Bøger af Ron Edwards

'Life's a real cow of a thing!'You can take five locals virtually locked out of their Outback pub by a bunch of city-slickers up from Sydney who, deep into the grog, start offering money for the best local yarn. You could take it that these five, gathered around Pop, are used to being virtually locked out of their pub even in the best of times, and have their own jealously-guarded places out on the back porch. So you might wonder why they have their backs up this day.The answer to all their resentment is not so much being kept out from their local by the up-'emselves city-ites, but is mainly because what tomorrow is going to bring is more than a man can bear... Tomorrow, the bulldozer is coming to tear down their beloved drinking-hole. And it's not the extra half-a-block walk to the next pub as you might think; it's the principle of the bloody cow of a thing... one of their own mates is going to be driving the bulldozer! If that's not total sacrilege, then it's still enough to drive a man to drink that he can't afford until next payday.And if that wasn't enough to get on a bloke's goat, the cold beer's running out on this last of all days to end days because of the great gutzing of the city slickers inside. How about that for coming the ruination of the environment? To come the raw prawn worse, what with all the city-slicker money being bandied about, Shirl the barmaid is turning her own tap off for the locals and turning it on for the Sydneysiders. Even the sacred bottle stash for tomorrow's breakfast isn't sacrosanct from their own selves' thieving hands. How desperate can a human being get? It's obvious as to what must be done: that tenner being put up inside by the city drongoes for the best yarn has to be collared.------------------'You'll hear shaggy dogs, yarns and bullsh as old as the hills and as warm as an outhouse's brick.' The Playbox Theatre

We would all like more riches, wouldn't we? But what are you willing to do in order to get more? - Marry for money, even though love is absent - Turn to crime and rob a bank - Go broke buying lottery tickets - Change your attitude and opinions If you agree with the last answer, then read this book. If you are unhappy with the conditions of your life, there is no possible way of changing them unless you first change the state from which you view the world. The place from where we observe the world determines the world that we see. You truly can have it all, but only if you believe it! This philosophy is endorsed by Jesus Christ Himself. _________________________________________________________ In a time of universal deceit - speaking the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell

Ron Edwards was born in Australia in 1930 and brought up in the country where the small farmers still plowed with horses and harvested their half acres with sickles and scythes, while the larger properties relied on the annual visit of the steam-driven threshing machines to process their crops. By the 1940s all this had vanished, but by then Edwards had realized that the country's traditional crafts were also disappearing. He began to note some of them in drawings and text and later published these materials in his native country. How to Make Whips is the American edition of his ninth book.The first section of How to Make Whips gives instructions for a basic 8-strand whip; the second deals with the making of fine kangaroo hide whips. Other chapters explain the making of bullwhips, snake whips, and whips made from precut lace. Also included are instructions on plaiting names in whips and using plaiting designs for whip handles.