Australia Adventure

Will Chaffey is 18 when he boards a plane in New York bound for Australia. Taking time off to work and travel, Will meets an enigmatic wanderer and herpetologist. Together they cross the inland desert to the tropical northwest coast, home to the saltwater crocodile, a known man-eater and a predator who has been hunting since the age of the dinosaurs. They devise a plan to explore the remote Prince Regent River, a trek so dangerous it had never been attempted by outsiders.

Brighten your day and dive into Flat Spell Tales! The author, Tony Martello, transforms ordinary events in our lives into fiction based on half-realities. Drop in and surf stories about romance, revenge, treasure hunts, and humor. He invites you along with him on a variety of adventures that take you into extreme nature, complex human relationships, and animal allegories.

Brutally kidnapped and separated in childhood, Tommo and Hawk are reunited at the age of 15 in Hobart Town. Together, they escape their troubled pasts and set off on a journey into manhood. From whale hunting in the Pacific to the Maori wars of New Zealand, from the Rocks in Sydney to the miners' riots at the goldfields, Tommo and Hawk must learn each other's strengths and weaknesses in order to survive.

Should he be hanged or transported? The Artful Dodger is the best pick-pocket in England, a one-person crime wave. Although only a child, he seems certain to face the noose. But, to everyone’s surprise but his own, he escapes this fate and is transported to Australia. There he falls prey to Fred Crimp, a disfigured and vicious criminal who Dodger thinks vaguely familiar. His quick wits save him, and life begins to look better as he discovers there are easier ways to get rich than by picking pockets. But back in London, the peril becomes more deadly and his life at risk. In order to elude ...

Based on the remarkable true story of Irish convict John Graham, WHITE SPIRIT is an epic historical adventure set in 19th Century Australia. After escaping from the notorious Moreton Bay Penal Settlement, Graham finds refuge with the Kabi, a tribe of Aborigines who eventually accept him as one of their own. Attempts to recapture Graham are orchestrated by a variety of contrasting characters working for the all-pervasive British Empire. They include Moreton Bay's tyrannical, opium-addicted commandant Lord Cheetham, the dashing yet warlike Lieutenant Hogan, native tracker Barega and the penal...

Want to know what Vietnam was really like? A 3-Volume BOX SET with 200 veteran interviews, 688 Photos, 1,236 pages, and 4.6 Stars on 2,270 Amazon Reviews for the individual books, at half price! Real stories told by real people in their own words, men and women, caught up in an all too real war. From the Delta to the DMZ, come walk in their boots. If you were there, you'll understand. If you weren't, grab a copy and you will, because they’re like Doritos. Try a few and you won't be able to stop. The Vietnam War dominated my generation and affected so many lives in so many different ways. ...

In the ancient South Pacific world of Oceania, Moana, a born navigator, sets sail in search of a fabled island. During her incredible journey, she teams up with her hero, the legendary demi-god Maui, to traverse the open ocean on an action-packed voyage. They encounter enormous sea creatures, breathtaking underworlds, and ancient folklore.

Albert never expected to see the end of the world, let alone survive it. Now he’s the last stubborn old man in a quiet Australian town, keeping himself—and his dog, Winnie—alive with equal parts routine, grumbling, and sheer spite. He scavenges in the mornings, locks the doors at night, and tells himself he’s perfectly fine with being the last one left. Then he finds Matilda. She’s seven years old, stuck up a tree with a horde of zombies milling below and an attitude far too big for her size. Against his better judgement (and Winnie’s very vocal sigh), Albert helps her down. ...

Heiress Katrina Redmond was heartily sick of living the life her father had mapped out for her. Six months ago she’d finally made a stand and had been engaged in a battle of wills with her father ever since. His latest attempt to draw her back into the family business involved blackmailing her into attending a corporate wilderness fishing camp. She didn’t do wilderness, she didn’t fish and she didn’t want to be there so it was always was going to be a disaster. But she hadn’t expected to get her heart broken as well. Dillon Armstrong never mixed business with pleasure but where ...

Volume two of the Red Cotton Fields trilogy. The Red Cotton Fields series continues with Fields Of Gold And Sorrow as three of the wealthiest families in the world attempt to endure the trials and tribulations of WW1. It is a story of love, tragedy, and the will to survive during the terrible war years of The Great War. Book Three of the series (Angry Sky) due out late summer 2020. The epic story continues. Hope you enjoy.

Albert never planned to stay long. A makeshift community of schoolteachers and half-feral kids wasn’t exactly his idea of peace and quiet—even if it came with running water, rationed rice pudding, and the faint smell of chalk dust. But when trouble brews and tensions mount, Albert finds himself doing something unexpected: sticking around. And when staying becomes dangerous, he does something even stranger. He leads them away. Because he knows a place. Off the map. Out of the way. Where tomato plants grow in neat rows, the old folk still believe in crochet, and nobody makes you join a ...

Set in the nineteenth century, The World Duology (World Odyssey / Fiji: A Novel) follows the fortunes of three young travelers. Their dramatic adventures span sixteen years and see them engage with Native American Indians, Barbary Coast pirates, Aborigines, Maoris and Pacific Islanders as they travel around the world - from America to Africa, from England to the Canary Islands, to Australia, New Zealand, Samoa and Fiji. In book one, World Odyssey, ambitious American adventurer Nathan Johnson, sheltered English missionary Susannah Drake and irrepressible Cockney Jack Halliday each follow ...

Set in the nineteenth century, World Odyssey (The World Duology, #1) follows the fortunes of three young travelers as each embarks on an epic journey. Their dramatic adventures span sixteen years and see them engage with Native American Indians, Barbary Coast pirates, Aborigines, Maoris and Pacific Islanders as they travel around the world - from America to Africa, from England to the Canary Islands, to Australia, New Zealand and Samoa. Ambitious American adventurer Nathan Johnson's journey begins when he runs away to sea to escape a violent father. After surviving a shipwreck and ...

The story begins shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the entrance of the United States into WWII. Three of the wealthiest families in the world are featured in this sprawling epic taking place during the first year of the war. The story opens on a magnificent farm in South Georgia and the home of the largest privately held company in the world. This is a story of great love and terrible tragedy. A story of three families trying to live through and endure a world at war. Many would die!

A honeymoon in Australia’s Kosciuszko National Park becomes a nightmare. Marcus, a man with a shady past, planned the trip as a cover to plunder ancient artifacts tied to local Indigenous folklore. Lacey believes they came for solitude, but when Marcus steps away from the fire, she vanishes. No tracks. No struggle. Only signs that something vast and ancient has passed through the camp. Desperate, Marcus turns to Ben Makarios, the man who survived the Yowie once before. For Ben, this hunt is personal, the creature stole his first wife and nearly his sanity. Ben and his team Lux, Dustin, ...

Book 3 of the best-selling Charlie Smithers Collection "Charlie Smithers, or should I say C W Lovatt, has done it again, bringing us the best adventure yet in the series about this remarkable and lovable character." ~ The Review Flashman never experienced anything like this, not even remotely! Whether it’s because of his gift of the ‘sight,’ inherited from his dour old Hebridean mum, or simply a sorely battered noggin (a result of his master’s appalling aim) the Australias hold one of Charlie Smithers’ most intriguing adventures to date. Pirates, great white sharks, mermaids, ...

The desert doesn't forgive. It forgets slowly, in layers of bone and rust. Jax Renn is a dying man crossing a dying land. A wounded ex-ranger, half-blind from the heat, limping across a saltpan that has already claimed a hundred better men — he has no water, no backup, and no good reason to keep moving. Except he does. That's the thing about rangers. The training doesn't leave, even when everything else does. When he collapses near the ruins of a communications tower, he wakes to find someone has patched his wounds and moved his gear. Someone who doesn't want to be found. Mae is sixteen, ...

If you could have anything you wanted in life, WHAT or WHO would you ask for? When Daphne, a fierce 22-year-old fashionista, stumbles upon the phenomenon known as Tuned In—a self-help sensation rocking the charts—she figures it's the perfect remedy to ramp up her lacklustre situation-ship. But after her dream man leaves her heartbroken. Ready to give up on everything that she learned at Tuned In, the very seminar that he told her she should attend. Daphne quickly realises she gained something else, that she never could have imagined. It all began with a margarita and now Daphne has the ...

It's Christmas time in the outback and the Sunhaven teens are determined to have a quiet time after their past adventures - no plans, no excitement, no life-threatening thrills, just the usual Christmas-time activities. The peace is broken by the brewing storms, and as hot days end with lightning in the distance they know the floods are on their way. There are personal storms, too, as Dane struggles with depression while his family and friends try to help, and Amy is desperate to discover if her father is still alive. When the record rains arrive, their part of the outback becomes an inland...

Gina Chick, the inaugural winner of Alone Australia, tells the story of her extraordinary, indomitable life in one of the most powerful, moving memoirs you will ever read. WINNER OF THE MATT RICHELL AWARD FOR BEST NEW WRITER OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 INDIE BOOK AWARDS, BIOGRAPHY OF...