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Penelope Goes West
Allen & Unwin 1999; US$ 25.40Tim Bowden loves to go camping, and he has a great interest in Australian history. So both interests came into play when he and his wife Ros travelled in their newly acquired 4WD to Western Australia retracing the steps of the young explorer Edward John Eyre. This is the engrossing story of that trip told with Tim's wry humour and passion. more...
The Silence Calling
Allen & Unwin 1999; US$ 64.88The Silence Calling is a fascinating and often moving account of the work and life of Australians in Antarctica. It traces the development of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition (ANARE) from the first day the Australian flag was raised on Australia's remote Southern Ocean outpost of Heard Island on Boxing Bay 1947 up to the... more...
Spooling Through
Allen & Unwin 2003; US$ 27.22From his schooldays in Tasmania in the 1950s, Tim Bowden wanted to become a journalist. Happily this ambition coincided with the invention of magnetic tape and the portable recorder, which triggered a life-long passion with broadcasting. Cutting his journalist teeth as a cadet reporter on the Hobart Mercury in the days of copy paper and hot metal type,... more...
This can't happen to me!
Allen & Unwin 2004; US$ 27.26Weaving practical advice with humorous and inspiring personal stories, Tim Bowden explains everything you need to know about Type 2 diabetes. more...
The Devil in Tim
Allen & Unwin 2008; US$ 22.68Tim Bowden, one of Australia's best loved travel writers and story tellers, rediscovers his native state - Tasmania - revealing with wry humour and enthusiasm its history and its people. more...
Down Under in the Top End
Allen & Unwin 2008; US$ 27.22The intrepid Tim and Ros, with 'Penelope' and 'The Manor' in tow, follow the grey nomad route on the great pilgrimage north. In this latest instalment of his irreverent travel memoirs, Tim and partner Ros 'do' Queensland and the Territory. more...
One Crowded Hour - Neil Davis, Combat Cameraman 1934-85
HarperCollins Publishers 2010; US$ 18.11The bestselling biography of one of the world's greatest cinecameramen and an extraordinary Australian. For over twenty years journalist Neil Davis covered the conflicts in SouthEast Asia. Always at the battle front, he brought enduring images of the full horror of modern war to the world. Ironically, in September 1985, having survived so much war,... more...
No Tern Unstoned: Musings at Breakfast
HarperCollins Publishers 2011; US$ 18.11Tim Bowden is a larrikin. I want to alert you to the threat posed to this endangered species. There used to be a serious tradition of it at the ABC. Nowadays larrikinism gets pretty short shrift. Yet like Canute, Bowden stands against the tide. I think the secret lies in laughter. Tim Bowden makes me laugh. Out loud. You can't ask for better therapy... more...
The Way My Father Tells It: The Story of an Australian Life
HarperCollins Publishers 2011; US$ 25.37THE WAY MY FATHER TELLS IT is a story of the joys and sorrows of childhood and adolescence, of falling in love, going to war and returning to re-establish a family life. It is filled with wry charm and self-effacing humour and is a wonderful evocation of an Australia now changed beyond recognition. "It isn't easy to reminisce, alone, into a tape recorder.... more...
The Changi Camera
Hachette Australia 2012; US$ 31.79THE CHANGI CAMERA is a unique portrait of Changi and the hell of the Thai-Burma Railway. more...









