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Happy 90th, David Burke! (Australian writer on railroads)
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leno...@yahoo.com
May 17, 2017, 1:59:04 PM5/17/17
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He was born in Melbourne and now lives in Sydney. He's a journalist and has also written novels.
Not to be confused with the 70-ish Sydney neurologist. Or the younger American language writer.
Some book covers:
https://www.google.com/search?q=david+burke+australia+railways&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiLyaXwvPfTAhXHxlQKHRzrD5oQ_AUIBigB&biw=1920&bih=937&dpr=1#imgrc=_
http://www.kiamaindependent.com.au/story/2856085/author-captures-septembers-head-of-steam/
(2015 article, with photo)
Middle third:
...Melbourne-born Burke worked as a teenager on the steam locomotives of the Victorian Railways. He became a radio script writer then moved to a career in journalism for the Melbourne Herald and Sun, then to The Sydney Morning Herald and other Fairfax publications.
He has written 28 books, including a number on railways and others on Antarctica, which he has visited six times.
Even after he shifted to a career in journalism, Burke never lost that passion for the activities of the railway.
"When I was younger, I liked the noise, the action and the mechanical side, but as you get older you realise the huge influence railways have on our social history.
"It still does - how many people today get the train from Kiama to Sydney?
"I got a couple of stories published, and someone said I should make a career in journalism rather than the railways.
"Less coal in your eyes and in between your fingers," he laughed.
Burke was also the first Australian journalist sent to work in Antarctica, covering the Trans-Antarctic Expedition and International Geophysical Year. His assignments included being an Australian observer aboard a US Navy C130 on the first (and only) direct flight from Australia to the South Pole...
(snip)
From "Contemporary Authors":
" 'Come Midnight Monday' was adapted for television and produced as a seven-episode serial by the Australian Broadcasting Commission, first broadcast in 1982."
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0316972/
(about the TV series)
"Four youngsters fight plans to close a country railway, scrap the veteran steam engine and build a highway."
https://www.google.com/search?tbm=vid&hl=en&source=hp&biw=&bih=&q=++%22Come+Midnight+Monday%22&oq=++%22Come+Midnight+Monday%22&gs_l=video-hp.3..0j0i30.945.945.0.1177.1.1.0.0.0.0.131.131.0j1.1.0....0...1.1.34.video-hp..0.1.131.raVBxvwkCEQ
(videos of the show)
WRITINGS:
(With C. C. Singleton) Railways of Australia, Angus & Robertson (Sydney, New South Wales, Australia), 1963.
Monday at McMurdo (novel), Reed (Auckland, New Zealand), 1967.
Come Midnight Monday (juvenile), illustrations by J. Mare, Methuen (North Ryde, New South Wales, Australia), 1976.
Great Steam Trains of Australia, Rigby (Adelaide, Australia), 1978.
Darknight (juvenile novel), Methuen (North Ryde, New South Wales, Australia), 1979.
("Story of a young reporter sent to an isolated community in an old mining town.")
Observer's Book of Steam Locomotives of Australia, Methuen (North Ryde, New South Wales, Australia), 1979.
(With Phil Belbin) Full Steam across the Mountains, illustrations by Phil Belbin, Methuen (North Ryde, New South Wales, Australia), 1981.
(With Phil Belbin) Changing Trains: A Century of Travel on the Sydney-Melbourne Railway, Methuen (North Ryde, New South Wales, Australia), 1982.
Kings of the Iron Horse (biography), Methuen (North Ryde, New South Wales, Australia), 1985.
Mary Ward, Then and Now (30-minute video program), Loreto, Kirribilli (Australia), 1985.
Man of Steam: E. E. Lucy, A Gentleman Engineer in the Great Days of the Iron Horse (biography), Iron Horse Press (Mosman, New South Wales, Australia), 1986.
With Iron Rails: A Bicentennial History of the Railways in New South Wales, New South Wales University Press (Kensington, New South Wales, Australia), 1988.
Road through the Wilderness, New South Wales University Press (Kensington, New South Wales, Australia), 1991.
Moments of Terror: A History of Antarctic Aviation, New South Wales University Press (Kensington, New South Wales, Australia), 1993.
The World of Betsey Throsby (versional history), illustrations by Anne Ferguson, Kerever Park (Bowral, New South Wales, Australia), 1994.
Making the Railways, State Library of New South Wales Press (Sydney, New South Wales, Australia), 1995.
Dreaming of the Resurrection: A Reconciliation Story, Mary MacKillop Foundation (Sydney, New South Wales, Australia), 1998.
American steam on Australian rails : the states and the commonwealth, 1877-2004, Indiana University Press (Bloomington, IN), 2004.
Voyage to the end of the world : with tales from the great ice barrier, University Press of Colorado (Boulder, CO), 2005.
Body at the Melbourne Club : Bertram Armytage, Antarctica's forgotten man, Wakefield Press (Kent Town), 2009.
Lenona.
Not to be confused with the 70-ish Sydney neurologist. Or the younger American language writer.
Some book covers:
https://www.google.com/search?q=david+burke+australia+railways&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiLyaXwvPfTAhXHxlQKHRzrD5oQ_AUIBigB&biw=1920&bih=937&dpr=1#imgrc=_
http://www.kiamaindependent.com.au/story/2856085/author-captures-septembers-head-of-steam/
(2015 article, with photo)
Middle third:
...Melbourne-born Burke worked as a teenager on the steam locomotives of the Victorian Railways. He became a radio script writer then moved to a career in journalism for the Melbourne Herald and Sun, then to The Sydney Morning Herald and other Fairfax publications.
He has written 28 books, including a number on railways and others on Antarctica, which he has visited six times.
Even after he shifted to a career in journalism, Burke never lost that passion for the activities of the railway.
"When I was younger, I liked the noise, the action and the mechanical side, but as you get older you realise the huge influence railways have on our social history.
"It still does - how many people today get the train from Kiama to Sydney?
"I got a couple of stories published, and someone said I should make a career in journalism rather than the railways.
"Less coal in your eyes and in between your fingers," he laughed.
Burke was also the first Australian journalist sent to work in Antarctica, covering the Trans-Antarctic Expedition and International Geophysical Year. His assignments included being an Australian observer aboard a US Navy C130 on the first (and only) direct flight from Australia to the South Pole...
(snip)
From "Contemporary Authors":
" 'Come Midnight Monday' was adapted for television and produced as a seven-episode serial by the Australian Broadcasting Commission, first broadcast in 1982."
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0316972/
(about the TV series)
"Four youngsters fight plans to close a country railway, scrap the veteran steam engine and build a highway."
https://www.google.com/search?tbm=vid&hl=en&source=hp&biw=&bih=&q=++%22Come+Midnight+Monday%22&oq=++%22Come+Midnight+Monday%22&gs_l=video-hp.3..0j0i30.945.945.0.1177.1.1.0.0.0.0.131.131.0j1.1.0....0...1.1.34.video-hp..0.1.131.raVBxvwkCEQ
(videos of the show)
WRITINGS:
(With C. C. Singleton) Railways of Australia, Angus & Robertson (Sydney, New South Wales, Australia), 1963.
Monday at McMurdo (novel), Reed (Auckland, New Zealand), 1967.
Come Midnight Monday (juvenile), illustrations by J. Mare, Methuen (North Ryde, New South Wales, Australia), 1976.
Great Steam Trains of Australia, Rigby (Adelaide, Australia), 1978.
Darknight (juvenile novel), Methuen (North Ryde, New South Wales, Australia), 1979.
("Story of a young reporter sent to an isolated community in an old mining town.")
Observer's Book of Steam Locomotives of Australia, Methuen (North Ryde, New South Wales, Australia), 1979.
(With Phil Belbin) Full Steam across the Mountains, illustrations by Phil Belbin, Methuen (North Ryde, New South Wales, Australia), 1981.
(With Phil Belbin) Changing Trains: A Century of Travel on the Sydney-Melbourne Railway, Methuen (North Ryde, New South Wales, Australia), 1982.
Kings of the Iron Horse (biography), Methuen (North Ryde, New South Wales, Australia), 1985.
Mary Ward, Then and Now (30-minute video program), Loreto, Kirribilli (Australia), 1985.
Man of Steam: E. E. Lucy, A Gentleman Engineer in the Great Days of the Iron Horse (biography), Iron Horse Press (Mosman, New South Wales, Australia), 1986.
With Iron Rails: A Bicentennial History of the Railways in New South Wales, New South Wales University Press (Kensington, New South Wales, Australia), 1988.
Road through the Wilderness, New South Wales University Press (Kensington, New South Wales, Australia), 1991.
Moments of Terror: A History of Antarctic Aviation, New South Wales University Press (Kensington, New South Wales, Australia), 1993.
The World of Betsey Throsby (versional history), illustrations by Anne Ferguson, Kerever Park (Bowral, New South Wales, Australia), 1994.
Making the Railways, State Library of New South Wales Press (Sydney, New South Wales, Australia), 1995.
Dreaming of the Resurrection: A Reconciliation Story, Mary MacKillop Foundation (Sydney, New South Wales, Australia), 1998.
American steam on Australian rails : the states and the commonwealth, 1877-2004, Indiana University Press (Bloomington, IN), 2004.
Voyage to the end of the world : with tales from the great ice barrier, University Press of Colorado (Boulder, CO), 2005.
Body at the Melbourne Club : Bertram Armytage, Antarctica's forgotten man, Wakefield Press (Kent Town), 2009.
Lenona.
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On Wednesday, May 17, 2017 at 10:59:04 AM UTC-7, leno...@yahoo.com wrote:
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