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Book Synopsis Fair Dinkum Histories #2 by : Jackie French
Download or read book Fair Dinkum Histories #2 written by Jackie French and published by Omnibus Books. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was the craziest, wildest and most daring expedition the world had ever seen. Eleven ships with nearly 15,000 people travelled 25,000 kilometers to the other side of the world. But what did they find when they arrived?
Book Synopsis Fairdinkum #2 Grim Crims and Convicts by : Jackie French
Download or read book Fairdinkum #2 Grim Crims and Convicts written by Jackie French and published by Scholastic Australia. This book was released on 2009-01-02 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was an incredible idea-to found a colony of convicts eight months' sail away from Great Britain. In a land with no cities, no farms, no rich spices. Just savages in huts. The Dutch, the French and the Portuguese had known about this place for two hundred years-and had turned their noses up at it. The Chinese had known about it for even longer and they weren't interested either. No country had ever thought to send a colony so far away. Why on earth would you bother?
Book Synopsis Fair Dinkum Histories (All the Stinky Bits): Convicts by : Jackie French
Download or read book Fair Dinkum Histories (All the Stinky Bits): Convicts written by Jackie French and published by Omnibus Books. This book was released on 2021-02 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Telling BITS of history as they really were! In 1788, beautiful Australia became a prison as England sent their convicts to the new colony on crowded, smelly ships. And when they arrived, they brought the stink with them. Life as a convict was toughflogging was frequent, food was scarce, and they knew almost nothing about farming. Let alone their new home. Life as a convict stankin every way! Welcome to the most STINKY look at Australia yet!
Book Synopsis The Catalpa Rescue by : Peter FitzSimons
Download or read book The Catalpa Rescue written by Peter FitzSimons and published by Hachette Australia. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The incredible true story of one of the most extraordinary and inspirational prison breaks in Australian history. New York, 1874. Members of the Clan-na-Gael - agitators for Irish freedom from the English yoke - hatch a daring plan to free six Irish political prisoners from the most remote prison in the British Empire, Fremantle Prison in Western Australia. Under the guise of a whale hunt, Captain Anthony sets sail on the Catalpa to rescue the men from the stone walls of this hell on Earth known to the inmates as a 'living tomb'. What follows is one of history's most stirring sagas that splices Irish, American, British and Australian history together in its climactic moment. For Ireland, who had suffered English occupation for 700 years, a successful escape was an inspirational call to arms. For America, it was a chance to slap back at Britain for their support of the South in the Civil War; for England, a humiliation. And for a young Australia, still not sure if it was Great Britain in the South Seas or worthy of being an independent country in its own right, it was proof that Great Britain was not unbeatable. Told with FitzSimons' trademark combination of arresting history and storytelling verve, The Catalpa Rescue is a tale of courage and cunning, the fight for independence and the triumph of good men, against all odds.
Book Synopsis Never to Be Released by : Paul B. Kidd
Download or read book Never to Be Released written by Paul B. Kidd and published by Pan Australia. This book was released on 2007-11-10 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about violent crime. Never to be released-a rare recommendation reserved for the most vicious of killers. The mass murderers. The serial killers. The child murderers. Those who rape and murder in gangs. With the help of legendary police rounds reporter, the late Joe Morris, Paul B. Kidd has compiled the inside stories of Australia's most horrendous crimes to help ensure that their perpetrators remain behind bars.
Book Synopsis Booms Busts and Bushfires by : Jackie French
Download or read book Booms Busts and Bushfires written by Jackie French and published by Scholastic Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Telling it like it really was-true-blue Aussie history! Australia had changed before, but slowly. Now everything was fast! Attitudes were evolving, technology was changing every aspect of life, and people were starting to recognise the damage we were doing to our land-and the way Australia's Indigenous people had been mistreated. Our resources had made us a rich country, but how long could the good times last? Join the fireys, goths, yuppies and greenies for the final instalment of the Fair Dinkum Histories. It's history as you've never seen it!
Book Synopsis The Legend of Moondyne Joe by : Mark Greenwood
Download or read book The Legend of Moondyne Joe written by Mark Greenwood and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the greatest escape artist of Australia's convict era - the legend of Moondyne Joe. "They'll not take my freedom away!" These are the words of Moondyne Joe, the beloved scoundrel and expert bushman of early Australian convict history. There wasn't a cell built that could contain him, and Joe often led the troopers on wild chases through the Moondyne Hills. This is the story of a colourful Australian legend from the award-winning team of Mark Greenwood and Frané Lessac.
Download or read book "Lags" written by Bill Edgar and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early settlers at the Swan River determined they would remain a free settlement, but after twenty years of unremitting struggle, as their economic circumstances became perilous, they were forced to petition the British Government for convicts and the much needed labour their presence would bring.Between 1850 and 1868, close to 10,000 male convict arrived in Western Australia from Britain. Far from being the detrimental influence many predicted, the 'lags', the detritus from the iniquities of the English legal and penal systems, injected new life into an stagnant economy. Despite a high percentage of original serious criminality among them, the vastly different environment in this most isolated of British settlements had a positive influence on these refugees from the cruel prisons and hulks of the Home country.The convict system in W.A. proved to be forward and benign by comparison with the systems of earlier decades in New South Wales and Tasmania. In consequence, many of the convicts who were landed at Fremantle subsequently became valuable citizens, helping to lay the foundations of early, modern Western Australia.
Book Synopsis Fair Dinkum Histories #1 by : Jackie French
Download or read book Fair Dinkum Histories #1 written by Jackie French and published by Omnibus Books. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indigenous people of Australia have lived here for tens of thousands of years. They survived the ice age and ancient global warming. They saw oceans sink and oceans rise. They watched the mega-beasts disappear and dingoes arrive. Theirs is the oldest civilization in the world. Then along came the Dutch. And the Portuguese. And the British. Things would never be the same again.
Download or read book Moondyne Joe written by Ian Elliot and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Fair Dinkum Histories #3 by : Jackie French
Download or read book Fair Dinkum Histories #3 written by Jackie French and published by Omnibus Books. This book was released on 2018-04 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rotters and Squatters continues the warts-and-all story of Australia from 1820 to 1850. This period saw new colonies founded and squatters spreading into new areas and taking the best land. Clashes with the Indigenous population were inevitable and often brutal. As the supply of convict labour dried up, free settlers began arriving and the demand for self-government grew.
Book Synopsis The Mickelberg Stitch by : Avon Lovell
Download or read book The Mickelberg Stitch written by Avon Lovell and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A real-life thriller. An ingenious swindle at the Perth Royal Mint nets a fortune in gold bullion, and the police turn on the three Mickelberg brothers, who are sentenced to long gaol terms. But the prosecution was based on a mass of questionable evidence, and now the Mickelbergs are hunting down their persecutors.
Download or read book Convicts written by Jackie French and published by Scholastic Australia. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Telling BITS of history as they really were! In 1788, beautiful Australia became a prison as England sent their convicts to the new colony on crowded, smelly ships. And when they arrived, they brought the stink with them. Life as a convict was tough—flogging was frequent, food was scarce, and they knew almost nothing about farming. Let alone their new home. Life as a convict stank—in every way! Welcome to the most STINKY look at Australia yet!
Download or read book Nanberry written by Jackie French and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2011-08-08 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The amazing story of Australia's first surgeon and the boy he adopted. It's 1789, and as the new colony in Sydney Cove is established, Surgeon John White defies convention and adopts Nanberry, an Aboriginal boy, to raise as his son. Nanberry is clever and uses his unique gifts as an interpreter to bridge the two worlds he lives in.With his white brother, Andrew, he witnesses the struggles of the colonists to keep their precarious grip on a hostile wilderness. And yet he is haunted by the memories of the Cadigal warriors who will one day come to claim him as one of their own. This true story follows the brothers as they make their way in the world - one as a sailor, serving in the Royal Navy, the other a hero of the Battle of Waterloo. No less incredible is the enduring love between the gentleman surgeon and the convict girl who was saved from the death penalty and became a great lady in her own right. AWARDS Honour Book - CBCA 2012 (Younger Reader's Book of the Year) PRAISE '[Jackie] is one of few masters who can embed historic characters in rattling good tales, and her meticulous research is seamlessly inserted so that you live the detail rather than learn it. Irresistible for history buffs of any age.' - Good Reading Magazine, five stars 'If every Australian history class in the country could be taught by Jackie French, we'd have an entire generation of kids with an enormous thirst for knowledge about our early European settlement and a whole lot more compassion for those who already called this country home.' - Sunday Tasmanian 'I've been telling all my friends to read this book, and to give it to their kids to read. It's absolutely engrossing.' - Herald Sun
Book Synopsis Australia's Serial Killers by : Paul B. Kidd
Download or read book Australia's Serial Killers written by Paul B. Kidd and published by Macmillan Publishers Aus.. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its first publication in 2000, Australia's Serial Killers has become a true crime classic. This edition is fully updated, bringing all the cases covered up to the minute. A recognised authority on Australia's most notorious criminals, Paul B. Kidd covers in unwavering detail 33 true stories of serial murder. In this gallery of infamy are world renowned killers the likes of the Night Caller, The Granny Killer, Ivan Milat, Kathleen Folbigg and the Snowtown murderers. Sixteen years in the researching, this comprehensive and ambitious work includes psychological opinions, court-room trials, detailed confessions, and exclusive prison interviews with three of Australia's most infamous serial killers.
Book Synopsis Miss Lily's Lovely Ladies (Miss Lily, #1) by : Jackie French
Download or read book Miss Lily's Lovely Ladies (Miss Lily, #1) written by Jackie French and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY IS EQUAL PARTS DOWNTOWN ABBEY AND WARTIME ACTION , WITH ENOUGH ROMANCE AND INTRIGUE TO MAKE IT 100% NOT- PUT- DOWN-ABLE. Australian Woman's Weekly A tale of espionage, love and passionate heroism. Inspired by true events, this is the story of how society's 'lovely ladies' won a war. Each year at secluded Shillings Hall, in the snow-crisped English countryside, the mysterious Miss Lily draws around her young women selected from Europe's royal and most influential families. Her girls are taught how to captivate a man - and find a potential husband - at a dinner, in a salon, or at a grouse shoot, and in ways that would surprise outsiders. For in 1914, persuading and charming men is the only true power a woman has. Sophie Higgs is the daughter of Australia's king of corned beef and the only 'colonial' brought to Shillings Hall. Of all Miss Lily's lovely ladies, however, she is also the only one who suspects Miss Lily's true purpose. As the chaos of war spreads, women across Europe shrug off etiquette. The lovely ladies and their less privileged sisters become the unacknowledged backbone of the war, creating hospitals, canteens and transport systems where bungling officials fail to cope. And when tens of thousands can die in a single day's battle, Sophie must use the skills Miss Lily taught her to prevent war's most devastating weapon yet. But is Miss Lily heroine or traitor? And who, exactly, is she?
Download or read book Word Up written by Mark McCrindle and published by The ABC of XYZ. This book was released on 2011 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone says the English language is changing in this global digital age. Everyone says the generations don't understand each other. Word Up is the complete up-to-date Australian guide to where our language is headed. Fascinating, colourful, easy to use and full of surprises. Includes a youth lexicon.
