Bendigo On My Mind is an edited collection of stories, author Geoff Hocking has contributed to the eponymous Bendigo Magazine since it first began publication in 2010. Entitled Bendigo Memories, these stories are comfortable yarns about Bendigo--as it once was and how it sometimes is today. It is filled with warm memories of the colourful characters, the weird and the wonderful, while remembering all that Bendigo has lost and all that it holds dear to its heart.Bendigo On My Mind is a charming, amusing and at times thoughtful collection of memories. Illustrated by the author, it takes you back to a time when the city seemed much smaller and everyone knew everyone else-- or that's how it seemed anyway.
Gold Fever tells the story of the heady days following the discovery of gold in Australia. When, in 1851, the focus of the world suddenly turned to the hills, gullies and swirling creeks of New South Wales and Victoria as 'new chums' from all over the world rushed to be rich. This beautifully detailed work includes a narrative that captures the colourful characters and wittily observed sketches of everyday goldfields life. Never out of print since first published in 2001, now updated and in a new format. Geoff Hocking is an author, designer, artist and lecturer. He is the author of many books on Australian history, including Wild Colonial Boys and Under the Southern Cross. He lives in the Victoria's Castlemaine, part of Victoria's golden triangle.
IT'S ANOTHER WORLD RECORD features reproductions of more than 500 album cover designs from the studio of the World Record Club guided by founding art director Geoff Digby.
SIGNS OF THE TIMES recalls the magnificence of historical Australian advertising signs, posters and marketing ephemera, with more than 300 photographs of classic Images from across Australia. Comprising photographs sourced from historical archives as well as from author Geoff Hocking's own extensive collection, this unique array of advertisements ranges from faded painted walls, beer labels with long-forgotten designs and enamelled metal signs, to a kaleidoscope of tins and collectables. Author and artist Geoff Hocking has been a collector of ephemera, old signs and photographs for more than thirty years. His own collection began when he souvenired his first metal sign,a Mobil' flying red horse, at the age of sixteen.
Each page represents 10,000 human beings - 10,000 bombs. The number represented in this books is 1 million human beings - 1 million bombs. It is estimated that 140 million people died as a result of war in the 20th Century. To visualise this number imagine copying each page x 14 thousand times - or 140 books. Work of art? Political tract? Cry from the heart? A unique and confronting book which also features famous images, paintings and poems from the wars that dominated the last century. A2 two-colour poster insert.
This book "includes more than 300 illustrations, from collections around the world. From beautifully detailed paintings to wittily observed sketches of everyday goldfields life, this rish collection of engravings, photographs, painting and ephemera combine with written narrative to tell the story of the heady days that followed the discovery of gold in Australia." -- back cover.
Tells the story of the gold rush to Australia. It examines the impact that thousands of new immigrants had on the life of the colonies, the troubles that began when governments imposed heavy taxes on the diggers, and the fun of life on the diggings.
Scientists, soldiers, sports stars, inventors, entertainers, explorers and humble men, women and children who became overnight heroes, they're all integral to Australia's historical narrative Paul Taylor tells their fascinating stories in an absorbing, easy-to-read narrative summed up as 'beautifully told stories,' by Bert Newton. Includes illustrations by some of Australia's finest and funniest cartoonists Awesome Aussies is aimed squarely at young Australians, boys and girls from 11 to 15.
The Australian character has been wrought by sedition. Britain sent to Australia's shores boatloads of transportees, in chains: the rebels, the democrats, chartists, thinkers and political activists who were soon at large, free to pursue their destiny under the azure skies of the southern cross. Celebrates all those who fought for Australian democracy against the denial of a jealous Britain. From the Tolpuddle Martyrs to the Eureka uprising; from the colonial poets to the songwriters Johnny O'Keefe, Slim Dusty, Cold Chisel, Yothu Yindi and 'The Oils'. All have questioned authority and more often than not found it wanting. 'Australians all let us unite, for we are young and free' - lest we forget who fought for that freedom.
This superbly illustrated, expanded, second edition of CASTLEMAINE: FROM CAMP TO CITY has over 200 original photographs, historical illustrations, paintings, engravings, woodblock prints and items of ephemera. Together they tell the story of the rush to Castlemaine, and of the early Colony of Victoria's formative years in the days when 'gold was king'. CASTLEMAINE: FROM CAMP TO CITY is presented in a narrative style that makes this kind of history a joy to read.
Thank you for visiting our website. Would you like to provide feedback on how we could improve your experience?
This site does not use any third party cookies with one exception — it uses cookies from Google to deliver its services and to analyze traffic.Learn More.