Me Phar Lap

Author : Jan Wositzky
Publisher : Slattery Media Group
ISBN 13 : 9781921778261
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Me & Phar Lap written by Jan Wositzky and published by Slattery Media Group. This book was released on 2011 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tommy Woodcock spent a long lifetime with horses, but is best remembered, and loved, as the young man who strapped and looked after Australia's legendary racehorse, Phar Lap. The 1930 Melbourne Cup winner and the people's champion of the Great Depression died mysteriously - cradled by Woodcock - in the US after winning against the odds in Agua Caliente, Mexico, at his only start overseas. The horseman called Phar Lap "Bobby", and knew him best. And Woodcock is fondly known, too, as the old man, who almost 50 years on, trained the gallant Reckless, second in the 1977 Melbourne Cup and winner of the other major "two-mile" races on the Australian turf calendar at the time, the Sydney, Adelaide and Brisbane Cups. Reckless is the same horse Woodcock let children ride at the track on race day, and was pictured with bunked down in the straw, on the front page of The Age newspaper. Woodcock's life story and his great and heart-breaking moments with Phar Lap and Reckless are told in his own down-to- earth words by a master storyteller, Jan Wositzky, in this updated and revised edition, with a new introduction.

Author : Geoff Armstrong
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 9781865089942
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Phar Lap written by Geoff Armstrong and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2003 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book studies the many mysteries of Phar Lap's career, including the infamous shooting that occurred just days before his great triumph in the 1930 Melbourne Cup. The book examines the way an emerging media played its part in building the legend. The authors provide an analysis of his previously unexplained death in North America and explain why Phar Lap is much more than a racehorse.

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Publisher : Fremantle Press
ISBN 13 : 1921888288
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Grandad Knew Phar Lap written by and published by Fremantle Press. This book was released on with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : BIFF LOWRY
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 149690253X
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Killing Phar Lap written by BIFF LOWRY and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-04-14 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innumerable books, articles and a full length motion picture have been written and produced about the almost unbelievable career of the magnificent race horse Phar Lap and his mysterious death. Many experts have proclaimed him to be the greatest ever. This book corrects much of the misinformation surrounding his death and opens the door to further theorizing on how and why be died.

Author : Helen Townsend
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Phar Lap written by Helen Townsend and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jackie Kerin
Publisher : Museum Victoria
ISBN 13 : 0980381312
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Phar Lap the Wonder Horse written by Jackie Kerin and published by Museum Victoria. This book was released on 2008 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The story of Phar Lap, the great Australian racehorse, written in ballad form for children."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Paul Cliff
Publisher : National Library Australia
ISBN 13 : 0642107041
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Sporting Nation written by Paul Cliff and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 1999 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Sporting Nation will appeal equally to the serious sports enthusiast and mainstream reader. Its main text comprises excerpts from the Library's oral history recordings, with additional features by Olympian Marlene Mathews, and Eric Rolls and Marion Halligan.Twenty-six richly illustrated features present a broad and popular sweep through the nation's sporting culture, opening with a recollection of the 1956 Melbourne Olympics and a survey of the Sydney 2000 Games by Marlene Mathews.

Author : Will Self
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408850532
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How the Dead Live written by Will Self and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1988 and Lily Bloom, a 65-year-old American lies dying of cancer in a London hospital. As her two daughters buzz around her and the nurses pump her full of morphine, she slides in and out of consciousness, outraged that there is so little time left and so many people still to disparage.

Author : Bernadette Walker
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1462849253
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bernadette It’s Me written by Bernadette Walker and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-09-08 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bernadette Walker’s Bernadette It’s Me provides a glimpse into the life of a lady who unobtrusively lived life to the fullest. Whether it was growing up in inner city Melbourne during the depression and World War Two, her long love affair with the Australian bush, her employment at one of Melbourne’s most respected jewellery stores or her charity work, she appreciated all that filled her days. Running like a constant thread through her story is the love of friends, family and colleagues and it is this very love that she cherished the most. Bernadette also shares over 53 recipes she has collected over the years.

Author : Kim Kelly
Publisher : Brio Books Pty Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1922598283
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blue Mile written by Kim Kelly and published by Brio Books Pty Ltd. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging, entertaining read set in 1930s Sydney against the backdrop of the building of the Sydney Harbour Bridge...evocatively drawn.' - Books+Publishing Broke and hopeless in 1929, Yo O'Keenan flees the violence of his home in Chippendale, and by some miracle charms his way into a job on the Harbour Bridge, a new start for himself and his little sister, Agnes. Meanwhile, on the north side of Sydney, in her cluttered cottage at Lavender Bay, a young and ambitious costumier, Olivia Greene, works on her latest millinery creations, dreaming of taking her colours to Paris, London, New York. A random encounter in the Botanic Gardens sparks a powerful attraction, even as the gulf between this pair seems wider than the blue mile of harbour that divides the city. By mid-1932, the construction of the Bridge is complete, but Sydney is in chaos, on the brink of civil war, as the Great Depression begins to bite - hard. And then Yo disappears. Against the glittering backdrop of Sydney Harbour, The Blue Mile tells of the cruelties of poverty, the wild gamble a city took to build a wonder of the world, and the risks the truly brave will take for a chance at life.