TY - BOOK AU - Johnston,Ian M. TI - Tractors, kalashnikovs and green tea: my life of tractors and travels SN - 9781922013064 AV - S711 U1 - 629.2252 23 PY - 2011/// CY - Dural Delivery Centre NSW PB - Rosenberg Publishing KW - Tractors KW - Australia KW - Juvenile literature KW - Agricultural machinery industry KW - Agricultural machinery operators KW - Biography KW - Agriculture KW - Agricultural machinery KW - Machines agricoles KW - Australie KW - Tracteurs KW - Ouvrages pour la jeunesse KW - Industrie KW - JUVENILE NONFICTION KW - Transportation KW - Cars & Trucks KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Electronic books KW - Juvenile works KW - Biographies N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=463983 ER -