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    Mirage Resources International Pty Ltd (No Liability), and the Curious Affair of the Golden Windle Investment Project
    Mirage Resources International Pty Ltd (No Liability), and the Curious Affair of the Golden Windle Investment Project
    Mirage Resources International Pty Ltd (No Liability), and the Curious Affair of the Golden Windle Investment Project
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    Mirage Resources International Pty Ltd (No Liability), and the Curious Affair of the Golden Windle Investment Project

    By Lindsay Johannsen

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    Aussie battlers are built tough. Best them, burn ‘em out, bankrupt the buggers and back they’ll come, bold as brass and tonguing for another go – or ready to give something else a try. It’s their overarching optimism, see. And an ability to be philosophical about failure in any form, be it through crook fortune, flood, drought or disaster. But, as in any society, there are always “birds of prey” ...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLindsay Johannsen
    Release dateFeb 4, 2016
    ISBN9781311430878
    Mirage Resources International Pty Ltd (No Liability), and the Curious Affair of the Golden Windle Investment Project
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    Lindsay Johannsen

    There's not a lot to tell really, though on reflection, looking back on it through the lens of one’s recollections and memories, the whole business seems more akin to an extended Huckleberry Finn adventure, but set in the vastness of Central Australia. Born, raised and schooled in Alice Springs; taken from the leafy glades of learning mid-way through Year-eight to work at my father's remote little copper mine; later employed for some years driving his cattle-hauling road trains – him having pioneered road trains and the cattle hauling business (see "Kurt Johannsen: A Son of the Red Centre"). Married in the fullness of time; built a bush homestead on the northern edge of the Simpson Desert and raised a family there, all while running a small tungsten mining business and provisioning the hundred or so Aboriginal people local to the area who adopted us. Sold our mine and homestead a few years after the kids had flown the coop, acquired a forty foot (12m) touring coach, converted it into a big steel-wheel mobeel Palaise-de-passion motor home and took to the roads of this great land of Oz - in the main visiting our offspring (most of whom had moved to coastal regions), our grandchildren generally and a couple of great grandies, plus various friends and associates from years gone by. So these days all I have to do is keep the missus happy – my Bride my Precious Lamb and Flower of the Early Mid Morning. 'Anywhere you wish, my darling,' I tell her. 'You just say the word and we'll be on our way.' So it's free as the breeze, we are now, out and about having wild and exciting adventures and being amazingly cool generally. Best job I ever had.

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      Mirage Resources International Pty Ltd (No Liability), and the Curious Affair of the Golden Windle Investment Project - Lindsay Johannsen

      Mirage Resources International Pty Ltd (No Liability),

      and the Curious Affair of

      the Golden Windle Investment Project

      Published by Lindsay Johannsen at Smashwords

      Copyright Lindsay Johannsen 2016

      Smashwords Edition Licence Notes.

      This story is available to you Free. I insist on maintaining my copyright, however, but until such time as I become staggeringly famous and amend this notice please feel free to reproduce, copy, disseminate or distribute it generally amongst your friends and/or enemies by whatever means you have at your disposal and to your heart’s content, provided this is done in a purely non-commercial manner and the story remains complete and in its original form. My preference, though, is for you to recommend to others that they should download "Mirage Resources International Pty Ltd (No Liability), and

      the Curious Affair of the Golden Windle Investment Project"

      from Smashwords for themselves, so enriching my life with a warm glow of satisfaction in lieu of monetary reward.

      Thank you.

      National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-publication Data:

      Author: Johannsen, Lindsay Andrew

      Title: Mirage Resources International Pty Ltd (No Liability), and

      the Curious Affair of the Golden Windle Investment Project

      Cover art and design bungled by the author.

      Also published by the same author at Smashwords:

      The novels: McCullock’s Gold and The Cassidy Chronicles

      …plus some short stories and other rubbish.

      To order the

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