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My Australian Story #11
Fords and Flying Machines: The Diary of Jack McLaren, Longreach, 1919-1921
The diary of Jack McLaren
Longreach, 1919 - 1921.
Longreach, 1919 - 1921.
263 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2003
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Patricia Bernard
64 books13 followersPseudonyms P. Scot-Bernard, Trisha Bernard, Judy Bernard-Waite.
Patricia & her husband Kenneth have four children: Marcelle, Shona, S'Haila, Tyru. She was one of the first Australians allowed into China during the 1970s. Able to speak five languages, she has visited seventy countries and actually lived in twenty of them.
"I hitchhiked with my one-year-old daughter around Japan and Korea just after the Korean War and became stranded on the Niagara Falls Bridge without a passport".
An artist, she worked as a painter of landscapes and portraits for fifteen years and turned to writing in the 1980s. "I started writing when a friend asked me to write down the stories I was telling at a kindergarten. Since then, every children's/teenage book I have written has been published."
In addition to publishing children's books that include "Jacaranda Shadow", "The Mask", and the "Outcast" science-fiction trilogy, Patricia has written three novels for adults under a pen name and also written for film and television.
"I hope to achieve racial and national harmony between children and parents in the linguistically diverse Australian schools and to teach ‘even the smallest thing’ to the reader, while they have a good time reading my books".
"I work from 9:00 to 9:00, six days a week when writing and longer when editing because I hate editing. My motto is ‘if it is not fun, don't do it,’ so when the sun shines I spend three hour lunches at the beach, editing and swimming and I can be taken away from my computer by any simple excuse given by any friend who drops in and suggests a coffee, a champagne, or a swim."
"I lecture in schools and to writers, librarians, and women's literary groups; mostly about myself, my books, and the benefits of turning off the television and reading. I have published 78 books!"
"The purpose behind writing the ‘Outcast’ trilogy was to invent an entire world with the same tensions as our own, and through a hero and a group of heroes, fix it up".
"The advice I would give to aspiring writers in Australia is: don't give up your day job. Our population is too small".
~ Patricia's website is run by her Granddaughter, Celeste out of her love for literature and for her Grandmother. ~
Patricia & her husband Kenneth have four children: Marcelle, Shona, S'Haila, Tyru. She was one of the first Australians allowed into China during the 1970s. Able to speak five languages, she has visited seventy countries and actually lived in twenty of them.
"I hitchhiked with my one-year-old daughter around Japan and Korea just after the Korean War and became stranded on the Niagara Falls Bridge without a passport".
An artist, she worked as a painter of landscapes and portraits for fifteen years and turned to writing in the 1980s. "I started writing when a friend asked me to write down the stories I was telling at a kindergarten. Since then, every children's/teenage book I have written has been published."
In addition to publishing children's books that include "Jacaranda Shadow", "The Mask", and the "Outcast" science-fiction trilogy, Patricia has written three novels for adults under a pen name and also written for film and television.
"I hope to achieve racial and national harmony between children and parents in the linguistically diverse Australian schools and to teach ‘even the smallest thing’ to the reader, while they have a good time reading my books".
"I work from 9:00 to 9:00, six days a week when writing and longer when editing because I hate editing. My motto is ‘if it is not fun, don't do it,’ so when the sun shines I spend three hour lunches at the beach, editing and swimming and I can be taken away from my computer by any simple excuse given by any friend who drops in and suggests a coffee, a champagne, or a swim."
"I lecture in schools and to writers, librarians, and women's literary groups; mostly about myself, my books, and the benefits of turning off the television and reading. I have published 78 books!"
"The purpose behind writing the ‘Outcast’ trilogy was to invent an entire world with the same tensions as our own, and through a hero and a group of heroes, fix it up".
"The advice I would give to aspiring writers in Australia is: don't give up your day job. Our population is too small".
~ Patricia's website is run by her Granddaughter, Celeste out of her love for literature and for her Grandmother. ~
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November 12, 2012This entire series is a wonderful way to learn history or teach it to adolescents. I find today's generations seem to recall more when they learn through other people (pop songs, celebrity gossip, etc.), so what better way to teach history than through someone else's perspective? Yes, "authentic" diaries would be "better", but would the language really hold the modern student's attention? Did the diary writer know what WOULD be important in the context of history? Probably not.
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