Expedition Amazon Journey by Ridgway review
A travel expedition across South America from Lima to Belem shows careful planning and teamwork. John Ridgway narrates the 1966 to 1970 trek with Chuy Blyth and a mixed team, detailing leadership, risks, and the financing and preparation behind the voyage in stunning jungle and Andean terrain.
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John Ridgway
Amazon
Chuy Blyth
Atlantic
Lisk
Ridgway
Kulgens
Anna
John Cowie
Mac
Amazon Valley
Submarine role in future Royal Australian Navy strategy
Periscope View reviews naval strategy and submarine importance for Australia as it weighs future needs, criticizing reliance on large DDL destroyers and highlighting Malta’s WWII submarine experiences. The critique links submarine effectiveness to coastal protection and convoy defense amid evolving naval power.
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Royal Australian Navy
Simpson
Malta
Africa
Books in Demand with Prices Across Budgets
Hammond Innes Golden Soak The story of Australia at the height of the mineral boom. $5.50 Pinnegar How to make home wines and beers $3.95 Street Mixer and Blender Cookbook $1.95 Lowell Fish Cookbook $1.75.
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Hammond Innes
Australia
Pinnegar
Beautiful Losers review by Leonard Calen
The Australian review condemns Leonard Cohen's novel Beautiful Losers as dull and pretentious, criticizing its four characters and disjointed structure. The piece argues the book muddles themes around Catherine Tekakwitha, Edith, and the narrator I, with weak humor and explicit content failing to engage or illuminate.
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Australia
Canberra
Sheppard
Leonard Cohen
Edith
Catherine Tekakwitha
Tekakwitha
Virgin
Strange Mutiny The Somers Mutiny
Henry Carlisle reviews a novel mixing real people with fiction about the 1842 Somers mutiny. The book uses Leacock papers to recount the inquiry, court martial, and the captain Mackenzie, weighing whether a real conspiracy existed. An engaging tale with detailed seafaring portrayals.
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Leacock
Robert Leacock
Geoffrey M. Pike wins 1973 Writers' Fellowship
Geoffrey M. Pike, 43, an advertising executive with McCann Erickson, receives the Angus and Robertson 1973 Writers' Fellowship of 5000 dollars for a project to complete an autobiographical novel set in Britain and Australia.
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Angus & Robertson
Geoffrey M. Pike
Britain
Australia
McCann- Erickson
Banning Blyton Is Just An Adult Plot
A column by a parent and child recounts a research quest into Enid Blyton’s work. They find Blyton scarcely present in local libraries while national sources note her popularity and a long bibliography. the piece samples library frustrations and a playful critique of adult censorship.
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Australia
Banning Blyton
Sue
Blyton
Enid Blyton
Dickson
Public Library
Blivion
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Collier's
Ellison
Brian Doyle
National Library
Simon
National
Blytons
Miss Blyton
Nicholas ‘Ucker
Times Literary Supplement
Union
New York Times
Enid Blyton Through a Child’s Gaze and Contests
A child narrates reactions to Blyton’s fame noting World War II best seller status, a 1957 survey naming her popular with girls, and a 1972 study showing she was a favorite among 10 to 14-year-olds. The piece cites sales, translations, and debates over banning Blyton in Australia with critical views on illiberalism.
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Moss Blyton
England
Sue
University of Sheffield
the Times
Miss Blyton
Britain
Publisher's Weekly
Shadow and Smoke in Asia and Australia Novels
A critical survey of Dennis Bloodworth’s Any Number Can Play set in Mekong counter espionage, noting characters and realism. Christopher Bray’s Shadow of a Running Man about Aboriginal Australia with vengeance and unlikely romance. Victor Canning’s The Rainbird Pattern a secretive kidnapping thriller. Dick Francis’s Smoke Screen centers on film star Edward Lincoln in a murder mystery. Martin Russell’s Concrete Evidence follows journalist Jim Larkin chasing crooked contractors and a drug ring with mixed pacing and character depth.
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Belfast
Vietnam
James Bond
South-East Asia
Graham Greene
Charles Collingwood
CBS
Dennis Bloodworth
Observer
Kingdom of
Mekong
Larry Ivansong
Bloodworth
Asia
Australia
Christopher Bray
Kilya
Sweet Pansy
Heinemann
Victor Canning
Edward Lincoln
South Africa
Lincoln
Francis
Martin Russell
Jim Larkin
Shire
Jim
Bunty
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Somers
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New York
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William Shakespear
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Victor Cannings
Canning
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Collins
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Dick Francis
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Hele
World Book Encyclopedia
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