Tractors, kalashnikovs and green tea : my life of tractors and travels /
Johnston, Ian M.
Tractors, kalashnikovs and green tea : my life of tractors and travels / Ian M. Johnston. - 1st ed. - Dural Delivery Centre NSW : Rosenberg Publishing, 2011. - 1 online resource : illustrations
Includes index.
Authors Note; Prologue; 1 Elie; 2 Edinburgh; 3 Toil; 4 Sydney; 5 Burly; 6 The Motorcycle; 7 Some Hard Lessons; 8 Bulldog Days; 9 Back in the Bush; 10 Red Faces at Orange; 11 The Long Road to Griffith; 12 Leeton, Ludwig and Margery; 13 Old Joe; 14 Drama at the Show; 15 The End of an Era; 16 A Bad Experience; 17 Life After Lanz; 18 The Wrong Job; 19 A New Direction; 20 Green Tea and Orange Tractors; 21 The Unexpected Dilemma; 22 Chelmsford; 23 The Big Wet; 24 The Coast; 25 Journey into Fear; 26 Searching the World; 27 The Great Escape; 28 Indulgences; 29 The Farm Without Tractors.
This is a book about tractors, places and people. Ian Johnston is a renowned international expert on tractors. Ian begins with his boyhood in Fife and Edinburgh. He tells of venturing to Australia alone at the age of 16. His experiences as a jackaroo, a truck driver, erecting windmills and a tractor driver are full of interest and humour. And Tractors, always tractors. He brings to life the characters he meets. It was tractors that first took him to Japan and green tea. It was tractors and a visit to the Farmliner factory in Romania that introduced Ian to Kalashnikovs. Of course, he did chose.
English.
9781922013064 (electronic bk.) 1922013064 (electronic bk.)
Tractors--Australia--Juvenile literature.
Agricultural machinery industry--Australia--Juvenile literature.
Agricultural machinery operators--Australia--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Agriculture--Australia--Juvenile literature.
Agricultural machinery--Australia.
Machines agricoles--Australie.
Tracteurs--Australie--Ouvrages pour la jeunesse.
Machines agricoles--Industrie--Australie--Ouvrages pour la jeunesse.
Agriculture--Australie--Ouvrages pour la jeunesse.
JUVENILE NONFICTION--Transportation--Cars & Trucks.
Agricultural machinery industry.
Agricultural machinery operators.
Agriculture.
Tractors.
Australia.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Electronic books--Biography --Juvenile works.
Biographies.
Juvenile works.
S711
629.2252
Tractors, kalashnikovs and green tea : my life of tractors and travels / Ian M. Johnston. - 1st ed. - Dural Delivery Centre NSW : Rosenberg Publishing, 2011. - 1 online resource : illustrations
Includes index.
Authors Note; Prologue; 1 Elie; 2 Edinburgh; 3 Toil; 4 Sydney; 5 Burly; 6 The Motorcycle; 7 Some Hard Lessons; 8 Bulldog Days; 9 Back in the Bush; 10 Red Faces at Orange; 11 The Long Road to Griffith; 12 Leeton, Ludwig and Margery; 13 Old Joe; 14 Drama at the Show; 15 The End of an Era; 16 A Bad Experience; 17 Life After Lanz; 18 The Wrong Job; 19 A New Direction; 20 Green Tea and Orange Tractors; 21 The Unexpected Dilemma; 22 Chelmsford; 23 The Big Wet; 24 The Coast; 25 Journey into Fear; 26 Searching the World; 27 The Great Escape; 28 Indulgences; 29 The Farm Without Tractors.
This is a book about tractors, places and people. Ian Johnston is a renowned international expert on tractors. Ian begins with his boyhood in Fife and Edinburgh. He tells of venturing to Australia alone at the age of 16. His experiences as a jackaroo, a truck driver, erecting windmills and a tractor driver are full of interest and humour. And Tractors, always tractors. He brings to life the characters he meets. It was tractors that first took him to Japan and green tea. It was tractors and a visit to the Farmliner factory in Romania that introduced Ian to Kalashnikovs. Of course, he did chose.
English.
9781922013064 (electronic bk.) 1922013064 (electronic bk.)
Tractors--Australia--Juvenile literature.
Agricultural machinery industry--Australia--Juvenile literature.
Agricultural machinery operators--Australia--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Agriculture--Australia--Juvenile literature.
Agricultural machinery--Australia.
Machines agricoles--Australie.
Tracteurs--Australie--Ouvrages pour la jeunesse.
Machines agricoles--Industrie--Australie--Ouvrages pour la jeunesse.
Agriculture--Australie--Ouvrages pour la jeunesse.
JUVENILE NONFICTION--Transportation--Cars & Trucks.
Agricultural machinery industry.
Agricultural machinery operators.
Agriculture.
Tractors.
Australia.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Electronic books--Biography --Juvenile works.
Biographies.
Juvenile works.
S711
629.2252