Author: James MartinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Journals and Reports of Two Voyages to the Glenelg River, and the North-west Coast of Australia, 1863-4
Author: James MartinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Bibliography of Australia
Author: John Alexander FergusonPublisher: National Library Australia
ISBN: 9780642990495
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1204
Book Description
Contributions to a Catalogue of Works, Reports and Papers
Author: Robert Etheridge (Junior)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Australian Rare Books 1788-1900
Author: Jonathan WantrupPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040289371
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
This book is a demonstration of the richness, worth and vitality of Australian documentary record. At the same time, it is an introduction to collecting Australiana for those who, if not already bitten by the book bug, have been dangerously exposed to it. Readers who are immune to the attractions of collecting but who value our past and its books will also find something to interest them in the following pages.
Memoirs of the Geological Survey of New South Wales
Author: Memoirs ...
Author: Analytical and Classified Catalogue of the Library of the Parliament of Queensland
Author: Queensland. Parliament. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Queensland
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Pamphlets on Biology
Author: Analytical and Classified Catalogue of the Library ...: A-H
Author: Dennis O'DonovanEuropean Discovery and Exploration of Australia
Author: Erwin FeekenPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1543401686
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 753
Book Description
The map of Australia abounds with fascinating geographical place-names, the origins of which have, for long, been hidden in the journals of our early explorers. Now after nine years of research, Erwin Feeken, a highly qualified cartographer, and his wife, Gerda, have finalised the first complete record of Australian geographical place-names and the most comprehensive general reference work on Australian exploration ever published. In European Discovery and Exploration of Australia, there are twenty-three beautifully drawn four-colour maps plus index showing the routes of more than 120 explorers with the locality of their named features numbered to accord with a Key to the Maps. The place-names in the Key have been numbered approximately in chronological order of their naming, though places found during a single expedition have been grouped together. There is also a gazetteer containing over four thousand place-names alphabetically arranged with notes on their origins. The map reference numbers (in brackets) form a cross-reference with the Key to the Maps. The work is introduced by a foreword from Lord Casey and an essay on the nature of Australian exploration by Professor O. H. K. Spate, director of the Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University. The text, comprising a survey of Australian exploration, is arranged in the form of biographies of the explorers (describing, for the first time, several almost unknown figures) with emphasis on their expeditions and under the following headings: “The Approach to Australia”; “Exploration before Settlement, 1606–1788”; “From Botany Bay to the Blue Mountains, 1788–1813”; “Land and Sea Expeditions, 1813–1901.” This section of the book is very fully illustrated with 18 full-colour plates and some 150 black-and-white photographs, mostly reproductions of early prints. Concluding the book are bibliographies of sources and references, a list of illustrations, and an index of explorers and ships. The comprehensive nature of this work will ensure that it becomes a valuable reference book for students, while the text and illustrations will appeal to all who are interested in our history. Collectors of Australiana will welcome this most attractive addition to the ever-increasing number of available publications.