Great Australian Stories Slipcase

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Great Australian Stories - Droving, Beer and Utes. Why is one of our prime ministers in the Guinness Book of Records? How did beer save the life of a bloke bitten by a bloody great big brown snake? the answers to these and many other burning beer-related questions can be found in the pages of Great Australian Beer Yarns. A funny, frank and fascinating book to flip through while you're enjoying a cold one! Great Australian Droving Stories is a collection of 60 adventures Bill 'Swampy' Marsh travelled around Australia to gather. Find out all about the tough, isolated, often funny and extraordinary lives on the road of the great Australian drover. No matter what you drive, Great Australian Ute Stories will charm you with its laconic humour and Aussie warmth. We invented it, we love it; the ute is a national icon alongside the pie and sauce. It is the very symbol of our resourceful ingenuity.

John Bryant became addicted to motorcycles at 15 after bolting an old motorised wheelchair engine to his push bike. Nearly half a century later he has owned them all: mopeds, scooters, dirt bikes, sports rockets, cruisers, and tourers. His two-wheeled adventures have led him into the volcanoes of NZ, across the prairies and deserts of USA, and around a lot of Oz. John started Australia's first motorcycle wedding escort service by importing six the world's biggest road bikes, dressing his riders in tux jackets, bow ties and white gauntlets. After surviving several wipeouts, he is now growing old disgracefully on two wheels. Born in Bendigo, educated in Melbourne and later marooned in Sydney, Peter Lalor is an award winning author and journalist. He has written a number of books including the best-selling Ned Kelly True Crime prize-winning Blood Stain and The Bridge, a history of The Sydney Harbour Bridge. A cricket writer for The Australian newspaper he has worked as a journalist for 25 years. Bill 'Swampy' Marsh is an award-winning writer/performer of stories, songs and plays. Based in Adelaide, he is best known for his successful Great Australian series of books published with ABC Books: More Great Australian Flying Doctor Stories (2007), Great Australian Railway Stories (2005), Great Australian Droving Stories (2003), Great Australian Shearing Stories (2001), and Great Australian Flying Doctor Stories (1999).