Gordon Smith: 6 books

“William Charker, for your part in the burglary of the dwelling of Thomas Evans at St. Mary Lambeth and stealing goods to the value of £33.60 you are at this moment sentenced, along with your accomplice, to 7 years transportation in the colony of New South Wales.” And so, starts the saga of an...

THE stories in this volume are transcribed from voluminous illustrated diaries which have been kept by me for some twenty years spent in travel and in sport in many lands—the last nine of them almost entirely in Japan, while collecting subjects of natural history for the British Museum; trawling...

In 1914 Australia joined England and declared war on Germany and it's allies. In the small New South Wales town of Cootamundra 6 young Australians, all from the same family, individually joined the fight. This saga follows their journeys through Gallipoli and the Western Front. The saga also covers...

Saved from nazis she grew to be a world leader In 1935, Ruth was born to an unmarried Jewish mother in Germany. Fearing the Nazi persecution ruth was sent to England on the "kinder transport“ and raised by a church of England priest. She grew to become a giant in the in largest construction...

In 1930’s fictional Australian rural town of Willow Vale. Baddar, a wild-hearted 7 year old would tell you he is special. As the blood grandchild of the last Afghan cameleer and his wife, Rose, an aboriginal woman, Baddar knew he was destined for more than his little town. Bored of small-town life...

After the bombing of Darwin, Townsville and the submarine attack in Sydney, the Australian government became concerned with the possibility of the civilian population abandoning the coastal cities of Brisbane, Rockhampton, and Townsville and the coastal cities of New South Wales. It was obvious,...