Bøger af Graham Rogers

Nuet Livingstone took great delight in entertaining travelers in the bar of the Ironclad Hotel in the tiny gold mining town of Marble Bar. Marble Bar was renowned as the hottest place in Australia and in the bar of the local was the coolest place one could quench their thirst. Nuet's favorite trick was to eat a green frog. Then for an encore eat three or four cockroaches.Entertainment was self-made in the past before television reached the outback. Roads were mainly dirt tracks and when travelers reached a small settlement they would gather at the local hotel. Have a few drinks and yarn with the locals. Storytelling, news and gossip were all by word of mouth. An art now nearly forgotten. Larrikins like Neut were a dime a dozen and in most paces there would always be one who loved playing tricks on the unwary. It was a talking point to pass on at a meeting or gathering whether it be with friends or strangers. A good yarn broke the ice and then one could indulge in the art of communication. This art now near non-existent.Outback roads are now long stretches of bitumen and cars zoom along at a great rate. A time gone past these roads were dirt and you never drove past if anyone was stopped on the road. You always pulled over to inquire if they were OK. Many a traveller had perished in the past. It was sort of an unwritten law to check on fellow travellers. Not so now.The old-timers who once travelled these roads are now gone as well as their stories with it. In this book, I've gathered up some of those stories as well as my own experiences to let the next generation know of the life that we once lived. We all took it in our stride and made do. I don't think any of us made great fortunes but we were all richer for our experiences, in heart and mind.

These 25 songs cover an amazing hundred years of American history and reflect the struggles, loves, laughs, tragedies, trials and, on occasion, prejudices of a huge number of Americans. Over the years, these tunes have been the inspiration behind much of the contemporary popular music in advertising, film, folk song, blues, jazz and rock. The guitar was a popular instrument in the nineteenth century and was played across America with many forms of popular music. Its comparative rugged simplicity meant it could be carried on a mule, a horse or a wagon, accompanying prospectors, cowboys, gamblers, soldiers and many others. Until the arrival of the mechanical player-pianos and piano rolls in the 1890s, and for long after that in most situations, all music had been live. Whenever a group of people gathered of an evening to put their feet up, along a cattle trail, in a mining camp or frontier saloon - there was a guitar. When I was learning the guitar there was a great shortage of easy guitar arrangements of popular tunes and, whilst not for the beginner, it is hoped that this collection of guitar solos can be played, after a little practice, by guitarists with a reasonable level of skill. The songs have endured, not because of their greatness but because of their popularity with those masses of working people who sung and heard them. Perhaps, to paraphrase Carl Sandburg, a great collector of American songs, they should be "...overheard, rather than heard."

The story of a cycle journey made by an old man from England to Rome.

A story set in the 1800's in Australia on the Western Australian coast. Cossack the first settlement in the North of WA. Rich in Pearl Shell and pearls. Gold was found. Copper mined. Whalers called in to get on the grog. Aborigines made into slaves. Murdered and used as pearl divers. A real live wild west never to be repeated. An aboriginal pay back on those responsible for the murder of two hundred blacks at flying foam passage. Chinese merchants supplying opium. Pearl buyers, prostitutes and thieves all plying their trade. A rich history story based on factual happenings.

Jack Rogers was born in 1909 in East London, the son of a West Ham tram driver. In this little book he tells his story, in his own words, of his life, his family and his love of photography. He remembers his aunt getting him out of bed to show him a zeppelin on fire in the night sky. He remembers uncles returning from the Great War, beginning work in the Rag trade and how he bid farewell to his expectant wife on a crowded railway station, as Londoners fled the Second World War. He tells about being in the Home Guard, how he looked after his young family during the blitz in East London and how he rebuilt his house, and life, after the war. This is the story of one working man and his family living over the period of the two great wars of the Twentieth Century.

Power System Oscillations deals with the analysis and control of low frequency oscillations in the 0.2-3 Hz range, which are a characteristic of interconnected power systems.