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Download or read book Port Arthur written by Margaret Scott and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2006 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The events of April 28, 1996 in Port Arthur left Australia and the world stunned. How as a country do we ever recover, ever come to terms with what happened? How do the people who were there on the day, and those who continue to live and work at Port Arthur, move on from such a horrendous experience? Through the stories of people who were there and those left to pick up the pieces of their lives afterwards, a glimmer of hope emerges, and the possibility of healing and understanding. Writer and local resident Margaret Scott interviewed many of the people who were at Port Arthur on the day as well as local residents and families of the victims. This book contains their stories- simple acts of courage, stories of incredible bravery and inspiring tales of unexpected strength and a determination to remain hopeful in the face of indescribable horror. Honest and confronting but ultimately uplifting, this book should be read by every Australian.
Book Synopsis The Siege and Fall of Port Arthur by : W. Richmond Smith
Download or read book The Siege and Fall of Port Arthur written by W. Richmond Smith and published by London, E. Nash. This book was released on 1905 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Convict-era Port Arthur by : David W. Cameron
Download or read book Convict-era Port Arthur written by David W. Cameron and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detailing the development of the prison and its outlying stations, including its dreaded coal mines and providing an account of the changing views to convict rehabilitation, Convict-era Port Arthur focuses in on a number of individuals, telling the story through their eyes. Charles O'Hara Booth, a significant commandant of Port Arthur; Mark Jeffrey, a convict who became the grave digger on the Island of the Dead; and William Thompson, who arrived just as the new probation system started and who was forced to work in the treacherous coal mines. Convict-era Port Arthur will for the first time provide a comprehensive history of Port Arthur, its horrors and its changing role over a fifty-year period. In gripping detail, using the experiences and words of the convicts, soldiers and administrators who spent time there, David W. Cameron brings to life these deeply miserable days.
Book Synopsis Texaco's Port Arthur Works, a Legacy of Spindletop and Sour Lake by : Elton N. Gish
Download or read book Texaco's Port Arthur Works, a Legacy of Spindletop and Sour Lake written by Elton N. Gish and published by . This book was released on 2003-10 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book details the 100-year history (1903 to 2003) of Texaco's Port Arthur refinery, Port Arthur Terminal, and Port Neches refinery. It contains 408 pages with more than 1200 photographs that show every aspect of running a refinery. Many of them have no"
Book Synopsis Port Arthur, TX by : Early Day-City of Port Arthur Letterheads
Download or read book Port Arthur, TX written by Early Day-City of Port Arthur Letterheads and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Visit Sunny Chernobyl by : Andew Blackwell
Download or read book Visit Sunny Chernobyl written by Andew Blackwell and published by Rodale Books. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most of us, traveling means visiting the most beautiful places on Earth—Paris, the Taj Mahal, the Grand Canyon. It's rare to book a plane ticket to visit the lifeless moonscape of Canada's oil sand strip mines, or to seek out the Chinese city of Linfen, legendary as the most polluted in the world. But in Visit Sunny Chernobyl, Andrew Blackwell embraces a different kind of travel, taking a jaunt through the most gruesomely polluted places on Earth. From the hidden bars and convenience stores of a radioactive wilderness to the sacred but reeking waters of India, Visit Sunny Chernobyl fuses immersive first-person reporting with satire and analysis, making the case that it's time to start appreciating our planet as it is—not as we wish it would be. Irreverent and reflective, the book is a love letter to our biosphere's most tainted, most degraded ecosystems, and a measured consideration of what they mean for us. Equal parts travelogue, expose, environmental memoir, and faux guidebook, Blackwell careens through a rogue's gallery of environmental disaster areas in search of the worst the world has to offer—and approaches a deeper understanding of what's really happening to our planet in the process.
Book Synopsis Betting, Booze, and Brothels by : Wanda A. Landry
Download or read book Betting, Booze, and Brothels written by Wanda A. Landry and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the turn of the twentieth century, Beaumont, Texas had acquired a reputation as a rough place. Situated in the oil-soaked chaos of Spindletop, Jefferson County was a hotbed of vice. For decades, gambling and prostitution thrived as elected officials either looked the other way or took money to keep quiet. That is, until 1960 when a swashbuckling young state legislator blew into town and spearheaded an intensive investigation into the rampant vice and governmental corruption that supported it. And, at a time when such things were virtually unheard of, he and his committee played it out on live television. When the dust finally cleared, the local governments of Jefferson County were turned inside out.
Book Synopsis The Ports of Port Arthur, Beaumont, and Orange, Texas by : Water Resources Support Center (U.S.)
Download or read book The Ports of Port Arthur, Beaumont, and Orange, Texas written by Water Resources Support Center (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis After Port Arthur by : Carol Altmann
Download or read book After Port Arthur written by Carol Altmann and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A decade on, journalist Carol Altmann looks at how the people, the place, the killer, and the whole country has changed since the horrific massacre at one of Australia's most infamous historic landmarks.
Book Synopsis Ports of Port Arthur, Beaumont, and Orange, Texas by :
Download or read book Ports of Port Arthur, Beaumont, and Orange, Texas written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ports on the Gulf Coast of the United States: Port Arthur, Tex., Orange, Tex., Port Isabel, Tex., Beaumont, Tex., Freeport, Tex., Brownsville, Tex by : United States. Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors
Download or read book Ports on the Gulf Coast of the United States: Port Arthur, Tex., Orange, Tex., Port Isabel, Tex., Beaumont, Tex., Freeport, Tex., Brownsville, Tex written by United States. Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Ports of Port Arthur, Beaumont and Orange, Texas by : United States. Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors
Download or read book The Ports of Port Arthur, Beaumont and Orange, Texas written by United States. Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Recovering Convict Lives by : Richard Tuffin
Download or read book Recovering Convict Lives written by Richard Tuffin and published by . This book was released on 2021-11 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World Heritage-listed Port Arthur penitentiary is one of Australia's most visited historical sites, attracting over 400,000 visitors each year. Designed to incarcerate 480 men, between 1856 and 1877 thousands of convicts passed through it. In 2016, archaeologists began one of the largest ever excavations of an Australian convict site. Recovering Convict Lives: Historical Archaeology of the Port Arthur Penitentiary makes their findings available to general readers for the first time. Extensively illustrated, it is a fascinating journey into the inner workings of the penal system and the day-to-day lives of Port Arthur convicts. Through the things they left behind - the sandstone base of a prison wall, a clay pipe discarded in a washroom, gambling tokens dropped between floorboards - this book tells their stories. Praise for Recovering Convict Lives 'In this richly illustrated volume readers will be taken on an archaeological tour of a lost world of work, leisure and punishment. A forensic reconstruction of one of Australia's most iconic buildings, Recovering Convict Lives peels away the layers of time to reveal the hidden history of everyday life in a penal station.' - Professor Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, author of Closing Hell's Gates
Book Synopsis The Truth about Port Arthur by : E. K. Nozhin
Download or read book The Truth about Port Arthur written by E. K. Nozhin and published by London, J. Murray. This book was released on 1908 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Human Bullets by : Tadayoshi Sakurai
Download or read book Human Bullets written by Tadayoshi Sakurai and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Quintus Servinton written by Henry Savery and published by Sydney University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia's convict past is never far away in Tasmania, where elegant stone bridges, the Georgian warehouses of Salamanca Place and the eerie ruins of Port Arthur are testimony to the back-breaking work and the hard lives endured by those sentenced to transportation. Quintus Servinton is another reminder of those cruel days. Subtitled "a tale, founded on incidents of real occurrence," the book is a loosely autobiographical story of a wayward fifth son, like Savery. Quintus Servinton (1830) is credited as being the first Australian novel, which, despite its dubious literary merit, gives it unique status. Henry Savery was born in 1791 in Somerset. He arrived in Hobart in 1825, having been sentenced to transportation for forgery. He might be completely unknown today had he not had a penchant for writing. Savery was released from servitude in 1832, having already published his major work. At Port Arthur, guides tell the story that he then sent for his wife, but she had an affair with a magistrate on the boat out, and returned to England, having been rejected by her husband. Savery was entrusted with banking work and tempted to re-offend. He appeared before the magistrate who had seduced his wife and was sent to the notorious penal settlement, Port Arthur, where he died in 1842.
Book Synopsis Visitor Guide by : Port Arthur Historic Site Management Authority (Tas.)
Download or read book Visitor Guide written by Port Arthur Historic Site Management Authority (Tas.) and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
