Alistair Brooks

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Alistair Brooks is in his eighties. An English-born Australian, he was educated at Gordon School in England and Simon Fraser University in Canada. Since the early 1960s he has travelled widely, most particularly in the Americas. He has Spanish as a second language and has been variously employed. His occupations have included being a teacher of geography, history and mathematics, a mountaineering guide, instructor and explorer, a classical and flamenco guitar recitalist, a lecturer in Anthropology, a scientific investigator engaged in botanical, geomorphological and anthropological research. He has been anthropological advisor to Ministers of Aboriginal Affairs in the Victorian Government and the Australian Federal Government. He is also in full-time practice as an internationally qualified and registered equine therapist. In addition, he is a writer having authored five books, the most recent of which is, ‘The God Thing’.

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ISBN 0646 43330 X (pbk)

This first book, Fined Four Pounds - Licence Removed: Tales Of A Self-funded Transportee, provides an intriguing autobiographical insight into Alistair's first sixty years, beginning in a fiercely cold, war-torn England, and ending peacefully beside a campfire in the Northern Territory of Australia. His tales, with their numerous threads of pathos, extreme adventure, comedy and high drama, reveal that his life has been everything but ordinary, and that he has enjoyed his living of it enormously, and continues to do so.

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ISBN 9780646943039 (pbk)

In this second book, About Horses of Course and Horse Humans Too, Alistair weaves an intricately rich and distinctive narrative seen entirely from the standpoint of one very old, wise horse. Sun Dancer tells the reader about horses, from their beginnings in North America fifty-five million years ago right down to the present day, making it clear in the process that, without the horse, the unfolding of human history as we know it to have occurred would have been utterly and unrecognisably different.

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ISBN 9781921496202 (pbk)

The third book in the series, Grandmother’s Thimble, is as different from the previous two as they are from each other. Yet, a reader of all three will find this latest book is related to the other two via numerous common ideas and influences, which connect and re-connect to make up the broad and colourful canvas of a fortunate life, which includes being a horseman, a natural healer and an anthropologist, as well as a teacher, a mountaineer, an artist, and a poet.

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ISBN 9780645156294 (pbk)

In this, his latest autobiographical anthology, Alistair offers a collection of personal musings that, in narrative and rhyme, take the reader on a powerful, evocative, event-filled literary adventure from the mundane to the miraculous, embracing along the way stories heroic, magical, mystical, improbable, murderous, masterful, comic, musical, and meditative.

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