A Banquet of Books

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Publisher : National Library Australia
ISBN 13 : 9780642276490
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (764 download)

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Download or read book A Banquet of Books written by National Library of Australia and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 2007 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scattered throughout the astonishing collection of the National Library of Australia are countless gems: beautiful books, ancient books, one-of-only-two-in-the-world books, big books, slim books published as pamphlets, and miniscule books.This describes some of the rare, beautiful or significant books in the Library's collection.

A Mother's Offering to Her Children

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ISBN 13 : 9780701612146
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (121 download)

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Book Synopsis A Mother's Offering to Her Children by : Lady long resident in New South Wales

Download or read book A Mother's Offering to Her Children written by Lady long resident in New South Wales and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Written when our ancestors had a strong faith in the worth of facts as educative agents, and many educators believed that children's books should not only be morally improving, but should also set an example by offering only plain truth rather than mendacious flights of fancy. It gives a rare and authentic glimpse of life in the early years of Australia using the "catechism" technique which was much used for most of the nineteenth century, particularly in works aiming to disseminate knowledge. Within its limitations, the book does repesent a real attempt to communicate to children some of qualities of the Australian scene, and, within the self-imposed constraints of "truth", to offer relevant stories of high adventure." -- Introduction.

In the Wake of First Contact

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Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521499200
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (992 download)

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Book Synopsis In the Wake of First Contact by : Kay Schaffer

Download or read book In the Wake of First Contact written by Kay Schaffer and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1995 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, colonialism, race, and gender are explored through the cultural representations of an episode of Australian history.

Memoirs of the Geological Survey of New South Wales

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of the Geological Survey of New South Wales written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

In the Eye of the Beholder

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Publisher : ANU Press
ISBN 13 : 1925021971
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (25 download)

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Book Synopsis In the Eye of the Beholder by : Barbara Dawson

Download or read book In the Eye of the Beholder written by Barbara Dawson and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2014-11-19 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a fresh perspective in the debate on settler perceptions of Indigenous Australians. It draws together a suite of little known colonial women (apart from Eliza Fraser) and investigates their writings for what they reveal about their attitudes to, views on and beliefs about Aboriginal people, as presented in their published works. The way that reader expectations and publishers’ requirements slanted their representations forms part of this analysis. All six women write of their first-hand experiences on Australian frontiers of settlement. The division into ‘adventurers’ (Eliza Fraser, Eliza Davies and Emily Cowl) and longer-term ‘settlers’ (Katherine Kirkland, Mary McConnel and Rose Scott Cowen) allows interrogation into the differing representations between those with a transitory knowledge of Indigenous people and those who had a close and more permanent relationship with Indigenous women, even encompassing individual friendship. More pertinently, the book strives to reveal the aspects, largely overlooked in colonial narratives, of Indigenous agency, authority and individuality.

Collecting Ladies

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Publisher : National Library Australia
ISBN 13 : 0642277532
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (422 download)

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Book Synopsis Collecting Ladies by : Penny Olsen

Download or read book Collecting Ladies written by Penny Olsen and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 2013 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around 1870, Ferdinand von Mueller, the greatest Australian botanist of the nineteenth century, began to advertise in several newspapers across Australia for 'lady' plant collectors. This was at a time when women typically had little recourse to science, or contact with men outside their circle of friends, making Mueller's network of ladies quite extraordinary. Collecting Ladies profiles 14 of Mueller's coterie of women collectors. Included are Fanny Charsley, Louisa Atkinson, Annie Walker and Ellis Rowan for whom Mueller made time to assist in pursuit of their own passions. He identified the plants they painted and provided letters of introduction to publishers and scientists. Together, these ladies produced some of the most beautiful books and botanical art to come out of Australia in the nineteenth century, covering all the Australian colonies.

Report of Meeting

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 896 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Book Synopsis Report of Meeting by : ANZAAS (Association)

Download or read book Report of Meeting written by ANZAAS (Association) and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Voices of the Other

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136601007
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)

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Book Synopsis Voices of the Other by : Roderick McGillis

Download or read book Voices of the Other written by Roderick McGillis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a variety of approaches to children's literature from a postcolonial perspective that includes discussions of cultural appropriation, race theory, pedagogy as a colonialist activity, and multiculturalism. The eighteen essays divide into three sections: Theory, Colonialism, Postcolonialism. The first section sets the theoretical framework for postcolonial studies; essays here deal with issues of "otherness" and cultural difference, as well as the colonialist implications of pedagogic practice. These essays confront our relationships with the child and childhood as sites for the exertion of our authority and control. Section 2 presents discussions of the colonialist mind-set in children's and young adult texts from the turn of the century. Here works by writers of animal stories in Canada, the U.S. and Britain, works of early Australian colonialist literature, and Frances Hodgson Burnett's A Little Princess come under the scrutiny of our postmodern reading practices. Section 3 deals directly with contemporary texts for children that manifest both a postcolonial and a neo-colonial content. In this section, the longest in the book, we have studies of children's literature from Canada, Australia, Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States.

The Cambridge History of Australian Literature

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 052188165X
Total Pages : 623 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Book Synopsis The Cambridge History of Australian Literature by : Peter Pierce

Download or read book The Cambridge History of Australian Literature written by Peter Pierce and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-17 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws on scholarship from leading figures in the field and spans Australian literary history from colonial origins, indigenous and migrant literatures, as well as representations of Asia and the Pacific and the role of literary culture in modern Australian society.

Pen Portraits

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Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1742696783
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (426 download)

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Book Synopsis Pen Portraits by : Patricia Clarke

Download or read book Pen Portraits written by Patricia Clarke and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 1988-11-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pen Portraits tells the story of the achievements of Australia's earliest women writers. Despite being confined to a life within the home in a frontier society, some talented (and very determined) women in colonial Australia carved out careers as writers. Among them were writers of popular serials, whose latest instalments were as eagerly awaited as the latest episode is in today's TV 'soapies'; writers of newspaper features and columns; even a foreign correspondent. But it was not until the 1880s that a very few won full-time positions as journalists. For some this was the exciting storming of an all-male preserve, for most it meant the society pages - the 'deadly dreary ruck of long dress reports'. Nevertheless, there was a handful of women who ran the new women's magazines, and in these magazines women writers carried on the fight for the vote, for the right to an education, for freedom to work and freedom from unhappy marriages. Pen Portraits presents these women's worlds, their brave choices and their remarkable lives. Lavishly illustrated, Pen Portraits pays belated tribute to their contribution to colonial life and letters. Patricia Clarke, a journalist for many years and the author of The Governesses and A Colonial Woman, has uncovered the stories of almost a hundred women, from the first woman to publish in Australia to those whose work gained international acclaim; from the writers of moral tales to those whose 'daring' copy brought a raffish touch to the newspapers of the day; from crusading reformers to society ladies who wrote the social notes.

Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society by : Royal Australian Historical Society

Download or read book Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society written by Royal Australian Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Annual report and statement of accounts.

Catalogue of the Parliamentary Library of South Australia

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
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Download or read book Catalogue of the Parliamentary Library of South Australia written by South Australia. Parliamentary Library and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Report of The...meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 876 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Book Synopsis Report of The...meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science by : ANZAAS (Association)

Download or read book Report of The...meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science written by ANZAAS (Association) and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature

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Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191057266
Total Pages : 678 pages
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Book Synopsis The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature by : Daniel Hahn

Download or read book The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature written by Daniel Hahn and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last thirty years have witnessed one of the most fertile periods in the history of children's books: the flowering of imaginative illustration and writing, the Harry Potter phenomenon, the rise of young adult and crossover fiction, and books that tackle extraordinarily difficult subjects. The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature provides an indispensable and fascinating reference guide to the world of children's literature. Its 3,500 entries cover every genre from fairy tales to chapbooks; school stories to science fiction; comics to children's hymns. Originally published in 1983, the Companion has been comprehensively revised and updated by Daniel Hahn. Over 900 new entries bring the book right up to date. A whole generation of new authors and illustrators are showcased, with books like Dogger, The Hunger Games, and Twilight making their first appearance. There are articles on developments such as manga, fan fiction, and non-print publishing, and there is additional information on prizes and prizewinners. This accessible A to Z is the first place to look for information about the authors, illustrators, printers, publishers, educationalists, and others who have influenced the development of children's literature, as well as the stories and characters at their centre. Written both to entertain and to instruct, the highly acclaimed Oxford Companion to Children's Literature is a reference work that no one interested in the world of children's books should be without.

Living with the Locals

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Publisher : National Library of Australia
ISBN 13 : 0642278954
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (422 download)

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Book Synopsis Living with the Locals by : John Maynard

Download or read book Living with the Locals written by John Maynard and published by National Library of Australia. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living with the Locals comprises the stories of 13 white people who were taken in by Indigenous communities of the Torres Strait islands and eastern Australia between the 1790s and the 1870s, for periods from a few months to over 30 years. The shipwreck survivors, convicts and ex-convicts survived only through the Indigenous people's generosity. They assimilated to varying degrees into an Indigenous way of life and, for the most part, both parties mourned the white people's return to European life. The authors bring fresh insight to the stories and re-evaluate the encounters between Indigenous people and the white people who became part of their families.

Report of the ... Meeting

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 880 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Report of the ... Meeting by : ANZAAS (Association)

Download or read book Report of the ... Meeting written by ANZAAS (Association) and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Report of the ... Meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 874 pages
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