Jim Turner: 6 books

This book uses Watercolour paintings to illustrate all 157 types of steam locomotives used on State Government Railways around Australia during the years 1855 to 1895 including details of all goods, passenger and shunting locomotives in service. The name of their builder and where they were built, their...

This book captures a day in the lives of 45 Pilots serving in Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) between 1939 and 1970 including incidents World War II, Korea and Vietnam. Some days are routine but others are not, and the combination of individual pilot skill and good or bad luck on a particular day makes...

Global warming is said to be one of the factors impacting on the long term survival of frog species around the world and this book is an overview of 211 species and 2 sub-species of Australian Frogs with each of these 213 species illustrated by a Watercolour painting. Each painting is accompanied by...

This book contains a brief overview of 105 species of Australian Wildlife with each one illustrated by a Watercolour painting. The selection includes frogs, snakes, lizards, birds and mammals with a description each species the habitat they are found in and a distribution map and the name of the person...

Bill Garing joined the RAAF (Royal Australian Air Force) as a Cadet at the Royal Military College Duntroon in 1929. He made his first flight as a pilot at Point Cook two years later in 1931 in a DH60X Moth. Over the next 15 years as pilot in command he flew almost every type of trainer, fighter, bomber...

This book captures a day in the lives of 35 Aircrew and Ground Staff serving in Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) from 1939 through until 1967 including incidents World War II, Korea, Malaya and Vietnam. Some days are routine but others are not, and the combination of individual skill of the Aircrew...