The Nullarbor Kid: Stories from my trucking life by Ray Gilleland

The Nullarbor Kid: Stories from my trucking life by Ray GillelandHe was a pioneer trucker in postwar Australia a time when outback roads were little more than corrugated dirt goat tracks. This is a story of vast distances, ill equipped machines, heat and dust, humour and mateship. 'If you had worked with them, if you had driven with them, if you had had a drink with them, if you had helped them when broken down, you would have been proud to be one of them and called them mates.'Meet Ray Gilleland, pioneer trucker

Gorrie frankly and movingly explores the impact of racism on her family and her life

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easy-to-use format the ideal pocket-size travelling companion

who was sexually abused as a child by a clergy member

author of The Teacher's Secret

As she recalls her pre-revolution life in flashbacks

James Rebanks takes us through a shepherd's year

I emerged from it shiny-faced

candid and provocative

author of Bad Behaviour and co-founder of Kill Your Darlings

and draws on a wealth of vivid examples from his own field experience Brings conceptual issues vividly to life by weaving in portraits of individual 'last speakers' and anecdotes about linguists and their discoveries

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