LIBROS DEL AUTOR: ian braybrook

5 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: ian braybrook

  • Bush Wireless
    Ian Braybrook
    Community radio was new to country Victoria when 3CCC began in Castlemaine. It actually broadcast from Harcourt, 8 km from the town, from a studio built in a disused railway building. Most of the locals had heard vague reports of a couple of community stations in Melbourne, but not always good reports. FM radio was unknown, therefore 3CCC had to work hard to gain acceptance. Wi...
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    26,52 €

  • The Land We Love
    Ian Braybrook
    This is a concise and easily absorbed account of the events and people that established the heart of Central Victoria.It describes the people who were the first white settlers in the Loddon-Campaspe districts. It details their trials and activities, including their relationship with the local Aboriginal people.It links the settlements on the continent’s east and south coasts an...
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    20,05 €

  • Six Ha’pennies
    Ian Braybrook
    Sentenced to life in the Colony of New South Wales by the Essex Assizes, Abraham Braybrook’s story is unique.On arrival in Sydney in November 1834, convict number 2480 was assigned to a powerful ex-military man and squatter as a farm hand. He worked growing fruit and vegetables at The Field of Mars district near Parramatta. Then in 1837, as part of a pioneering group, he was am...
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    19,24 €

  • The Changing Times
    Ian Braybrook
    Ian Braybrook was a radio broadcaster in Central Victoria for many years. His childhood and early teen years are far removed from the “glamour” of that job.Ian’s family was desperately poor and the early death of his father had a far-reaching effect on his life. By the age of thirteen, when he got his fi rst job, he had lived in twenty homes and changed schools ten times.His st...
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    18,35 €

  • Sarah’s Search
    Ian Braybrook / Marilyn Bennet
    In 1874 a woman established an enterprise high on the eastern slopes of Mount Alexander in Central Victoria. Its purpose was to grow thousands of mulberry trees, to feed silkworms, produce silk, and train women in the silk industry. This is a must read account of the efforts of one pioneer woman to establish a silk industry in Australia. It moves from Corowa on the Murray River...
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    15,86 €