Sundowner Of The Skies

Download or read book Sundowner of the Skies written by Mary Garden and published by New Holland Publishers. This book was released on 2022-07-04 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Oscar Garden was a pioneering pilot who embodied the daredevil spirit of the golden age of aviation when he successfully flew from London to Sydney in 1930 with only 39 hours of previous flying experience. This largely forgotten feat forms the centrepiece of Mary Garden's powerful biography, which situates Oscar's public exploits in his unhappy private life, and her own troubled memories of a distant father."--backcover.

Download or read book Plumb written by Maurice Gee and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-07-05 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long regarded as one of the finest novels ever written by a New Zealander, Maurice Gee's Plumb introduces us to the intolerant, irascible clergyman George Plumb, one of the most memorable characters in New Zealand literature half saint, half monster, superhuman in his spiritual strength and destructive in his utter self-absorption. What personal...

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Download or read book Merchant Vessels of the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 2152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book My Sundowner and Other Poems written by John Farrell and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Merchant Vessels of the United States ... (including Yachts). written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Plumb Trilogy written by Maurice Gee and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Trilogy brings together the three novels Plumb, Megand Sole Survivorto set up a family saga unrivalled by anything in New Zealand literature. In Plumb, Gee introduces us to the intolerant, irascible clergyman George Plumb. It won the New Zealand Fiction Award and the Wattie Book of the Year Award. Megcontinues the family story with George Plumb's daughter, articulating her personal battles against a backdrop of family traumas and world wars. Sole Survivorfocuses on the career of Duggie Plum, Plumb's grandson, as seen through the eyes of his cousin Raymond Sole, who sharpens the story of his own doomed marriage against that of his relationship to Duggie.