Tag: Outback

Outback Midwife [Audiobook]


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July 12, 2015 | English | ASIN: B011DDD7VQ | 9 hrs 2 mins | M4B & MP3 @63 kbps | 246.6 to 249.7 MB | Unabridged | Retail
Author: Beth McRae | Narrator: Caroline Lee
Outback Midwife is the story of Beth McRae’s 40 years as a midwife, from her terrifying first day witnessing a birth as a naïve student nurse to her training as a midwife – the days when the words ‘birth plan’ were unheard of and what women wanted was a long way from being part of any plan – to the outback.
Beth’s career of catching babies takes her from the city to the bush, bonding with people from all walks of life at one of the most critical moments in their lives. But there was one more frontier she was determined to conquer.

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Outback Cop [Audioboook]


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23-02-17 | English | ASIN: B06WW6BF9Y | 9 hrs 50 mins | M4B & MP3 @63 kbps | 268.3 to 271.5 MB | Unabridged | Retail
Authors: Evan McHugh, Neale McShane | Narrators: David Tredinnick, Neale McShane
Birdsville is one of the most remote police postings in Australia.
It can be lonely and uneventful for weeks, then the dramas come thick and fast: from desert rescues to rising floods, venomous vipers to visiting VIPs. Throw in heat, dust and flies and it’s not a job for the faint-hearted, unless you’re Senior Constable Neale McShane, who has single-handedly taken care of a beat the size of Victoria for the past 10 years. Recently retired from this ‘hardship posting’, Neale and his family thrived on the adventures and colourful times that come with the territory in the furthest corner of our country.

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Broken Hill – Australia’s Outback Icon An essay about travel in the Australian Outback


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English | May 19, 2016 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B00KG1H8RQ | 60 pages | EPUB | 1.28 Mb
Broken Hill, a city steeped in Australian history and legend, is the ideal stopping off point for those that want to explore the Australia Outback. This is the story of a couples visit to Broken Hill and how they made a number of amazing discoveries about the city and its environment. They discovered the history of BHP, Australia’s largest mining company and learned about the role that Broken Hill played in the formation of the union movement in Australia. They visited the Flying Doctor Service and the School of the Air. They visited the galleries of a number of Australia’s most popular artists and learned why Outback art has become so popular. They met Jack Absalom, one of Australia’s most prolific landscape artists.

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