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  • Gulf Country Gambit
    Greg Barron
    Josh Tucker is fourteen, and fishing and four-wheel-driving is his life. Not only that, but his family run the most exciting new tagalong adventure tour company in Australia.Join them on their first big trip - into the wild Gulf Country where they encounter river monsters, barra, mud crabs, mackerel and feral pigs. Once again there’s an interesting bunch of outdoor enthusiasts ...
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    8,65 €

  • Whistler’s Bones (Trade/Collectors Edition)
    Greg Barron
     At the age of fifteen, Charlie left his home in Bendigo and signed on as a drover with Nat Buchanan. Two years later he was a key man on one of Australia’s greatest cattle drives – the Durack family’s two-year journey from Cooper’s Creek, Queensland – to the Kimberley. Stumbling on Charlie’s largely unknown story, and filling in the gaps with fiction, the author has created a ...
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    15,46 €

  • Wild Dog River
    Greg Barron
    In 1973 Pete Livermore returns from service in Vietnam, and lands a cadetship with the Cairns Post. After months of court reports and sports articles the editor, Brian Grayling, gives Pete a special assignment. Heading north by boat, he lands at a remote Cape York waterway called the Wild Dog River. His job is to write a story on a camp of itinerants, many of them veterans, com...
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    13,67 €

  • The Pedestrian
    Greg Barron
    As a child, Frederick Morton lives with his broken family in a Stepney slum, mudlarking on the Thames riverbank to survive. Through the sponsorship of Lord Bartholomew Forgill, Frederick gains a top-notch education. One night, however, staying at the Forgill residence, he witnesses a distressing incident that will haunt him through the years.At twenty-five, now an engineer in L...
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    21,88 €

  • Will Jones and the Blue Dog
    Greg Barron
    While running from the law across the New South Wales border, Will Jones and his crew join forces to stop a runaway wagon, saving the life of the terrified driver. On board, inside a tea chest, is a precious cargo - a new breed of pups that will one day become known as Queensland blue heelers. The smallest of the pups appears to be injured beyond repair. Can he be saved? The ow...
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    14,19 €

  • Beyond the Big Bend
    Greg Barron
    In the early 1850s everyone knows that the Murray River has potential for river traffic. It takes months for drays to bring stores to isolated stations, and sheds packed with wool bales wait for transport to market.  The South Australian government offers a cash reward for the captains of the first two steam-powered vessels to not only arrive at the Murray, but travel upstream ...
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    14,27 €

  • Will Jones and the Dead Man’s Letter
    Greg Barron
    When a horseman rides into camp, with a bullet hole in his gut and not long for this world, Will Jones finds not only that the dying man has a gang of New South Wales mounted police on his tail, but a canvas-wrapped parcel in his saddle bags. A scrawled address includes the promise of a reward to deliver the package to a station-owner in Western Queensland.With two mates, and a...
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    13,32 €

  • The Last Days of Dom Sebastian
    Greg Barron
    How can I rest until this story is told? Can I let such a tale slip unnoticed into history? Or allow men to take liberties, inventing lies about that which is precious to me? I, Luis Pereira, Dom Sebastian’s friend and confessor, can alone let the truth stand for posterity... Dom Sebastian, the deposed king of Portugal, after losing the battle of Alcácer Quibir in Morocco, flee...
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    18,99 €

  • The Time of Thunder
    Greg Barron
    In Australia’s Northern Territory, NORFORCE Sergeant Jamie McKinnon is ordered to escort a group of Americans into Arnhem Land, one of the world’s last great wildernesses. Yet what begins as a field assignment becomes a journey into Jamie’s own identity.Danny Carter was a schoolboy during the Korean War, growing up with the mystery of his airman brother’s disappearance. As Dann...
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    10,61 €

  • Red Jack and the Ragged Thirteen
    Greg Barron
    They called her Red Jack, for her hair was as bright as an outback sunset, hanging to her waist from beneath a stained cattleman’s hat. On her jet-black stallion, Mephistopheles, she roved the north in the 1880s and 90s. Where did she come from, and where did she go? No one knows for sure, but the mystery lives on.The Ragged Thirteen were a band of thirteen larrikins who put th...
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    12,57 €

  • Whistler’s Bones
    Greg Barron
     At the age of fifteen, Charlie left his home in Bendigo and signed on as a drover with Nat Buchanan. Two years later he was a key man on one of Australia’s greatest cattle drives – the Durack family’s two-year journey from Cooper’s Creek, Queensland – to the Kimberley. Stumbling on Charlie’s largely unknown story, and filling in the gaps with fiction, the author has created a ...
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    12,27 €

  • Galloping Jones
    Greg Barron
    Galloping Jones was a bare-knuckle-fighting larrikin who could tame any horse. Moondyne Joe escaped prison using an ingenious plan that made a whole colony laugh. Caroline Coleman was a settler who raised her children in Western Queensland, and buried her husband behind the store they built near the Thomson River. Nemarluk was an Aboriginal freedom fighter, who terrorised the D...
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    10,57 €