Author: Charles De Boos
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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Fictional account of attack on settlers hut in Hunter River district, and subsequent revenge of the survivors of the Aborigines.

Author: Robert Michael Ballantyne
Publisher: Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 1163

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Classic text republished as an eBook.

Author: James Savage
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780806309620
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 672

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A dictionary of surnames of the first settlers of New England and 3 successive generations prior to 1692.

Author: John O'Leary
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9401206864
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Preliminary Material -- Texts in Context: Nineteenth-Century Settler Culture -- “Bold, unfettered rhapsodies”: Nineteenth-Century Versifications of Indigenous Orature -- “We owe them all that we possess”: 'Savage' Songs and Laments -- “Unlocking the fountains of the heart”: Settler Verse and the Politics of Sympathy -- Indigenous Romeos and Juliets: Romantic Verse Melodramas -- “In their strange customs versed”: Ethnographic Verse Epics -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Works Cited -- Index.

Author: David Chidester
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813916644
Category : Africa, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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This work examines the emergence of the concepts of religion and religions on 19th-century colonial frontiers. It analyzes the ways in which European settlers, and indigenous Africans, engaged in the comparison of alternative religious ways of life as one dimension of intercultural activity.

Author: Robert Michael Ballantyne
Publisher: Litres
ISBN: 5041636850
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 373

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Author: Robert Michael Ballantyne
Publisher: F.E. Grafton, [187-?]
ISBN:
Category : Cape Town (Western Cape)
Languages : en
Pages : 452

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Author: Ellena Savage
Publisher: Text Publishing
ISBN: 1925923177
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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A stimulating combination of memoir, essay, poetry, confession and critique, Blueberries is a powerful and revealing collection from a rising star in Australian creative non-fiction.

Author: Mrs. Edward Millett
Publisher: London : E. Stanford
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 444

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P.72-88; Barladong (60 miles E. of Perth) - visits to parsonage by natives, physical appearance, clothes, shelters built by women, camp arrangements; solitary fires lit to keep ghosts warm at grave; general beliefs; revenge killings for all deaths; description of graves; use of Wilghee for body decoration; p.99; Foods; p.128; Brief notes on Wesleyan Mission school at Barladong; Aboriginal school established by Mrs Camfield, Albany; native prison, Rottnest Island; p.142- 143; Burial; p.221-3; Kylies, birds eaten; p.228; Punishment for hunting in foreign tribal territory; p.257; Measles epidemic, 1860, King Georges Sound; p.273- 299; Account of New Norcia Mission (taken from Salvado, Memorie Storiche dell Australia ...); p.365; Glass spears; scarification; p.367-72; Fight over woman; wife inheritance; polygamy; p.414; Brief note on Aboriginal school at Perth.

Author: Benjamin Woolley
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007404972
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 484

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Epic history of the first Virginia Colony and the true story of Pocahontas, to coincide with the colony’s 400th anniversary in 2007.