Sachbücher / Non-fiction

Before utes, planes and helicopters, mustering and droving were done by a group of men who, on horseback, would move thousands of head of cattle and sheep vast distances in the search for better grazing.

It was an isolated and often difficult life, but one frequently filled with adventure and great humour. Bill 'Swampy' Marsh has travelled throughout Australia to make sure the voices and stories of these wry, tough men are not lost forever.

In this collection of sixty adventures you will find out about the extraordinary lives on the road of the great Australian drover.

The book explores the isolated and difficult, but adventurous, lifestyle this entailed. Includes photos. Author is an award-winning writer and performer of stories, songs and plays. His other titles include, amongst others, Great Australian Shearing Stories and Great Australian Railway Stories.

Bill Marsh has crafted an enthralling swag of first-hand accounts from all walks of life just in time, before reality vanishes into urban myth. With fascination we eavesdrop on wonderful, frightening, hilarious, tragic and poignant true stories, but we have more than just a remarkable anecdotal record – we have a chronicle that keeps us in touch with the independent, inspired, and often larrikin-spirited pioneers of Australia's inland.

' "What can we do now?" we were thinking (now that one of the pack of dogs had eaten the chap's amputated finger). "Okay, we can knock these dogs out, open them up one by one. Then, when we find the finger we can assess the situation and take it from there." But the fellow must have read our minds. "Ah," he said, "take me word fer it. The finger was pretty much stuffed. What's more, there's no bloody way yer gonna cut open any of my dogs just to look fer me missing finger. I got nine of the buggers left, anyways." '

Nach seinem ersten Buch "Australische Busch-Blütenessenzen" (1991), das weltweit ein Bestseller wurde und auf deutsch im Laredo-Verlag erschien, liegt mit Ian Whites zweitem Werk (1999 in Australien erschienen) nun der lang erwartete Folgeband vor.
Aus dessen Inhalt:

Die Heilqualitäten von 12 neuen Bush-Blütenessenzen
Neueste Forschungsergebnisse aus der Anwendung der ersten 50 Bush-Flower-Essenzen
Rezepturen für Kombinationsmittel und Begleiter-Essenzen
Repertorien der körperlichen und emotionalen Symtome
Gefühlsstörungen und deren Ausgleich während der Schwangerschaft und im Arbeitsleben
Iris-Diagnose
Ziele setzen und Ziele erreichen
Astrologie, Gesundheit und Essenzen

Format 23 x 16 cm, teilweise 4farbig 25 Fotos, 12 Zeichungen, 150 Seiten Repertorium Fadenheftung,PUR-Bindung

A brilliant account of 200 years of Tasmanian history and an acclaimed writer's discovery of his secret connection with that island and its past.

In Tasmania on holiday, novelist and Chatwin biographer Nicholas Shakespeare discovered a house on a 9-mile beach and instantly decided this was where he wanted to live. He didn't know then that his ancestor was the corrupt and colourful Anthony Fenn Kemp, now known as ‘the Father of Tasmania', or that he would find relatives living on the island.

Shakespeare interweaves his personal journey into a new-found paradise with a brilliant account of the two turbulent centuries of Tasmania's history in this fascinating and timely book. ‘A delightful book. Nicholas Shakespeare is a fine story teller and here he unveils for us a compendium of fascinating Tasmanian characters past and present, from bankrupt squires to convict cannibals, from love struck romantics to the captivating monstrous Anthony Fenn Kemp, the Flashman of early colonial Australia. From all these lives Shakespeare builds up a rich and powerful portrait of this intriguing land, his adopted home.' - Matthew Kneale

A brilliant account of 200 years of Tasmanian history and an acclaimed writer's discovery of his secret connection with that island and its past.

In Tasmania on holiday, novelist and Chatwin biographer Nicholas Shakespeare discovered a house on a 9-mile beach and instantly decided this was where he wanted to live. He didn't know then that his ancestor was the corrupt and colourful Anthony Fenn Kemp, now known as ‘the Father of Tasmania', or that he would find relatives living on the island.

Shakespeare interweaves his personal journey into a new-found paradise with a brilliant account of the two turbulent centuries of Tasmania's history in this fascinating and timely book. ‘A delightful book. Nicholas Shakespeare is a fine story teller and here he unveils for us a compendium of fascinating Tasmanian characters past and present, from bankrupt squires to convict cannibals, from love struck romantics to the captivating monstrous Anthony Fenn Kemp, the Flashman of early colonial Australia. From all these lives Shakespeare builds up a rich and powerful portrait of this intriguing land, his adopted home.' - Matthew Kneale

Mit seinem zutiefst persönlichen Tasmanien-Porträt gelingt Nicholas Shakespeare, was vor ihm nur Bruce Chatwin mit seinem berühmten Buch In Patagonien gelungen ist: Die Erkundung einer Landschaft und ihrer rauen Geschichte wird zum literarischen Ereignis.
Shakespeares Titelwahl verdeutlicht, dass hier auch ein Duell mit Bruce Chatwins In Patagonien stattfindet - ein Duell, bei dem Shakespeares Buch in jeder Hinsicht triumphiert (Daily Telegraph).
Mit den Abenteuern seiner Vorfahren erzählt Shakespeare zugleich die raue Geschichte dieser Insel am Ende der Welt.
Originaltitel: In Tasmania: A House at the End of the World

Australians and their Driza-Bones

This beautifully illustrated book retells many of the Legends, Lore And Lies which surround this national icon, from its beginnings on storm-tossed sailing ships last century to its adoption as part of Australia's national attire.

Eine magische Reise zu sich Selbst: Wild lebende Delfine - Bobbie Sandoz schwimmt mit diesen faszinierenden Tieren, naehert sich ihnen behutsam - und lernt sie zu verstehen. In ihrem ruehrenden Buch entfuehrt sie Leser auf eine ungewoehnliche Reise in innere Welten und Bewusstseinstraeume. Wer hier mit eintaucht und den Botschaften der Delfine folgt, haelt den Schluessel zu einem gluecklichen, sinnerfuellten Leben in den Haenden...