Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download My Home in Tasmania PDF full book. Access full book title My Home in Tasmania by Louisa Anne Meredith. Download full books in PDF and EPUB format.
Author: Louisa Anne Meredith Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108020348 Category : Tasmania Languages : en Pages : 294
Book Description
Louisa Anne Meredith's account of her life in Tasmania was published in 1852. She was an experienced traveller, and this work is remarkable for being the first detailed account by a woman of life in the colony. Its shrewd observations and descriptive personal narrative make it an engaging read, as well as providing a valuable historical record. A keen botanist and artist, Meredith describes the island's natural life in great detail in beautiful and evocative passages. In Volume 2 she provides more anecdotes of her life, including descriptions of the animals she encounters and journeys made within the island. She also covers more social issues, looking at religion and custom in the colony among the settlers and the natives, and closing the book with an examination of Tasmania's industry and trades. For more information on this author, see http://orlando.cambridge.org/public/svPeople?person_id=merelo.
Author: Louisa Anne Meredith Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108020348 Category : Tasmania Languages : en Pages : 294
Book Description
Louisa Anne Meredith's account of her life in Tasmania was published in 1852. She was an experienced traveller, and this work is remarkable for being the first detailed account by a woman of life in the colony. Its shrewd observations and descriptive personal narrative make it an engaging read, as well as providing a valuable historical record. A keen botanist and artist, Meredith describes the island's natural life in great detail in beautiful and evocative passages. In Volume 2 she provides more anecdotes of her life, including descriptions of the animals she encounters and journeys made within the island. She also covers more social issues, looking at religion and custom in the colony among the settlers and the natives, and closing the book with an examination of Tasmania's industry and trades. For more information on this author, see http://orlando.cambridge.org/public/svPeople?person_id=merelo.
Author: James Boyce Publisher: Black Inc. ISBN: 1921825391 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 402
Book Description
Winner of the 2009 Tasmania Book Prize Winner of the 2008 Colin Roderick Award Almost half of the convicts who came to Australia came to Van Diemen’s Land. There they found a land of bounty and a penal society, a kangaroo economy and a new way of life. In this book, James Boyce shows how the convicts were changed by the natural world they encountered. Escaping authority, they soon settled away from the towns, dressing in kangaroo skin and living off the land. Behind the official attempt to create a Little England was another story of adaptation, in which the poor, the exiled and the criminal made a new home in a strange land. This is their story, the story of Van Diemen’s Land. Shortlisted in the 2009 Prime Minister's Literary Awards, the 2009 NSW Premier's Literary Awards, the 2010 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, the 2008 Age Book of the Year Awards, the 2008 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, the 2008 Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, the 2008 NSW Premier's History Awards and the 2008 Australian Book Industry Awards ‘A brilliant book and a must-read for anyone interested in how land shapes people.’ —Tim Flannery ‘The most significant colonial history since The Fatal Shore. In re-imagining Australia's past, it invents a new future.’ —Richard Flanagan ‘Like the best history, Van Diemen's Land is not an artfully constructed narrative with the (inevitably inadequate) evidence banished to endnotes, but a dialogue between historian and reader as they explore the fragile sources, and the silences, together.’ —Inga Clendinnen ‘The publication of Van Diemen's Land signals an entirely fresh approach to Australian history-writing ... This is a brilliant publication.’ —Alan Atkinson ‘A fresh and sparkling account.’ —Henry Reynolds James Boyce is the multiple award-winning author of Born Bad, 1835 and Van Diemen’s Land. He has a PhD from the University of Tasmania, where he is an honorary research associate of the School of Geography and Environmental Studies.
Author: Nicholas Shakespeare Publisher: ABRAMS ISBN: 1468304291 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 402
Book Description
From the renowned British author of The Dancer Upstairs comes this “meticulous, lyrical history” of the remote island and his family’s connection to it (Publishers Weekly). Hailed by the Wall Street Journal as “one of the best English novelists of our time,” Nicholas Shakespeare decided to move to Tasmania after falling in love with its exceptional beauty. Only later did he discover a cache of letters that revealed a deep and complicated family connection to the island. They were written by an ancestor as corrupt as he was colorful: Anthony Fenn Kemp (1773–1868), the so-called Father of Tasmania. Then Shakespeare discovered more unknown Tasmanian relations: A pair of spinsters who had never left their farm except once, in 1947, to buy shoes. Their journal recounted a saga beginning in Northern England in the 1890s with a dashing but profligate ancestor who ended his life in the Tasmanian bush. In this fascinating history of two turbulent centuries in an apparently idyllic place, Shakespeare weaves the history of the island with multiple narratives, a cast of unlikely characters from Errol Flynn to the King of Iceland, a village full of Chatwins, and a family of Shakespeares. “Tasmania is an enigmatic place and Shakespeare captures it with an appreciative eye.” —The Guardian
Author: Mary Randall Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1477158995 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 207
Book Description
Hang on tight to your lucky baseball cap and get ready for an action packed adventure that will lead you on the journey of a lifetime! Join Bobby and his new pals as they take you to the mystical Queensland outback, the coastal plains, and discover prehistoric mysteries of the Great Barrier Reef. Come face to face with a mythical Aboriginal outback creature called a Bunyip. Hear the eerie sounds of ghosts of a long ago penal colony calling out to you as you ride your skateboard along the banks of the Brisbane River. Find out what was created after a falling comet struck the northern Queensland outback. Feel your heart pumping in your chest and the hair rising up on the back of your neck as you come up against evil creatures who want to become the great race. Enjoy secrets, magic, suspense, talking Aussie animals, and just plain fun as you wind your way along with Bobby and his pals way down under. You too may find yourself wondering just whats going to happen next! Its so-way-cool!
Author: Louisa Anne Meredith
Author: Louisa Anne Meredith
Author: Mrs. Charles Meredith
Author: Mrs Charles Meredith
Author: Mrs. Charles Meredith
Author: James Boyce
Author: Public Library of New South Wales
Author: Mrs. Charles Meredith
Author: Nicholas Shakespeare
Author: John Alexander Ferguson
Author: Mary Randall