John Gardiner
ALLi Author Member
Location: Australia
Genres: Memoir, Travel Writing
Having degrees in such contrarian fields as Civil Engineering and Arts may go some way to explaining my perverse character and my broad-reaching curiosity.
John Gardiner's books
Genres: Memoir
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
A young boy grows up in a post-war Australia so different to today. As the Japanese mount air attacks on Australian ports in the early 1940’s, John is born, a late addition to a family with children already in their teens. This is the story of his first twelve years, growing up in Newcastle and on a grazing property in the Hunter Valley; a noisy, active, scatterbrained boy learning through trial and error how to live a life. John is no angel, though we sense that he means well - most of the time. We see John grow and mature. On the property he learns to ride his horse Dusty, to muster sheep and do his bit at shearing time. In Newcastle he makes Shanghai’s, tries magic, writes a play, crowns a queen. As the author struggles to recall his early life, he examines the strangeness of memory. Nothing can...
Genres: Memoir
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
A young boy grows up in a post-war Australia so different to today. As the Japanese mount air attacks on Australian ports in the early 1940’s, John is born, a late addition to a family with children already in their teens. This is the story of his first twelve years, growing up in Newcastle and on a grazing property in the Hunter Valley; a noisy, active, scatterbrained boy learning through trial and error how to live a life. John is no angel, though we sense that he means well - most of the time. We see John grow and mature. On the property he learns to ride his horse Dusty, to muster sheep and do his bit at shearing time. In Newcastle he makes Shanghai’s, tries magic, writes a play, crowns a queen. As the author struggles to recall his early life, he examines the strangeness of memory. Nothing can...
Genres: Memoir
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
A young boy grows up in a post-war Australia so different to today. As the Japanese mount air attacks on Australian ports in the early 1940’s, John is born, a late addition to a family with children already in their teens. This is the story of his first twelve years, growing up in Newcastle and on a grazing property in the Hunter Valley; a noisy, active, scatterbrained boy learning through trial and error how to live a life. John is no angel, though we sense that he means well - most of the time. We see John grow and mature. On the property he learns to ride his horse Dusty, to muster sheep and do his bit at shearing time. In Newcastle he makes Shanghai’s, tries magic, writes a play, crowns a queen. As the author struggles to recall his early life, he examines the strangeness of memory. Nothing can...
Genres: Memoir
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
A young boy grows up in a post-war Australia so different to today. As the Japanese mount air attacks on Australian ports in the early 1940’s, John is born, a late addition to a family with children already in their teens. This is the story of his first twelve years, growing up in Newcastle and on a grazing property in the Hunter Valley; a noisy, active, scatterbrained boy learning through trial and error how to live a life. John is no angel, though we sense that he means well - most of the time. We see John grow and mature. On the property he learns to ride his horse Dusty, to muster sheep and do his bit at shearing time. In Newcastle he makes Shanghai’s, tries magic, writes a play, crowns a queen. As the author struggles to recall his early life, he examines the strangeness of memory. Nothing can...