To many Australians, Bob Brown remains a beacon of hope. Hope for a better environment, hope for a more compassionate Australia, hope for a better world.Bob Brown: Gentle Revolutionary is a candid, compelling and very personal account of the man who took the Greens from the political wilderness into the political mainstream and redefined Australian politics along the way. It is a journey that has been anything but easy.In this first full biography of the person see...

Most love stories are pretty much the same. A man and a woman come together, fall in love, and pursue their dreams of happiness. Yet each story is as unique as the individual lovers. In this story, the couple struggle against great odds not only for their love for each other but also for the continuation of a family line that is threatened with the real possibility of extinction. The driving force comes from the love, strength, wisdom, and spirituality of the matriarch. She supplies the st...

In 1787 prisoners are shipped from Newgate Jail to found a new penal colony in Botany Bay, New South Wales. Amongst them is Hugh Tallant, an American medical student who had been wrongly imprisoned. During the sea journey he begins to clash with the villainous Captain Gilbert and is soon plotting a full-scale mutiny against him. A great companion read with Mutiny on the Bounty!

Returning from the horrors of World War I James Hall and Charles Nordhoff follow a dream to tour the South Pacific. They had a highly successful literary partnership that lasted nearly 30 year and produced several worldwide bestsellers.The authors of the "Mutiny on the Bounty" trilogy present a travelogue look at French Polynesia in the 1920's. Although non-fiction, it relates the stories and lifestyles of natives, scalawags, and (yes) imperialists in a very readable and highly ente...

This brief narrative is by no means a complete record of life in a battalion of one of Lord Kitchener's first armies. It is, rather, a story in outline, a mere suggestion of that life as it is lived in the British lines along the western front. If those who read gain thereby a more intimate view of trench warfare, and of the men who are so gallantly and cheerfully laying down their lives for England, the purpose of the writer will have been accomplished.

War in the Sky for the first time in history! The first military Air Force, the French Lafayette Escadrille, accepts Americans to train and serve as pilots prior to America's entyr into World War One. James Norman Hall, on of these young men, describes his frightening experiences flying over enemy lines, and his soul searching when commanded to kill. He recounts his training in a French flight school on wooden bi-planes, his warm friebndships with other trainees and a crash landing in Germ...

"Kitchener's Mob: Adventures of an American in the British Army" by James Norman Hall is a captivating account of the author's experiences as an American volunteer in the British Army during World War I. Hall's narrative is filled with vivid descriptions of the camaraderie among soldiers, the challenges they faced, and the stark realities of war. His unique perspective as an outsider provides readers with an engaging view of military life and the complexities of international conflict, mak...

This astounding ocean tale, inspired by real events, will thrill readers young and old with its action-packed account of treachery and survival in the South Pacific.Cherished as one of the most thrilling sea adventures ever recorded, Mutiny on the Bounty has sold millions of copies and enthralled generations of readers around the world in the eight decades since its initial publication. The novel reprises a true story—the strange, eventful, and tragic voyage of His...

A "superb story of adventure and conflict" (Saturday Review), this action-packed novel follows the mutineers of the Bounty as they take refuge on the loneliest island in the Pacific.In the annals of seafaring there is no more fascinating account of South Seas adventure than Pitcairn's Island. The novel unfolds a tale of desperation, profligacy, and betrayal as it chronicles the fate of Fletcher Christian, his fellow mutineers aboard H.M.S. Bou...

High Adventure is James Norman Hall's lucid memoir of flying with the Lafayette Escadrille and the American Air Service in the First World War. From muddy forward fields to frigid patrols over the lines, Hall renders the improvisational tactics and fragile courage of early combat aviation—balloon attacks, escort work, sudden spirals of tracer and fabric—through clean prose that favors close observation over rhetoric. Composed near the war's end, it stands among the earliest American eyewit...

I don't remember precisely when it was that Nordhoff and I first talked of this adventure. The idea had grown upon us, one might say, with the gradual splendor of a tropical sunrise. We were far removed from the tropics at that time. We were, in fact, in Paris and had behind us the greatest adventure we shall ever know. On the Place de la Concorde and along the Champs-Élysées stood rank on rank of German cannon, silent enough now, but still menacing, their muzzles tilted skyward at that om...

Challenging the conventional wisdom surrounding high oil prices, this compelling argument sheds an entirely new light on free-market industry fundamentals. By deciphering past, present, and future geopolitical events, it makes the case that oil pricing and availability have a long history of being employed as economic weapons by the United States. Despite ample world supplies and reserves, high prices are now being used to try to rein in China—a reverse of the low-price strategy used in th...