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Australia's Great Explorers

Author : Denis Gregory
Publisher : Exisle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 192149770X
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Australia's Great Explorers written by Denis Gregory and published by Exisle Publishing. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The often harsh and unforgiving Australian landscape was a far cry from what the early colonisers were used to, and it proved a daunting obstacle to settlement. However, a few brave – and at times foolhardy – men were determined to prove themselves equal to the challenge. AUSTRALIA'S GREAT EXPLORERS looks at the tragedies and triumphs of men such as Wentworth and Lawson, Hume and Hovell, Burke and Wills, Leichhardt and Strzelecki as they battled to conquer the Great Diving Range, find an elusive inland sea, and traverse the length and breadth of this great country. This book is part of Exisle Publishing's Little Red Books series. Every title in the Little Red Books series provides an overview of key events, people or places in Australian history. They cover the essentials, bringing the reader up to speed on the most important, fascinating or intriguing facts. Appealing to everyone from students to pensioners who've always wanted to "know a bit about that", they're an essential part of every Australian bookshelf.

The Incredible Life of Hubert Wilkins

Author : Peter FitzSimons
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1472131479
Total Pages : 834 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book The Incredible Life of Hubert Wilkins written by Peter FitzSimons and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2022-05-05 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Hubert Wilkins is one of the most remarkable Australians who ever lived. The son of pioneer pastoralists in South Australia, Hubert studied engineering before moving on to photography. In 1908 he sailed for England and a job producing films with the Gaumont Film Co. Brave and bold, he became a polar expeditioner, a brilliant war photographer, a spy in the Soviet Union, a pioneering aviator-navigator, a death-defying submariner - all while being an explorer and chronicler of the planet and its life forms that would do Vasco da Gama and Sir David Attenborough proud. As a WW1 photographer he was twice awarded the Military Cross for bravery under fire, the only Australian photographer in any war to be decorated. He explored the Antarctic with Sir Ernest Shackleton, led a groundbreaking ornithological study in Australia and was knighted in 1928 for his aviation exploits, but many more astounding achievements would follow. Wilkins' quest for knowledge and polar explorations were lifelong passions and his missions to polar regions aboard the submarine Nautilus the stuff of legend. With masterful storytelling skill, Peter FitzSimons illuminates the life of Hubert Wilkins and his incredible achievements. Thrills and spills, derring-do, new worlds discovered - this is the most unforgettable tale of the most extraordinary life lived by any Australian.

Last Explorer

Author : Simon Nasht
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN 13 : 161608717X
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Last Explorer written by Simon Nasht and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of The Ice Master and Endurance, here is the incredible story of the first truly modern explorer, whose death-defying adventures and uncommon modesty make this book itself an extraordinary discovery. Hubert Wilkins was the most successful explorer in history--no one saw with his own eyes more undiscovered land and sea. Largely self-taught, Wilkins became a celebrated newsreel cameraman in the early 1900s, as well as a reporter, pilot, spy, war hero, scientist, and adventurer, capturing in his lens war and famine, cheating death repeatedly, meeting world leaders like Lenin and Stalin, and circling the globe on a zeppelin. Apprenticing with the greats of polar exploration, including Shackleton in the Antarctic, Wilkins recognized the importance of new technologies such as the airplane and submarine. He helped map the Canadian Arctic and plumbed the ocean depths from the icecap. A pioneer in the truest sense of the word, he became the first man to fly across the North Pole, which won him a knighthood; the first to fly to the Antarctic and discover land there by airpla≠ and the first to take a submarine under the Arctic ice. Grasping the link between the poles and changing global weather, Wilkins was a visionary in weather forecasting and the study of global warming. A true hero of the earth, he changed the way we look at our world.

Australia's Great Western Deserts

Author : Simon Nevill
Publisher : Woodslane Press
ISBN 13 : 9781925868548
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (685 download)

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Download or read book Australia's Great Western Deserts written by Simon Nevill and published by Woodslane Press. This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Field Guide to the Land Snails of Lord Howe Island

Author : Isabel Hyman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780975047682
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book A Field Guide to the Land Snails of Lord Howe Island written by Isabel Hyman and published by . This book was released on 2020-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lord Howe Island has Australia's highest diversity and endemicity of land snails. These beautiful but vulnerable creatures are not as readily observed or as well understood as the bird or plant life of the island, but play a vital role in the terrestrial ecosystem. For the first time, the native and endemic land snails of Lord Howe Island are shown together in this illustrated guide, designed for anyone from enthusiastic nature lovers to land snail specialists. Features of the guide include a pictorial guide to families and a dichotomous key for easy identification, and detailed descriptions of each genus and species, including distribution maps and photographs of the shell and (where available) the live animal. All descriptive terms are explained and illustrated in the introductory material and in the glossary.

The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888

Author : Ernest Favenc
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 written by Ernest Favenc and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issued under the auspices of the governments of the Australian colonies.

Burke and Wills

Author : Peter FitzSimons
Publisher : Hachette Australia
ISBN 13 : 0733634095
Total Pages : 702 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (336 download)

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Download or read book Burke and Wills written by Peter FitzSimons and published by Hachette Australia. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The iconic Australian exploration story - brought to life by Peter FitzSimons, Australia's storyteller. 'They have left here today!' he calls to the others. When King puts his hand down above the ashes of the fire, it is to find it still hot. There is even a tiny flame flickering from the end of one log. They must have left just hours ago. MELBOURNE, 20 AUGUST 1860. In an ambitious quest to be the first Europeans to cross the harsh Australian continent, the Victorian Exploring Expedition sets off, farewelled by 15,000 cheering well-wishers. Led by Robert O'Hara Burke, a brave man totally lacking in the bush skills necessary for his task; surveyor and meteorologist William Wills; and 17 others, the expedition took 20 tons of equipment carried on six wagons, 23 horses and 26 camels. Almost immediately plagued by disputes and sackings, the expeditioners battled the extremes of the Australian landscape and weather: its deserts, the boggy mangrove swamps of the Gulf, the searing heat and flooding rains. Food ran short and, unable to live off the land, the men nevertheless mostly spurned the offers of help from the local Indigenous people. In desperation, leaving the rest of the party at the expedition's depot on Coopers Creek, Burke, Wills, Charley Gray and John King made a dash for the Gulf in December 1860. Bad luck and bad management would see them miss by just hours a rendezvous back at Coopers Creek, leaving them stranded in the wilderness with practically no supplies. Only King survived to tell the tale. Yet, despite their tragic fates, the names of Burke and Wills have become synonymous with perseverance and bravery in the face of overwhelming odds. They live on in our nation's history - and their story remains immediate and compelling.

The Cartographic Eye

Author : Simon Ryan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521577915
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (779 download)

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Download or read book The Cartographic Eye written by Simon Ryan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-09-13 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cartographic Eye is about the mythologies of land exploration, and about space and the colonial enterprise in particular. An innovative investigation of the presumptions, aesthetics and politics of Australian explorers' texts, it concentrates on the period 1820-1880. Simon Ryan looks at the journals of John Oxley, Thomas Mitchell, Charles Sturt and Ludwig Leichhardt and shows that they are not the simple, unadorned observations the authors would have us believe, but are complex networks of tropes. The Cartographic Eye scrutinises and undermines the scientific and literary methodology of exploration. Its insightful analysis of the tendencies of colonialism will make a major contribution to 'new historicist' interrogations of colonialism. It will be a crucial text for readers in Australian literary and cultural studies, and for those interested in colonial discourse and postcolonial theory.

Mr. Stuart's Track

Author : John Bailey
Publisher : Picador Australia
ISBN 13 : 9780330423618
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (236 download)

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Download or read book Mr. Stuart's Track written by John Bailey and published by Picador Australia. This book was released on 2007 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 14 May 1858, an expedition of discovery led by John McDouall Stuart departed from a copper mine located on the very edge of the known world in the North Flinders Ranges. The Australian continent stretched for another 2,000 kilometres to the north and 2,500 to the west and no white man had the slightest idea of what was there. It was to be the first of six expeditions mounted by Stuart, then aged 42, as he sought to uncover the mysteries of the interior and forge a path to the north. Ultimately he was to become part of a race across the continent, his rivals being the Burke and Wills expedition. In the end Stuart was to be the first European to cross Australia from south to north and return again, as the cumbersome expedition of Burke and Wills turned from farce to tragedy. Yet his hero's homecoming was to be shortlived.Mr Stuart's Track is a fascinating study of a loner, an explorer of no fixed abode, who battled alcoholism and ill-health to push himself to the limits of endurance in crossing straight through the red centre to the northern seas.

The Explorers of Australia and Their Life-work

Author : Ernest Favenc
Publisher : Melbourne, Whitcombe
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Explorers of Australia and Their Life-work written by Ernest Favenc and published by Melbourne, Whitcombe. This book was released on 1908 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation pending.

Terra Australis: Text Classics

Author : Matthew Flinders
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1921961015
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (219 download)

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Download or read book Terra Australis: Text Classics written by Matthew Flinders and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this edited selection of his journals, Matthew Flinders, Australia’s greatest navigator and the man who named our island continent, describes in captivating detail his epic mission to map our shores between 1796 and 1803.

The Great Explorers

Author : Robin Hanbury-Tenison
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 0500774315
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Great Explorers written by Robin Hanbury-Tenison and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Penetrating biographies written by a group of distinguished travel writers, broadcasters, and historians reveal the lives, motives, and passions of forty major explorers in history. It has always been mankind’s gift, or curse, to be inquisitive, and through the ages people have been driven to explore the limits of the worlds known to them—and beyond. Here are the stories of forty of the world’s greatest explorers from Europe, America, Asia, and Australia. These are men and women who changed our perception of the world through their courageous adventures. Organized thematically, the book opens with the oceanic journeys of five hundred years ago, when the great era of recorded exploration began. The following sections look at The Land, Rivers, Polar Ice, Deserts, Life on Earth, and New Frontiers. Many of these explorers recounted their journeys in vivid firsthand accounts; others were superb artists or photographers. The book features quotes from their journals and reports, and it is illustrated with paintings, photographs, engravings, and maps, so that we can experience their adventures through their own eyes and in their own words. Featured explorers include: Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama, James Cook, Lewis and Clark, Richard Burton, Samuel de Champlain, David Livingstone, Roald Amundsen, Gertrude Bell, Alexander von Humboldt, Yuri Gagarin, and Jacques-Yves Cousteau.

Explorations in Australia

Author : Baron John Forrest Forrest
Publisher : Franklin Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780341874799
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Explorations in Australia written by Baron John Forrest Forrest and published by Franklin Classics. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Following Burke and Wills Across Australia

Author : Dave Phoenix
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN 13 : 1486301592
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (863 download)

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Download or read book Following Burke and Wills Across Australia written by Dave Phoenix and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2015-06 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every Australian has heard of Burke and Wills but few have travelled in their footsteps. In 2008, historian Dave Phoenix decided to walk across Australia from Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria, following the track taken by the ill-fated Burke and Wills Expedition. Now you can follow them too. Following Burke and Wills Across Australia guides you on a road trip that follows one of history’s great transcontinental journeys, sharing the explorers’ experiences on the way. Maps lay out a route that takes you as close as possible to the Expedition’s track. As you travel the outback roads, you can learn all the details of the day to day journey of the Expedition from the explorers’ own words, and compare what you see with their descriptions of the country in 1860–61. Each chapter provides information about what to see now: the location and descriptions of the markers and memorials placed along the route over the 150 years since the Expedition, and places where you can stand where the explorers stood and look out over prospects they drew and described. The book is a perfect companion for those wanting to see outback Australia, and at the same time understand a journey that has attained mythic status in the history of Australian exploration. Even if you want to follow only part of the track, this is the book for you.

Australia Twice Traversed

Author : Ernest Giles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Australia Twice Traversed written by Ernest Giles and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Captain Cook

Author : Stephen Feinstein
Publisher : Enslow Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781598451023
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Captain Cook written by Stephen Feinstein and published by Enslow Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Examines the life of Captain James Cook, a British explorer and scientist, including his early life, his many Pacific voyages, and his death and legacy"--Provided by publisher.

Great Australian Journeys

Author : Graham Seal
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1952535433
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (525 download)

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Download or read book Great Australian Journeys written by Graham Seal and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2016-10-26 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Graham Seal has the knack of the storyteller' - Warren Fahey AM Australia's history is one of epic journeys, intrepid explorers, and mysterious disappearances in far flung places. From perilous sea voyages to the distant south land, to forays across vast deserts on horseback, they are stories of endurance and misadventure, survival and loss. Master storyteller Graham Seal has gathered together a gripping collection of famous and lesser-known journeys by land, sea and air in the 19th and early 20th centuries. As Warren Fahey writes in his foreword, 'Some journeys, like those of Burke and Wills, Lasseter's First Find, and the razing of the riverboat Rodney, are relatively well known. Others, mostly unknown, are tales of bravado, determination and, sometimes, sheer madness.' From the comfort and safety of your armchair you can join some of Australia's bravest and also some of its most foolhardy men and women in their adventures.