Tantanoola (8 results)

Paperback. [Author], [Publisher]. NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title. Author: Trevor Hay Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 342 In 2019 Roy, a retired librarian living alone in dwindling bushland on the outskirts of Melbourne, is lured out of his shell by his neighbours, two migrant Chinese families who run a motel and restaurant. With other neighbours and guests, they get together regularly for Friday Chinese banquets, retiring for after-dinner ghost stories to an old Presbyterian church among the gums behind the restaurant - 'The Temple of Ordinary Terrors'. He records the passage of the year in a journal that includes notes from his intercultural story-telling group. He finds that mortals, and even some part-human, part-goblin beings, like the Japanese tengu, inhabit a zone somewhere between the terrors of the supernatural world, depicted in literature and art, and the 'ordinary' terrors of the natural, 'real' world. In the process Roy finds a special friend and ultimately exorcises the ghost of his own loneliness, which he has been inclined to idealise as solitude. Paperback. …

207pp. Paperback. "'One of my Buddhism for dummies books says there are three fires to be avoided at all costs - desire, anger and delusion. I think my greatest desire - and delusion - is to see a meaning in the events that have taken place in my life. There have been three occasions I can think of when I felt the siren call of Meaning, when I was convinced that things had happened as they were meant to - and each time I got it wrong.' In solitude, in a hotel in China, a man writes to a close friend, trying to identify themes in his life and relationships, revealed in the memory of sometimes funny, sometimes traumatic incidents and episodes. Intermittently he also writes of his present days in China, of the shifting persona he has adopted in order to lead a 'floating life' between worlds and identities." (Publisher's description).…

Paperback. [Author], [Publisher]. NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title. Author: Trevor Hay Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Restless China scholar Rubert Robinson leaves the refuge of his studio in Montsalvat artists' colony in outer Melbourne and embarks upon travels with Xiaorong, his former student, in order to discover and illuminate fragments of the age-old encounter between China and the West. During their quest through old and new worlds they discover a parallel realm of fascination, misunderstanding, pain and delight - all within their own relationship. Like other cultural voyagers before them, they find both sanctuary and exile within a landscape of ever shifting perspectives. Paperback. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Tantanoola, The Author, 2013. Quarto, 115 pages with numerous colour illustrations and a few distribution maps. Colour-pictorial papered boards lightly rubbed; an excellent copy.

Octavo, paperback,96 pp.,colour photographs. Acacias, or wattles as they are commonly known are the most widely distributed plant growing on the Australian continent, with some 1,063 known species to date. This practical guide explores the possibilities of growing some of the temperate and arid Acacias as a food source and for conservation. It covers seed collection, propagation, Aboriginal language names, food and nutiritional value and much more.…

third edition),Octavo, paperback,84 pp.,photographs, map. An interesting cryptozoological tale of a 'tiger' shot in the Mount Gambier region of South Australia in 1895, which turned out to be an Arabian Wolf.

Quarto, laminated boards,112 pp.,colour photographs. Casuarinaceae is one of many tree families that occur in Australia. The author endeavours to cover many aspects of this interesting tree family, including its evolution, botanical history, conservation, decorative wood uses, distribution and much more. While the book does not cover all known species of the Casuarinaceae, it looks at those species better known, or those of interest.…

Quarto, laminated boards,115 pp.,colour photographs. It is highly unlikely that any other edible Australian native plant has created as much interest as the Native peach/Quandong, Santalum acuminatum. This plant is now embedded in Australian folklore and holds nostalgic memories for many people. This fully illustrated book follows its journey through prehistoric times, ancient Aboriginal history, botany, Australian land exploration, early settlers, arts and craft through farming the species and its uses as a popular cooking ingredient in modern Australia. …