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Records of Peter Slater.
Ghost Squadron II, The Adventure Continues, is the sequel of Peter Walker’s days with the prestigious RAF during WWII. Peter has grown to be an adult, has a family, and becomes the youngest RAF Ace in WWII. Peter’s friendship with his mentor, Roland Bauer, the WWI Ace that instructed him on how to fly an old WWII bi-plane, grows into a father-son relationship. The book goes through Peter’s dangerous adventures, flying over France, Belgium, and ultimately Germany at the war’s end. The book takes actual dates, units, battles and puts them into written action for the reader. The author brings to life the everyday duties of an RAF pilot during wartime. The responsibilities of rank, leadership, and agony of friends that died on his watch.
Feather and Brush traces the history of bird art in Australia – from the simple engravings illustrating accounts of the earliest European voyages of discovery to the diversity of artwork available today. It explores the early European approach, in which naval draughtsmen, officers, convicts, settlers, naturalists, artists and scientists alike contributed both to the art and the science of ornithology, through to a wealth of contemporary artists who feature birds in their works. This book contains more than 400 images, representing the work of 158 artists; some well-known, others published for the first time. The illustrations have been selected for their interest, whether ornithological, h...
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