Author: Charles SturtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Narrative of an Expedition Into Central Australia, Performed Under the Authority of Her Majesty's Government, During the Years 1844, 5, and 6
Author: Charles SturtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Narrative of an expedition into Central Australia, during the years 1844, 5, and 6
Author: Charles SturtPublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5878171597
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Narrative of an expedition into Central Australia, performed under the authority of Her Majesty's Government, during the years 1844, 5, and 6. Together with a notice of the province of South Australia, in 1847. In two volumes. Volume 1.
Narrative of an Expedition into Central Australia; Performed Under the Authority of Her Majesty's Government, During the Years 1844, 5, and 6, Together With A Notice of the Province of South Australia in 1847
Author: Charles SturtPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387037090
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 854
Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Narrative of an Expedition Into Central Australia
Author: Charles SturtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Narrative of an Expedition Into Central Australia
Author: Charles Napier STURTPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Narrative of an Expedition Into Central Australia, Performed Under the Authority of Her Majesty's Government, During the Years 1844, 5, and 6
Author: Charles SturtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Subverting the Empire
Author: Paul GenoniPublisher: National Library Australia
ISBN:
Category : Australian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
This paper examines the way in which contemporary Australian novelists use various tropes derived from exploration in order to embellish themes of personal search in their fiction. By doing so they have borrowed from the language and myths created by what was essentially an exercise in imperialism, and applied them to the quest by individuals in the settler society to find a permanent spiritual home in the new country. The exploration imagery proves to be apposite, in that just as the empire's hopes were dashed when exploration of the inland was repelled by the barren heart of the continent, so too has the metaphysical exploration of the same spaces foundered on uncompromising and withholding landscapes.
Australian Backyard Explorer
Author: Peter MacinnisPublisher: National Library Australia
ISBN: 0642276846
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Australian Backyard Explorer has been recognised on the 2011 White Ravens list for international children's and youth literature. Produced each year by the International Youth Library in Germany, the White Ravens recognise 'books of international interest that deserve a wider reception on account of their universal theme' or 'their exceptional and often innovative artistic and literary style and design'. Australian Backyard Explorer tells the stories of many intrepid individuals who explored the Australian continent in the first 120 years of European settlement. It includes little known explorers as well as the old favourites, such as James Cook, Edward John Eyre, Robert Oe(tm)Hara Burke and William John Wills. There are tales not only of tragedy, conflict and death, but also of loyalty, amazing perseverance and wonder over the new animals and landscapes they encountered.
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.
John Gould's Extinct and Endangered Mammals of Australia
Author: Dr. Fred FordPublisher: National Library of Australia
ISBN: 064227861X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
How poignant it is to look at some of Gould's beautiful images of our animals and know that some are no longer with us, and some are fighting for their lives? In this book, author Fred Ford compares Gould’s world, and the world that the animals live in at that time, with the world today. John Gould’s Extinct and Endangered Mammals of Australia includes 46 Australian mammal species that, today, are threatened or extinct and that were portrayed in the lavish colour plates in John Gould’s 1863 publication, The Mammals of Australia. Each animal ‘opener spread’ begins with a Gould plate accompanied by ‘At a Glance’—a very short summary; the conservation status according to the EPBC (Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation) list, the species names, a map of its former and current distribution and sites of reintroduction; and a timeline of the species history since European colonisation. Accompanying the pictures are accounts of the animals as they lived in the relatively untouched Australia that John Gould knew, and evidence of the attitudes of European settlers towards the native fauna. The author provides the reader with fascinating, and often poignant, material and stories of what would be considered today as shameful behaviour and attitudes towards Australia’s native fauna. In this book are not only sobering stories of the fate of these animals after Gould’s time, but also success stories of reintroducing species to places, ridding areas of introduced pests, and preserving habitat.