Author: Malcolm UrenPublisher:
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Waterless Horizons
Author: Malcolm UrenPublisher:
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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Waterless Horizons ; the Extraordinary Life-story of Edward John Eyre
Author: Malcolm John Leggoe UrenPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Waterless Horizons. The First Full-length Study of the Extraordinary Life-story of Edward John Eyre, Etc. (Fourth Edition.) [With Plates, Including Portraits.].
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Author: Malcolm John Leggoe UREN (and STEPHENS (Robert) F.I.C.A.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Waterless Horizons; the First Full-length Study of the Extraordinary Lifestory of Edward John Eyre, Explorer, Overlander and Pastoralist in Australia [by] Malcolm Uren and Robert Stephens
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Author: Malcolm John Leggoe UrenPublisher:
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 249
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The Water Dreamers
Author: Michael CathcartPublisher: Text Publishing
ISBN: 1921656557
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The long-awaited history that will change the way Australians think about their country. The Water Dreamers is the story of the settlement of Australia: of the scarcity of water and the need to fill an imagined silence with the sounds of civilisation. From the moment the First Fleeters stepped ashore, water determined progress. The Tank Stream that flowed through what is now the Sydney CBD provided fresh water until settlers and their livestock fouled it. Then water from a nearby swamp was piped into the growing settlement. When it ran dry sights were set further afield. The Water Dreamers is an illuminating account of the ways people have imagined and interpreted Australia while struggling to understand this continent and striving to conquer its obstacles. It’s an environmental history and a cultural history with an unmistakable sense of how, today, we are part of that continuing story.
Esto Perpetua
Author: Hilaire BellocPublisher:
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Category : Algeria
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Road to Egdon Heath
Author: Richard BevisPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773567534
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Bevis examines a wide range of English, European, and North American texts, literary works as well as religious, scientific, and travel writing. He surveys the literature on mountain climbing, sea voyages, desert travel, and polar exploration, and its metaphorical uses in poetry and fiction. Relying on Addison's term "the Great" rather than "the sublime," he shows how works such as Darwin's journals, Lyell's studies in geology, and de Saussure's books on the Alps helped form an outlook on nature that also found frequent literary expression. A wide-ranging, interdisciplinary work in the history of ideas, The Road to Egdon Heath traces the growth of an aesthetic sensibility that is now ubiquitous but which would have been incomprehensible prior to the Renaissance. This sensibility underlies not only much of modern literature but also our modern ideas about conservation, ecology, and environmentalism.
The Waterless Sea
Author: Christopher PinneyPublisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780239696
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Mirages have long astonished travelers of the sea and beguiled thirsty desert voyagers. Traditional Chinese and Japanese poetry and art depict the above-horizon, superior mirage, or fata morgana, as exhalations of clam-monsters. Indian sources relate mirages to the “thirst of gazelles,” a metaphor for the futility of desire. Starting in the late eighteenth century, mirages became a symbol in the West of Oriental despotism—a negative, but also enchanted, emblem. But the mirage motif is rarely simply condemnatory. More often, our obsession with mirages conveys a sense of escape, of fascination, of a desire to be deceived. The Waterless Sea is the first book devoted to the theories and history of mirages. Christopher Pinney navigates a sinuous pathway through a mysterious and evanescent terrain, showing how mirages have impacted politics, culture, science, and religion—and how we can continue to learn from their sublimity.
Waterless Horizons
Author: MALCOLM. URENSPublisher:
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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