After years of boating in the waters of the Pacific Northwest and years of frustration in trying to find a log book that met their boating needs, Milo & Terri Walker of Seattle designed their own log book. With tabbed sections for vessel information, a cruising log, maintenance & fuel logs, a radio log with May Day instructions & VHF requirements, and vessel inventories for emergency equipment, spare parts & lights, their log book became an instant success. Out of a selection of 25 log books, the Walker Common Sense Log Book is the publisher's national marine distributor's best-selling log book coast to coast. No wonder it is on its sixth printing.

This is the story of Ray Fryer's 'making something worthwhile' of Urapunga, a run-down property on the Roper River. It is a story of years of rough living and hard work, learning to live in harmony with the tribal Aborigines, of coping with crocodiles, diseases among his stock, being cut off in the Wet and more.

An encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and senior high school students.