Amazon Kindle – Now Available In Australia – BookOffers Buyers Guide
Amazon.com today announced that the Kindle will become available in Australia from October 19 2009. Australian book lovers will no doubt have the new international Kindle on the top of their Christmas lists this year. BookOffers.com.au predicts that the arrival of the Kindle in Australia will be a game changer for the Australian book industry. [...]
Learn MoreHighest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters is the remarkable true story of Hero of the Hudson Chesley B Sullenberger III who saved all 155 aboard Cactus 1549.
On January 15, 2009, the world witnessed one of the most remarkable emergency landings in aviation history when Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger skillfully glided US Airways Flight [...]
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- Tags: 9780061960772, Aviation, Biography
The Men Who Killed Qantas is the new book exposing the national carrier by Sun Herald journo Matthew Benns.
This book is the account of the Qantas story that every airline passenger needs to read: the full and frank history of Australia’s national airline. It takes you into the boardroom, where golden parachutes are signed off, [...]
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- Tags: 9781741668919, Aviation, Matthew Benns, Qantas
As seen in this weekends Good weekend – Peter FitzSimons is due to release his new book Charles Kingsford Smith and Those Magnificent Men on May 27.
Known to millions of Australians simply as ‘Smithy’ Sir Charles Kingsford Smith was one of Australia’s true twentieth-century legends. In an era in which aviators were superstars Smithy was [...]
My God It’s A Woman the autobiography of Nancy Bird, is a tribute to one of Australia’s greatest pilots. Her death last week ended one of the most inspirational aviation careers in Australia’s history.
In 1933, when women were still expected to man the nation’s kitchens, nineteen-year-old Nancy Bird obtained her commercial pilot’s licence. It was [...]
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