Author: Publisher:
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 1228
Book Description
Historical Records of New South Wales: Papers relating to Hunter and King, 1800-1802. 1896
Author: Historical Records of New South Wales: Hunter and King, 1800-1802
Author: New South WalesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New South Wales
Languages : en
Pages : 1154
Book Description
Historical Records of New South Wales: Hunter and King, 1800, 1801, 1802
Author: Public Documents of Massachusetts
Author: MassachusettsThe Great Barrier Reef
Author: James BowenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781139440646
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
One of the world's natural wonders, the Great Barrier Reef stretches more than 2000 kilometres in a maze of coral reefs and islands along Australia's north-eastern coastline. Now unfolding the fascinating story behind its mystique this 2002 book provides for the first time a comprehensive cultural and ecological history of European impact, from early voyages of discovery to developments in Reef science and management. Incisive and a delight to read in its thorough account of the scientific, social and environmental consequences of European impact on the world's greatest coral reef system, this extraordinary book is sure to become a classic.
The Life and Times of Six Australian Pioneers
Author: James Arthur LoftusPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 166410156X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
This true life adventure story is the saga of four ordinary Englishmen—a pair of banished, first-time petty thieves and a couple chosen to be settlers—who charted a course that led them to help build and mould an infant country on the remotest continent in the known world. Two of their offspring united to continue the adventure. Vivid first-hand accounts have been pried from the daily, hand-written journals and writings of first-class passengers, crew, and one of the convicts aboard the small wooden sailing ships, as they battled winter storms on the treacherous North Atlantic and Southern Oceans and endured scorching doldrums in the equatorial region. Mutinies, inventions, discoveries, and wars have been chronicled to provide a backdrop of the prevailing international, societal, and interpersonal relationships of the period. Characters from history’s stage weave their way through these pages—figures including James Cook, Horatio Nelson, Robert Emmet, Jonathan Swift, William Bligh, Lachlan Macquarie, Samuel Marsden, Walter Lawry, Alfred Howitt, and some long-forgotten souls like the tragic Margaret Sullivan. Artwork of the period is included to help stimulate the imagination and help place the reader beside the characters as they toiled to eke out an existence. The primary objective of this biography is a quest to achieve a broader, deeper understanding and appreciation of the typical person—including their struggles, challenges, and contributions—in early colonial New South Wales, Victoria, and New Zealand. The goal is to further the development of a robust comprehension of the Life and Times that these Six Australian Pioneers experienced, as well, the millions of other pioneers just like them. This book will also appeal to those with an interest in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Australian, European, and New Zealand history; late eighteenth-century ocean voyages; and those with an interest in artwork of the period.
Catalog of Government Publications in the Research Libraries
Author: New York Public Library. Economic and Public Affairs DivisionPublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
The First Wave
Author: Gillian DooleyPublisher: Wakefield Press
ISBN: 174305615X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
The European maritime explorers who first visited the bays and beaches of Australia brought with them diverse assumptions about the inhabitants of the country, most of them based on sketchy or non-existent knowledge, contemporary theories like the idea of the noble savage, and an automatic belief in the superiority of European civilisation. Mutual misunderstanding was almost universal, whether it resulted in violence or apparently friendly transactions. Written for a general audience, The First Wave brings together a variety of contributions from thought-provoking writers, including both original research and creative work. Our contributors explore the dynamics of these early encounters, from Indigenous cosmological perspectives and European history of ideas, from representations in art and literature to the role of animals, food and fire in mediating first contact encounters, and Indigenous agency in exploration and shipwrecks. The First Wave includes poetry by Yankunytjatjara Aboriginal poet Ali Cobby Eckermann, fiction by Miles Franklin award-winning Noongar author Kim Scott and Danielle Clode, and an account of the arrival of Christian missionaries in the Torres Strait Islands by Torres Strait political leader George Mye.
Historical Records of New South Wales
Author: Frank Murcot BladenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1152
Book Description
Janet Somerville's Botanical History of Tasmania, 1642-1820
Author: Janet SomervillePublisher:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description