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Author : Ion Llewellyn Idriess
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Works of Ion L. Idriess: Lasseter's last ride written by Ion Llewellyn Idriess and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ion Idriess
Publisher : ETT Imprint
ISBN 13 : 1925416933
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (254 download)
Download or read book Lasseter's Last Ride written by Ion Idriess and published by ETT Imprint. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (from The Spectator, May 1936) In his introduction to Lasseter's Last Ride (Cape, 7s. 6d.) Field-Marshal Sir William Birdwood writes : "The annals of Central Australian exploration are tragic and heroic, but it is long indeed since I read a more moving story of endurance and heroism in the face of terrific odds than the epic which Mr. Ion Idriess has woven out of the last few months of the life of L. H. B. Lasseter." The reader will agree with this, and wonder why he has not heard of Mr. Idriess before. He is well known in Australia, but this is his first book to be published in England. It will not be his last, if the present one meets with the success it deserves. Having himself been a prospector, the story he has constructed out of the fragments of documentary evidence - a few reports, the barely legible diary and letters found buried near Lasseter's last camps - is probably very close to what actually happened. Harry Lasseter had once discovered a rich gold reef in unexplored west Central Australia. Owing to a faulty watch, the bearings he took were useless. An expedition was fitted out to locate it. From the first, misfortune dogged the steps of the party. Food ran short and they returned to the base-camp - all except Lasseter, who went on alone. When his two camels bolted he was left waterless in the desert. Blinded by sand and tortured by dysentry, he found the reef, but died shortly afterwards, deserted by a tribe of aborigines with whom he had tried to make friends. Mr. Idriess tells this story in a simple, virile style which is, in its intense economy, comparable to Hemingway at his best.
Author : Bill Decarli
Publisher : Boolarong Biographies
ISBN 13 : 1922643068
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (226 download)
Download or read book Lasseter’s Reef written by Bill Decarli and published by Boolarong Biographies. This book was released on 2021-09-02 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fact or myth? Harold Bell Lasseter and his claim of finding a vast gold-bearing reef in Central Australia has continually been surrounded in mystery. Yet his ill-fated death in the Australian outback, where the land is unforgiving to the careless and the foolhardy, is relatively undisputed. Despite Lasseter taking secrets to a lonely desert grave in 1931, the story of the elusive gold reef has become a holy grail for explorers from near and far. One such explorer is Vietnam veteran Bill Decarli, who has spent the best part of forty years unravelling one of Australia’s greatest mysteries. On his maiden voyage to the outback in 1991, instead of heading towards Western Australia like other diehard explorers, Bill reversed his map and headed east towards Queensland. It was there that he struck upon the infamous gold reef, one that Lasseter had never laid eyes on, yet some how had been made aware of its existence. Based on significant new insights, and with a further nine trips to the reef, the key to putting all the pieces together, for Bill, was a man who barely left any trace of his own existence — until now. A story of adventurous hearts, honesty and resolve, in this new twist, Bill unearths how Lasseter’s claim was another man’s story, the exact location of the reef and how the reef stands to have a bright future.
Author : Lance Harold Bell Lasseter
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ISBN 13 : 9780207154799
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (547 download)
Download or read book Lasseter's Diary written by Lance Harold Bell Lasseter and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ernest Hunter
Publisher : ETT Imprint
ISBN 13 : 1922698288
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (226 download)
Download or read book Reef Madness written by Ernest Hunter and published by ETT Imprint. This book was released on 2022-06-01 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's a tale that doesn't seem like it would be a winner; an improbable proposition of a ten-mile reef of gold in the middle of the continent, a cabal of scheming investors, a farrago of poor planning and preposterous publicity, the fiasco of the prematurely celebrated triumph of technology over unforgiving terrain, a dead prospector - and no gold. The Central Australian Gold Exploration Company had it all, and Lasseter's Last Ride was in the stores before the final chapter of the real-life debacle had closed. It was a runaway success. Angus and Robertson sold three million copies of Ion Idriess' sixty-some books before he died in 1979. But in 1931, as he was working on what would be Lasseter's Last Ride, he was looking for an angle. In filling the gaps between the few facts with detailed descriptions of lands and people he had never seen, he found it - and promoted it - in Magic and Mystery. Idriess' fictional account of the last months of the life of Harold Bell Lasseter gave birth to a legend that has repeated in dozens of books, films, poems, podcasts, websites and exhibitions, is memorialised in the names of a highway and a casino, and has spawned searches and scams that continue nearly a century later. Idriess was probably surprised at its success and chose not to tamper with a winning formula when inconvenient material soon emerged. To do that he had to control the evidence and continued to insist on his narrative's unimpeachable adherence to fact. Reef Madness exposes how Idriess confected his first successful book and why the story of a failed prospector became a quintessentially Australian myth.
Author : Iain McCalman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521805957
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Gold written by Iain McCalman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-03-12 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, gold has been the stuff of legends, fortunes, conflict and change. The discovery of gold in Australia150 years ago precipitated enormous developments in the newly settled land. The population and economy boomed in spontaneous cities. The effects on both the environment and indigenous Aboriginal peoples have been profound and lasting. In this book, a team of prominent historians and curators have collaborated to produce an innovative cultural history of gold and its impact on the development of Australian society.
Author : National Library of Australia
Publisher : National Library Australia
ISBN 13 : 9780642276209
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (762 download)
Download or read book National Treasures from Australia's Great Libraries written by National Library of Australia and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 2005 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National treasures from Australia's great libraries brings our national memory to life, for the first time showcasing more than 170 treasures that have helped define our nation -- where we come from, who we are and what sets us apart. Both a guide and a lasting record of a remarkable exhibition, this richly illustrated catalogue reveals the magnificent collections of Australia's National, State and Territory libraries.
Author : Ion Llewellyn Idriess
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (217 download)
Download or read book Lasseter's last ride written by Ion Llewellyn Idriess and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roslynn Haynes
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040193706
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The Australian Desert written by Roslynn Haynes and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-11-04 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique book is the only fully interdisciplinary and comprehensive study of the Australian desert and its pivotal role in the cultural history of Australia. Beginning with the prehistory of the continent, it engages with geology, the Aboriginal Dreaming narratives of origin, the arrival of the first Australians, Aboriginal culture of the Dreaming, anthropology, colonial history and the cult of the inland explorer-hero, and integration of the central deserts through the responses of writers, artists, and filmmakers into the national identity. Chapters explore the unique way Indigenous artists have evolved a method of expressing their spiritual relationship to Country, while hiding from uninitiated eyes the secret-sacred meaning beneath the paint. It takes us on a journey through the politics of Land Rights for First Nations peoples, the Uluru Statement from the Heart, and an analysis of Indigenous ecological principles which may suggest a new and radical approach to navigating climate change in the Anthropocene. The Australian Desert is written for scholars of fine arts, anthropology, literature, film studies, cultural history, Indigenous studies, ecology and tourism, and for anyone interested in deserts.
Author : Ian Francis McLaren
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Australian Explorers by Sea, Land, and Air, 1788-1988 written by Ian Francis McLaren and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Warren Brown
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ISBN 13 : 9780733631603
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (316 download)
Download or read book Lasseter's Gold written by Warren Brown and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Harold Bell Lasseter disappeared in late 1930 it could have been the end of a mystery. Thirty-three years earlier he had staggered out of the desert, almost dead, his pockets bulging with gold, claiming to have found a 15 kilometre gold reef. The mystery deepened when he and a surveyor returned to the isolated and mysterious ranges where the reef was supposed to be located. It became legendary when the largest inland expedition since Burke and Wills was launched. In Lasseter's Gold, Warren Brown vividly recreates the drama of the search - the characters, the fights, the soaring temperatures, the impossible terrain, the plane crash, the pistol-carrying dingo-skinner who appeared out of nowhere. And just who was this man Lasseter? A one-time sailor, a bigamist, a man who claimed John Bradfield stole his plans for a single-span bridge to cross Sydney Harbour - was he also a very, very good liar? Lasseter's Gold is the gripping story of an outback legend. Is it just a myth - or is there really a massive gold reef out there, just waiting to be discovered?
Author : Keith Bulfin
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1459624610
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Undercover written by Keith Bulfin and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mexican drug cartels. Double agents. International money laundering. Gun fights. Massacres. This is a novel based on the life of Keith Bulfin - a conservative Melbourne father, pushing middle age - who is drawn into a world of drug smuggling and horrific violence in Mexico City. Keith is a stockbroker when, convicted of conspiracy to defraud, he...
Author : Adam Shoemaker
Publisher : ANU E Press
ISBN 13 : 0975122967
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (751 download)
Download or read book Black Words, White Page written by Adam Shoemaker and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This award-winning study - the first comprehensive treatment of the nature and significance of Indigenous Australian literature - was based upon the author's doctoral research at the ANU.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1810 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Australian national bibliography written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 1810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ion Idriess
Publisher : ETT Imprint
ISBN 13 : 1922384038
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (223 download)
Download or read book Prospecting for Gold written by Ion Idriess and published by ETT Imprint. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I felt certain there must be gold in those hills, Jack', wrote a prospector to Ion Idriess, 'but I know very little about the game.' And so Jack Idriess wrote Prospecting for Gold in 1931. This is the 20th edition and known throughout Australia as the classic self-help manual for would-be prospectors. 'This book is written to help the new hand who ventures into the bush seeking gold... The "towny" prospector, with this book as a guide, will soon master methods of prospecting and the working of his find.' In an easy conversational tone, the author of Lasseter's Last Ride and Flynn of the Inland sets many a hopeful prospector on the road to discovering gold.
Author : Jeremy Malcolm
Publisher : Terminus Press
ISBN 13 : 0980508401
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Multi-stakeholder Governance and the Internet Governance Forum written by Jeremy Malcolm and published by Terminus Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Multi-stakeholder governance is a fresh approach to the development of transnational public policy, bringing together governments, the private sector and civil society in partnership. The movement towards this new governance paradigm has been strongest in areas of public policy involving global networks of stakeholders, too intricate to be represented by governments alone. Nowhere is this better illustrated than on the Internet, where it is an inherent characteristic of the network that laws, and the behaviour to which those laws are directed, will cross national borders; resulting not only in conflicts between national regimes, but also running up against the technical and social architecture of the Internet itself. In this book, Jeremy Malcolm examines the new model of multi-stakeholder governance for the Internet regime that the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) represents. He builds a compelling case for the reform of the IGF to enable it to fulfil its mandate as an institution for multi-stakeholder Internet governance."--Provided by publisher.
Author : Ronald vClaude Bentley
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Wide Horizons written by Ronald vClaude Bentley and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
