Croz Larrikin Kiwi Biker

Author : Graeme Crosby
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
ISBN 13 : 1743096615
Total Pages : 613 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Croz Larrikin Kiwi Biker written by Graeme Crosby and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Larrikin Kiwi Biker tells his story. In 1979 Graeme Crosby arrived in Britain with his worldly possessions in a carry-bag. His racing suit draped over his left shoulder, a scratched helmet in his right hand and just £150 in his wallet, he was ready to take on the world. I lifted up my cracked UV visor with my thumb. 'Which way does the track go and what's the lap record?' I called out over the noise of the valve gear rattling and clanging between my legs. the flag marshal's eyebrows raised in disbelief. I could see him muttering, 'And who the hell do you think you are - Mike Hailwood?'Four years later 'Croz', as he is affectionately known to millions of fans, walked away from the glamour of world championship Grand Prix racing, taking with him a bag full of trophies and his ever-present sense of humour. In that short time he had achieved more than most riders could ever hope for in a lifetime of racing.Become his pillion passenger as he takes you on a fast and furious journey from the grassroots of New Zealand motorcycle racing through Australia, Japan, the UK and Europe. Experience with him the crashes, the pain, the elation of winning and the international controversies. While the politics, boycotts and tragic fatalities make enthralling reading, the common thread is his determination to enjoy life and have fun. And win a few world championships.

Author : Alys Jackson
Publisher : Larrikin House
ISBN 13 : 1922503991
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hugo's Runaway Legs written by Alys Jackson and published by Larrikin House. This book was released on 2022-06-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hugo's legs have run away. They simply didn't want to stay at home where they just lay about. Hugo's legs just wanted out! Hugo Holt's legs have run away and jumped on the bus! Hugo can't do without them. How on earth will he catch his runaway legs?

Author : Lech Blaine
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1743821719
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quarterly Essay 83 Top Blokes written by Lech Blaine and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2021-09-11 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who can be a larrikin and how is it used politically? The figure of the larrikin goes deep in Australian culture. But who can be a larrikin, and what are its political uses? This brilliant essay looks at Australian politics through the prisms of class, egalitarianism and masculinity. Lech Blaine examines some “top blokes,” with particular focus on Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese, but stretching back to Bob Hawke and Kerry Packer. He shows how Morrison brought a cohort of voters over to the Coalition side, “flipping” what was once working-class Labor culture. Blaine weaves his own experiences through the essay as he explores the persona of the Aussie larrikin. What are its hidden contradictions – can a larrikin be female, or Indigenous, say? – and how has it been transformed by an age of affluence and image?

Author : Mike Hyde
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 9781869509781
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twisting Throttle New Zealand written by Mike Hyde and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the top 50 motorcycle rides in New Zealand. When you find yourself alone on the Molesworth, despite knowing that a 4WD or two will soon happen along, there is a strange sense of isolation and a dawning appreciation that if you suffer a puncture or a mechanical hiccup, then your name had better be MacGyver. Twisting Throttle is back. Exhausted from circumnavigations of Australia and America, Mike Hyde saddles up to explore his own back yard. And what a back yard! TWISTING THROTTLE NEW ZEALAND showcases Mike's top 50 motorcycle rides in the Land of the Long White Cloud from Ninety Mile Beach to the Catlins. Whether you're a Kiwi with a bike in the garage or an overseas visitor renting a motorcycle, this book will show you where the best biking roads are: road touring and adventure rides, North Island and South Island.

Author : John Meredith
Publisher : National Library Australia
ISBN 13 : 064210638X
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Real Folk written by John Meredith and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 1995 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographs and stories of over 100 musical old-timers tracked down by the author while collecting traditional music over half a life-time in rural Australia. These men and women of character include descendants of British, Irish and German settlers and Kooris. Their instruments range from organs, accordions and violins to gum-leaves and bones.

Author : Brad Hutchins
Publisher : Black Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781863956598
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Game, Set, Cash! written by Brad Hutchins and published by Black Incorporated. This book was released on 2014 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the hidden and lucrative world of tennis trading. Brad Hutchins has been living a young bloke's dream: being paid to watch sport. The 27-year-old Australian was employed by a secret gambling syndicate to follow the pro tennis circuit as a sports trader, using his mobile phone to relay results and beat online gamblers to the big pay-offs. His stories from the road would make anyone jealous: watching the world's best tennis players and partying in a new country every week, with cash to burn and no strings attached. But like card counters in casinos, sports traders are despised by the tennis establishment. The more time Brad spends courtside, the harder it becomes for him to evade the security guards who are hell-bent on ejecting him from the game. Game, Set, Cash! will appeal to anyone who loves scallywag stories in the spirit of The Wolf of Wall Street or Paul Carter's Don't Tell Mum I Work On the Rigs. 'A terrific read, and not just another 'racket'. Hutchins shines!' - Paul Carter, author of Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs: She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse.

Author : Misha Kavka
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gothic NZ written by Misha Kavka and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How gothic is Kiwi culture? From Martin Edmond's abandoned houses to Saskia Leek's ghost paintings, from Peter Jackson's movies to gory traffic-accident billboards and Otis Frizzell's tattoos--there's plenty of it, as this anthology reveals.--Back cover.

Author : Julie Coleman
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191630721
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of Slang written by Julie Coleman and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2012-03-08 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the development of English slang from the earliest records to the latest tweet. It explores why and how slang is used, and traces the development of slang in English-speaking nations around the world. The records of the Old Bailey and machine-searchable newspaper collections provide a wealth of new information about historical slang, while blogs and tweets provide us with a completely new perspective on contemporary slang. Based on inside information from real live slang users as well as the best scholarly sources, this book is guaranteed to teach you some new words that you shouldn't use in polite company. Teachers, politicians, broadcasters, and parents characterize the language of teenagers as sloppy, repetitive, and unintelligent, but these complaints are nothing new. In 1906, an Australian journalist overheard some youths on a street-corner: Things will be bally slow till next pay-day. I've done in nearly all my spond. Here, now; cheese it, or I'll lob one in your lug. Lend us a cigarette. Lend it; oh, no, I don't part. Look out, here's a bobby going to tell us to shove along. What, he wondered, was the world coming to. For the 411, read on ...

Author : Mark McCrindle
Publisher : The ABC of XYZ
ISBN 13 : 1920831851
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Word Up written by Mark McCrindle and published by The ABC of XYZ. This book was released on 2011 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone says the English language is changing in this global digital age. Everyone says the generations don't understand each other. Word Up is the complete up-to-date Australian guide to where our language is headed. Fascinating, colourful, easy to use and full of surprises. Includes a youth lexicon.

Author : Doug Wilhelm
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615561783
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book True Shoes written by Doug Wilhelm and published by . This book was released on 2012-03-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The kids from The revealers are back, entering eighth grade at Parkland Middle school, where they have to cope with the super-popular kids and the ugly truth about online bullying.