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6 83 y separately published work icon The Great World David Malouf , ( trans. Götz Burghardt with title Die Grosse Welt ) Zurich : Benziger , 1991 Z436200 1990 single work novel historical fiction (taught in 3 units)

'Every city, town and village has its memorial to war. Nowhere are these more eloquent than in Australia, generations of whose young men have enlisted to fight other people's battles - from Gallipoli and the Somme to Malaya and Vietnam. In THE GREAT WORLD, his finest novel yet, David Malouf gives a voice to that experience. But THE GREAT WORLD is more than a novel of war. Ranging over seventy years of Australian life, from Sydney's teeming King's Cross to the tranquil backwaters of the Hawkesbury River, it is a remarkable novel of self-knowledge and lost innocence, of survival and witness.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (Vintage reprint).
4 61 y separately published work icon Harland's Half Acre David Malouf , Zurich : Benziger , 1989 Z81132 1984 single work novel (taught in 3 units)

'Born on a poor dairy farm in Queensland, Frank Harland's life is centred on his great artistic gift, his passionate love for his father and four brothers and his need to repossess, through a patch of land, his family's past. The story spans Frank's life; from before the First World War, through years as a swaggie in the Great Depression and Brisbane in the forties, to his retirement to a patch of Australian scrub where he at last takes possession of his dream. Solitude and society, possession and dispossession, the obsessive and often violent claims of family life and love, illuminate the imagination of the artist and the larger world of events. This is an ambitious novel, presented simply and poetically; the narrative is absorbing, full of incident, and peopled with characters of formidable humour and power.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (Vintage reprint).
4 1 y separately published work icon Timothy and Gramps Ron Brooks , Ron Brooks (illustrator), Zurich Cologne : Benziger , 1979 Z847900 1978 single work picture book children's After his grandfather's visit to his classroom, Timothy enjoys school more.
2 12 y separately published work icon The Bunyip of Berkeley's Creek Jenny Wagner , Ron Brooks (illustrator), ( trans. Renate Nagel with title Die Reise des Einsamen Umirs : ein Bilderbuch ) Switzerland : Benziger , 1978 Z813305 1973 single work picture book children's

When the bunyip heaves himself out of Berkeley’s Creek, he has no idea what a bunyip really is! So he sets off to find out for himself.
5 3 y separately published work icon Over the Top Ivan Southall , ( trans. Marlis Portner with title Die Nacht als keiner schlief ) Zurich : Benziger , 1974 Z792196 1972 single work children's fiction children's With his mother about to give birth and his father unconscious from a fall, it's up to eleven-year-old Perry to take charge.
2 y separately published work icon A Walk to the Hills of the Dreamtime James Vance Marshall , ( trans. Elisabeth Klein with title Unterwegs zu den Traumbergen ) Zurich : Benziger , 1973 Z1544892 1970 single work children's fiction children's 'Sarah, fourteen, and Joey, eleven, are brother and sister, the children of an Aborigine mother and a Japanese pearl diver. For most of their lives, they have lived at the Melville Island Mission, where they have been Christianised and educated. As the story opens they are being transported by truck far into the interior, where they are to live and work on a station. Beyond Alice Springs the truck is struck by a tornado and completely demolished, the driver killed. Joey knows that they are now in the country of his people, and at his insistence they start out to walk to the hills of the Dreamtime...' (Dust jacket)
9 11 y separately published work icon The Silver Brumby Elyne Mitchell , ( trans. Eva Grünert with title Der Silberhengst ) Zurich : Benziger , 1972 Z175381 1958 single work novel young adult (taught in 1 units) Thowra, the magnificent silver stallion, is king of the brumbies. He must defend his herd from the mighty horse, the Brolga, in the most savage of struggles. He must also save his herd from capture by man.
6 y separately published work icon Silver Brumby's Daughter Elyne Mitchell , ( trans. Eva Grünert with title Kunama, das Silberfohlen ) Zurich : Benziger , 1972 Z861901 1960 single work novel young adult Thowra's speed and courage have always saved him from the men who want to capture him - until now, when the men come on skis quickly and silently over the mountains. This time Thowra must protect his daughter from the hunters who prize the silver brumbies above any other horse.
3 1 y separately published work icon Riverboat Family Elizabeth Wilton , ( trans. Hans-Georg Noack )expression Zurich Cologne : Benziger , 1971 Z849291 1967 single work children's fiction children's historical fiction A Mannum family resurrects a river boat from the bottom of the River Murray and uses her as a trader in the time when Queen Victoria was on the throne.
12 4 y separately published work icon Hills End Ivan Southall , ( trans. Edith Gradmann with title Sieben werden vermisst ) Zurich : Benziger , 1969 Z42989 1962 single work children's fiction children's adventure

'On a fateful day in Hills End, a timber-milling town in the mountains of Victoria, seven children and their teacher set off to explore caves in the nearby mountains said to contain ancient Aboriginal rock art. While they are deep inside the mountain caves a storm of tremendous violence all but sweeps the town away and threatens to leave them stranded on the mountain.

'Tackling flooded creeks and washed out paths and fallen trees, the children make their way back to Hills End injured and exhausted, only to face a new battle to survive in the denuded town. ' (Publication summary)
2 y separately published work icon Undersea Hunting for Inexperienced Englishmen James Aldridge , ( trans. Leonore Schlaich with title Unterwasserjagd ) Zurich Cologne Einsiedeln : Benziger , 1962 Z803553 1955 single work prose
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