Robert Whyte: 11 books

Book cover of Educating Edward

Educating Edward

The Story of a Boy in Trouble and the Man Who Saved Him

by Robert Whyte
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2013

Ten year old Edward lives with a group of boys in welfare housing that is badly supervised. He is attacked, abused and is only saved from a certain life of crime by a teacher who adopts him and takes him under his wing. But the community doesnt accept a man adopting a boy and they are both...
Book cover of A Field Guide to Spiders of Australia
by Robert Whyte, Greg Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017

Australians have a love–hate relationship with spiders. Some spiders, such as the Redback and the Sydney Funnelweb, inspire fear. Yet Peacock Spiders, with their colourful fan-spreading courtship dances, have won rapturous appreciation worldwide. A Field Guide to Spiders of Australia uses photographs...
Book cover of Sunny Boys

Sunny Boys

A Tale of Two Aussie Heroes

by Robert Whyte
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013

A pair of blonde headed twins is attacked by a band of drug dealers. They travel the world to find the man who wants them dead. But the man is always one step ahead of them. . Even the help of a detective who travels with them cant free them from the constant threat. A story about young men...
Book cover of Machismo

Machismo

A Blokes’ Tale of Two Mates a Couple of Wars and a Stack of Helicopters

by Robert Whyte
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014

An RAAF photographer survives an explosion in the Korean War and wake up with an Argentine Pilot. They become firm friends but the Aussie has to learn the hard way the true meaning of Machismo. A generation later, their sons fight different sides of another war and discover too late that Machismo has a better side. A tragic story of war, love, and friendship.
Book cover of The Whistling Butcher

The Whistling Butcher

An Arabian Adventure

by Robert Whyte
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014

A whistling butcher is probably not anything particularly abnormal, she told herself. After all there are plenty of singing butchers, butchers who tell you jokes, butchers who tell you their life stories. But this one, with his little striped apron and his long legs in very short shorts, big feet...
Book cover of The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories
by Alastair Gunn, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Washington Irving
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017

Twenty ghostly tales from the supernatural masters of the Victorian age. Wimbourne Books presents the fourth in a series of rare or out-of-print ghost stories from Victorian authors. With an introduction by author Alastair Gunn, Volume 4 in the series spans the years 1835 to 1869 and includes stories...
Book cover of The Man Who Kept His Head
by Robert Preston-Whyte
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2011

Fate deals hapless academic, Jamie Craig, a devious hand when, during an early morning jog in London's Kensington Gardens, he is caught in a monstrous web of intrigue and finds himself the target of the vengeful and sadistic leader of an international crime syndicate. Even his uncle's cattle farm...
Book cover of Sunstone. The Boy and the Dragon Princess
by Robert Preston-Whyte
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011

The imaginary island of Moight is home to a den of dragons, a community of giant, human-like Grylas and two human societies, the light-skinned Merridoc people and the dark-skinned Umwali people. The peace-loving dragons are invisible to the humans and Grylas because of mysterious rays emitted by the...
Book cover of Dragonmorte
by Robert Preston-Whyte
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011

In this sequel to 'Sunstone: The boy and the Dragon Princess', youthful dragons living under King Flamethrower Pendragon rebel against the old-fashioned values and standards of the dragon community. Their opportunity to escape from the conservative community and embrace so-called change comes when...
Book cover of Return of the leopard
by Robert Preston-Whyte
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011

For generations, the Byrne family has farmed cattle in the lush midlands of eastern South Africa. Then the arbiters of fate conspire to challenge them with the Rule of Three. The family head, Duncan Byrne, is blackmailed and contemplates suicide. That is the bad event. His son, Jack, meets an intriguing...
Book cover of Technoscience and Postphenomenology
by Lars Botin, Anette Forss, Michael Funk
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015

Friis and Crease capture Postphenomenology, a new field that has attracted attention among scholars engaged in technology studies. Contributors to this edited collection seek to analyze, clarify, and develop postphenomenological language and concepts, expand the work of Don Ihde, the field's founder,...
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