The Long Farewell by Don Charlwood ( 3^rd edition, 2000)

The author read more than 120 diaries kept by immigrants on the long sailing ship voyages to Australia, and numerous letters the settlers wrote home. He tells about the perils, the ships and their routes, accommodation on board, surgeons and health, messing and dining, pastimes and consolations, the crew and the new shore. 

Winner of the NSW Premier's Literary Awards' Ethnic Affairs Commission Award in 1982.

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Marching as to War by Don Charlwood (Published by Hudson Publishing, Hawthorn, Australia 1990)

An eloquent and evocative autobiographical account of growing up in Australia between the two World Wars, this book describes life in Australia at that time and portrays the attitudes that led young Australians to support England in World War 2.

Winner of the Fellowship of Australian Writers (Vic) Christina Stead Award in 1990.

Now out of print, but reprint due 2008. Register your interest here.

All the Green Year by Don Charlwood (Published by HarperCollins, Sydney, Australia 2001)

An ever-popular novel of boyhood life and adolescence set in a costal town in Australia during the 1920s. Still just as relevant to young adults today, it is full of humour with entertaining characters brought to life. The essence of what it is like to be a boy on the edge of manhood is uniquely captured. All the Green Year has been constantly in print since it was first published in 1965.

Paperback; 183 pages. AUD$19.95 plus freight

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An Afternoon of Time by Don Charlwood (2^nd edition, 1996)

Ten beautifully told and entertaining tales of rural life in Western Victoria, Australia during the 1930s. The stories are full of finely drawn characters, with gentle, and often amusing, detail. Two of the stories centre on the Otway Forest and the Great Ocean Road of that time.

Paperback, 174 pages, 10 stories, author's note. AUD$9.50 plus freight

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The Wreck of the Sailing Ship Netherby -- A Miracle of Survival by Don Charlwood

The Wreck of the Sailing Ship Netherby is the story of an 1866 shipwreck on the western coast of King Island, in southern Australia. It tells of a near miracle, vividly related by three different participants. Here was a ship with 413 emigrant passengers and a crew of 38, impaled by night on serrated reefs not far from the 1845 remains of the Cataraqui. The Cataraqui had lost 399 lives. The senior officers of the Netherby were instrumental in saving the lives of all those aboard their vessel, plus a baby born on the island to one of the rescued passengers!

Paperback 48 pages; Foreword; appendices including passenger list. Photographs and maps (B & W, and colour). AUD$15.50 plus freight

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The Cataraqui -- Australia's Worst Shipwreck by Andrew Lemon and Marjorie Morgan (published by Australian Scholarly Publishing, Collingwood, Australia, 2^nd edition, 1995)

Australia's worst civil disaster -- a sailing ship stranded only 150 yards off the deserted shore of King Island, isolated by rows of reefs; victims clinging, for up to two days, to the disintegrating vessel. The story of the horrific 1845 shipwreck -- 400 died; nine were miraculously rescued.

Now out of print, expected reprint late 2008. Register your interest here.

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