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Author: Rachael Gurney Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1452017166 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 447
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'What would you think about going to live in Paris?' In 2003, having returned to the UK unexpectedly, Rachael Gurney was looking through the thousands of slides that her father had taken in the sixties and seventies. Trying to work out when and where they had been taken, she turned to the scrapbooks she had made as a child. Apart from the usual postcards, the scrapbooks were full of plane and boat tickets, and as a indication of things to come, lids cut out from cheese boxes, and labels lovingly soaked and dried from bottles of wine her parents had drunk. This helped her place many of the slides, and re-awakened fond memories of childhood, family holidays. Wanting to preserve these memories she started writing about them. However, it didn't stop there as she was enjoying the writing process so much and continued with further travelling tales. The result is part biography, part travel guide. It tells of some wonderful highs, counteracted by those disasters which make travelling so interesting. It also acts as a personal travelogue from places as diverse as Mexico, Slovakia and Singapore, and an insight into living and working in a number of counties, including Poland and Portugal.
Author: Rachael Gurney Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1452017166 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 447
Book Description
'What would you think about going to live in Paris?' In 2003, having returned to the UK unexpectedly, Rachael Gurney was looking through the thousands of slides that her father had taken in the sixties and seventies. Trying to work out when and where they had been taken, she turned to the scrapbooks she had made as a child. Apart from the usual postcards, the scrapbooks were full of plane and boat tickets, and as a indication of things to come, lids cut out from cheese boxes, and labels lovingly soaked and dried from bottles of wine her parents had drunk. This helped her place many of the slides, and re-awakened fond memories of childhood, family holidays. Wanting to preserve these memories she started writing about them. However, it didn't stop there as she was enjoying the writing process so much and continued with further travelling tales. The result is part biography, part travel guide. It tells of some wonderful highs, counteracted by those disasters which make travelling so interesting. It also acts as a personal travelogue from places as diverse as Mexico, Slovakia and Singapore, and an insight into living and working in a number of counties, including Poland and Portugal.
Author: Lesley Glaister Publisher: ISBN: 9780786200313 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 334
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On the brink of adolescence, the slightly confused Jennifer finds her world torn apart by recent revelations about her family's past, and she seeks to escape that past in her fantasies
Author: Harriet W. Daly Publisher: London, S.Low : Marston, Searle & Rivington ISBN: Category : Frontier and pioneer life Languages : en Pages : 392
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Chap.4; Natives on Mainland off Whitsunday Passage cannibalism prevalent; Chap.5; Contact with natives at Escape Cliffs (Woolna) & Darwin (Larrakiah); Chap.7; Nilunga, King of Larrakiahs, womens camp life; intertribal conflict with Woolna tribe; types of weapons, corroborees; Chap.17; Attack by Woolna natives; Chap.20; Murders at Barrow Creek, Daly Waters & Port Essington; Chap.21; Murder of Mr Travers by natives at Limmen Bight River; Chap.22; Daly River murders (Woggite tribe); Chap.23; Jesuit mission at Rapid Creek (about 7 miles from Palmerston); Chap.24; Daly River Mission; relations between Malays & Aborigines (Wessel Island); Chap.26; Cave paintings in Limmin River area; Chap.27; Need for definite native policy.
Author: Lesley Glaister Publisher: Open Road Media ISBN: 1497694132 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 184
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An English girl takes a “tumble into a warped wonderland” when her Lewis Carroll-inspired journey unearths unexpected secrets, desires, and dangers (Los Angeles Times). Trapped in suburban England, appalled by her parents, and desperately shy, twelve-year-old Jennifer Maybee is facing the terrors of adolescence alone. After reading Alice in Wonderland, she digs a hole in her backyard hoping to find what her mother calls the “topsy-turvy world of Australia.” Instead, led by a stray cat, Jennifer follows a secret pathway of a different sort. On the other side of a tangle of bramble, Jennifer claims her own Wonderland: an empty playground, a deserted church, and an unattended graveyard. But Jennifer isn’t alone. She meets something close to a friend in Bronwyn, a girl burdened by family tragedy. However, it’s in a squatter named Johnny that Jennifer’s fantasies for a new life begin to bloom. He’s too charming, and too unaccountably sexy for Jennifer to listen to those nasty rumors that he might be responsible for the disappearances of other lonely girls. All Jennifer can do now is marvel at the mysteries to come. From the Somerset Maugham Award–winning author, “dangerous secrets and sinister undertones power this uncommon coming-of-age tale” (Publishers Weekly). Jennifer Maybee, the protagonist of this “enormously enjoyable” novel of innocence lost, returns in Leslie Glaister’s Partial Eclipse (Nick Hornby). “Perverting Wonderland into a place to smoke cigarettes and pry into other people’s secrets . . . this Alice is a match for any dark thing she encounters.” —Los Angeles Times “Before Gillian Flynn, there was Lesley Glaister.” —Harper’s Bazaar
Author: Claire Smith Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 0387352635 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 352
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This field manual provides essential background information for those interested in undertaking archaeology in Australia. Professional archaeologists provide their personal tips for working in each state and territory, dealing with a living heritage, working with Aboriginal peoples, and coping with Australian conditions. Grounded in the social, political and ethical issues that inform Australian archaeology today, this book is also packed with practical advice.
Author: Mrs. Dominic D. Daly Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780282062408 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 390
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Excerpt from Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia The first three years of my sketch, viz., from 1870 to 1873, are written entirely from memory, unaided by notes, journals, or letters; and as my relatives who were with me then, are now scattered all over the world, I have been deprived of the help they would have given me. The latter part of the book I have compiled from every authentic source I have had access to. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Harriet W. Daly Publisher: ISBN: 9781296022907 Category : Languages : en Pages : 392
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: Harriet W Daly Publisher: Palala Press ISBN: 9781358649745 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: Seweryn Korzeliński Publisher: ISBN: Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 184
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Autobiographical account of life on the Victorian goldfields in the 1850s, told from a Polish perspective ; includes observations about and encounters with Aboriginal people.
Author: Rachael Gurney
Author: Rachael Gurney
Author: Lesley Glaister
Author: Harriet W. Daly
Author: Lesley Glaister
Author: Claire Smith
Author: Mrs. Dominic D. Daly
Author: Harriet W. Daly
Author: Harriet W Daly
Author: Mrs. Dominic D. Daly
Author: Seweryn Korzeliński