of Nobles Nob' Click Here
 
 Adventures
of A Free Settler in Australia
A Rollicking Tale, 1848 - 1896
Edited by Joan Small
This
humourous true story was written by James Dannock in 1896 about how
he came to Australia as a 'Norfolk Dumpling'on the ship Castle Eden
in 1848 and his adventures in the developing colony of Australia.
Read about the heady days of the Goldrush in Victoria, and the West.
There's encounters with aborigines, shark bite in the ocean, the bushfires
of 'Black Thursday' and more
Ebook $10
"General
Gordon Bennett and the
Battle of Western Australia"
"General Gordon Bennett
and the Battle of
Western Australia"
Dick Turner reveals the
little-known story of how
General Gordon Bennett
used subterfuge in Western Australia during WWII to fool the Japanese and thus prevent them attacking the nation from the west.
Dick Turner was a country
accountant who heard and
saw evidence of this amazing
bloodless "Battle of
Western Australia.
Ebook $5.00AU
BROWNLOCK We
thought his name was Brownlock.
He was our son's first horse.
A funny sounding name but still
We kept his name of course.
Much later we discovered,
By stockmen he was known.
'Old Skinny' was his handle then,
For he was skin and bone.
A seasoned horse was Brownlock,
And stubborn as a mule.
Despite his stubborn nature though
This horse was no-one's fool.
He'd throw his head back, staring.
For men he wouldn't stand.
But for the kids and ladies, he
Would eat out of the hand.
Our Ray at only nine years
Embarked on training stress,
But who was training who, and how,
Was anybody's guess.
(Contd) © Joan
Small July 2005
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poem 'Brownlock'
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