Alistair Brooks

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Alistair Brooks is an English-born Australian who, very early on in life, found that he suffered from that serious, and not infrequently fatal, addiction known as "The Explorer's Itch". It is a condition that has in no way been eased by him always having been intensely curious about pretty much everything, from the seemingly mundane and tiny, to the incredible and vast, the miraculous and, far beyond, into the mysterious and the inexplicable. It is a condition that has been further spurred on by serendipity; that faculty of making fortunate discoveries quite by accident and, in the process, having adventure-filled opportunities present themselves in the most unexpected, fortuitous and rewarding ways.

Now, even in his eighties, Alistair still finds he is unable, indeed wholly unwilling, to counter any of the addictive symptoms of his Explorer's Itch. Instead, like many others who have learned to live with this totally incurable condition, he has found that writing books about his experiences, is the most satisfying and refreshing way of unburdening himself.

The latest title First Fly Last Fly — musings on the mundane to the miraculous is now available from any good book store online or in store. This title and previous titles are also available for order directly from the author on the links below.

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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