Author: Publisher: National Library Australia
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 1734
Book Description
Australian National Bibliography
Author: Publisher: National Library Australia
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 1734
Book Description
Who's who in Australia
Author: Who's who in the Commonwealth of Australia
Author: Clive
Author: Sean ParnellPublisher:
ISBN: 9780732296339
Category : Billionaires
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Big-spending Queensland billionaire Clive Palmer bought a football team, helped create a political party, and is set to recreate the 'Titanic' and build a dinosaur park. But are these just fanciful splurges or something more calculated? The reality is that Palmer uses his immense mining wealth (estimated at over $6 billion) in a proactive (if sometimes eccentric) global way. His personal story is just as colourful and intriguing: Clive spent time as a child in China and writes poetry. He is well-known for attention-grabbing statements that send the media into a spin. Shortly after Clive was named a National Living Treasure, he claimed that the CIA was secretly backing green groups in a bid to kill the Australian coal-mining industry. In true Clive fashion, in May 2012 he announced that he was building a luxury cruise liner - the 'Titanic II' - and his political feuds are legendary. Part business expose, part political insider profile, and all rollicking tale, this is a dramatic portrayal of the man himself and the unconventional life he leads.
Anthology of Australian Aboriginal Literature
Author: Anita HeissPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773597182
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 583
Book Description
In a political system that renders them largely voiceless, Australia's Aboriginal people have used the written word as a powerful tool for over two hundred years. Anthology of Australian Aboriginal Literature presents a rich panorama of Aboriginal culture, history, and life through the writings of some of the great Australian Aboriginal authors. From Bennelong's 1796 letter to contemporary writing, Anita Heiss and Peter Minter have selected works that represent the range and depth of Aboriginal writing in English. Journalism, petitions, and political letters from both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are brought together with major works of poetry, prose, and drama from the mid-twentieth century onward. These works voice not only the ongoing suffering of dispossession but the resilience of Australia's Aboriginal people, their hope and joy. Presenting some of the best, most distinctive writing produced in Australia, this groundbreaking anthology will captivate anyone interested in Aboriginal writing and culture.
Climbing Glass
Author: Lyle ClossPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Climbing Glass is a unique personal view of climbing, climbers and Tasmanian and Australian climbing and mountaineering from a personal perspective from the 1970s to 2010s. Coverings climbs and expeditions in Tasmania, Greenland, Australia, K2 and Antarctica from the 1970s on.
Australian Books in Print
Author: Who's who of Australian Writers
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
A comprehensive listing of 5200 living Australian authors, covering all fiction and non-fiction genres. For each writer a complete list of books; plays; and radio, television and film scripts is included, along with the names of periodicals in which their work has appeared. Among other items covered are pseudonyms, employment history, awards, contact details and availability for various activities. An index lists writers by over 100 subject categories.
Australia, a Cultural History
Author: John RickardPublisher: Longman Publishing Group
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Author: