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Author : Phillip Thompson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Under the Shade of the Coolibah Tree written by Phillip Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1996* with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dick Diamond
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (55 download)
Download or read book In the Shade of the Coolibah Tree written by Dick Diamond and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jackie French
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
ISBN 13 : 0730493962
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (34 download)
Download or read book A Waltz for Matilda (The Matilda Saga, #1) written by Jackie French and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story behind Banjo Paterson's iconic Australian song. 'Once a jolly swagman camped by a Billabong Under the shade of a Coolibah tree And he sang as he watched and waited till his Billy boiled You'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me...' In 1894, twelve-year-old Matilda flees the city slums to find her unknown father and his farm. But drought grips the land, and the shearers are on strike. Her father has turned swaggie and he's wanted by the troopers. In front of his terrified daughter, he makes a stand against them, defiant to the last. 'You'll never catch me alive, said he...' Set against a backdrop of bushfire, flood, war and jubilation, this is the story of one girl's journey towards independence. It is also the story of others who had no vote and very little but their dreams. Drawing on the well-known poem by A.B. Paterson and from events rooted in actual history, this is the untold story behind Australia's early years as an emerging nation. PRAISE 'Jackie French has a passion for history, and an enviable ability to weave the fascinating minutiae of everyday life into a good story.' -- Magpies Magazine
Author : Melvyn Bragg
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1611450071
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)
Download or read book The Adventure of English written by Melvyn Bragg and published by Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the English language traces its evolution from a Germanic dialect around 500 A.D. to its modern form, noting the influence of such groups and individuals as early Anglo-Saxon tribes, Alfred the Great, and William Shakespeare.
Author : Peter G. Fenner
Publisher : University Press of Amer
ISBN 13 : 9780819143495
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (434 download)
Download or read book Under the Shade of a Coolibah Tree written by Peter G. Fenner and published by University Press of Amer. This book was released on 1984 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : T. Inglis Moore
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520331222
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Poetry in Australia, Volume I written by T. Inglis Moore and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1965.
Author : Juliet Clutton-Brock
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317598385
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)
Download or read book The Walking Larder written by Juliet Clutton-Brock and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is one of a series of more than 20 volumes resulting from the World Archaeological Congress, September 1986, attempting to bring together not only archaeologists and anthropologists from many parts of the world, as well as academics from contingent disciplines, but also non-academics from a wide range of cultural backgrounds. This text looks at human-animal interactions, especially some of the less well known aspects of the field. A number of studies in the book document some of the vast changes humankind has wrought upon the natural environment through the movement of various species of animals around the world. These chapters provide contributions to the understanding of contemporary ecological problems, especially the deforestation taking place to provide grazing for live-stock. The 31 contributions offer a shop-window of approaches, primarily from a biological perspective.
Author : Rex Ellis
Publisher : Boolarong Press
ISBN 13 : 1921920645
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (219 download)
Download or read book Boats in the Desert written by Rex Ellis and published by Boolarong Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nowhere else in the world, except outback Australia, would these boat journeys be possible, and noone else in Australia except Rex Ellis would operate them. When it comes to outback travel, the safari guide makes an art form out of making the seemingly impossible, possible. Not content with running exciting four-wheel safaris to every corner of the outback, and cris-crossing the deserts with his camel expeditions, his desert boat safaris often defy description. ... These are his favourite safaris ... ."--Back cover.
Author : Jonathan King
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 145960301X
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Great Moments in Australian History written by Jonathan King and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great Moments in Australian History presents an exciting collection of stories about the most colourful highlights and heroes of Australia's history. Pioneering a fresh approach, award-winning author Jonathan King dramatises events to bring each moment vividly to life. Dodge Aboriginal spears as we land with early Dutch explorers; creep by night into an open boat with convict Mary Bryant as she escapes from Botany Bay; sneak into Matthew Flinders' French prison cell as he names Australia; break down doors with the redcoats to arrest Governor Bligh; confront 'Wild White Man' William Buckley as he returns from the dead after 30 years; fight for democracy at the Eureka Stockade; join Ned Kelly in his last shoot-out; ride down mountains with the Man from Snowy River; land with the Anzacs at Gallipoli; gallop across deserts with the Light Horse on history's last successful cavalry charge; fly the first plane from the UK to Australia; climb the steps as our first woman enters parliament; join Bradman on the pitch as he makes history; help soldiers stop Japanese troops advancing down the Kokoda Track; throw a boomerang with the first Aboriginal elected to parliament; feel Whitlam's outrage as he is dismissed; watch the angel of the Bali bombing save lives; and escape the nation's worst bushfires in stories that will take your breath away. Filled with graphic images, the book presents the big picture, from the discoveries of the early explorers to the cut and thrust of modern-day politics. In laying bare events that shaped the nation, it highlights vital turning points that marked the end of an era and the start of something new, showing just how dramatically Australia has changed. Sometimes fact is indeed stranger than fiction.
Author : Alfred J. Lopez
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 079148372X
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)
Download or read book Postcolonial Whiteness written by Alfred J. Lopez and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the undertheorized convergence of postcoloniality and whiteness.
Author : Helen Bromhead
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027264007
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Landscape and Culture – Cross-linguistic Perspectives written by Helen Bromhead and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2018-09-07 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between landscape and culture seen through language is an exciting and increasingly explored area. This ground-breaking book contributes to the linguistic examination of both cross-cultural variation and unifying elements in geographical categorization. The study focuses on the contrastive lexical semantics of certain landscape words in a number of languages. The aim is to show how geographical vocabulary sheds light on the culturally and historically shaped ways people see and think about the land around them. Notably, the study presents landscape concepts as anchored in a human-centred perspective, based on our cognition, vision, and experience in places. The Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach allows an analysis of meaning which is both fine-grained and transparent. The book is aimed, first of all, at scholars and students of linguistics. Yet it will also be of interest to researchers in geography, environmental studies, anthropology, cultural studies, Australian Studies, and Australian Aboriginal Studies because of the book’s cultural take.
Author : Karl Hack
Publisher : NUS Press
ISBN 13 : 9971695995
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (716 download)
Download or read book War Memory and the Making of Modern Malaysia and Singapore written by Karl Hack and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Singapore fell to Japan on 15 February 1942. Within days, the Japanese had massacred thousands of Chinese civilians, and taken prisoner more than 100,000 British, Australian and Indian soldiers. A resistance movement formed in Malaya's jungle-covered mountains, but the vast majority could do little other than resign themselves to life under Japanese rule. The Occupation would last three and a half years, until the return of the British in September 1945. How is this period remembered? And how have individuals, communities, and states shaped and reshaped memories in the postwar era? The book response to these questions, presenting answers that use the words of Chinese, Malays, Indians, Eurasians, British and Australians who personally experienced the war years. The authors guide readers through many forms of memory: from the soaring pillars of Singapore's Civilian War Memorial, to traditional Chinese cemeteries in Malaysia; and from families left bereft by Japanese massacres, to the young women who flocked to the Japanese-sponsored Indian National Army, dreaming of a march on Delhi. This volume provides a forum for previously marginalized and self-censored voices, using the stories they relate to reflect on the nature of conflict and memory. They also offer a deeper understanding of the searing transit from wartime occupation to post-war decolonization and the moulding of postcolonial states and identities.
Author : Tony Black
Publisher : Black & White Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1845027272
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (45 download)
Download or read book His Father's Son written by Tony Black and published by Black & White Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-28 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia is the Lucky Country, and Joey Driscol knows it. It's a far cry from his native Ireland, but he believes this is the place he and his wife Shauna can make a new life and forget the troubles of the past. For a time, they do just that, and soon welcome their son Marti into the family. But as the years pass, this new life thousands of miles from the Old Country comes under threat. Joey's wife has been struggling with demons of her own, their marriage is on the rocks and suddenly, Shauna disappears and takes Marti with her. Joey is beside himself, with no clues about where they are, with both his childhood sweetheart and his son - his pride and joy - now missing. Then, when Joey gets word that his wife and son have returned to Ireland, he knows that he'll now have to do the same if he ever wants to see them again. And he also knows that he'll finally have to confront the ghosts of his past that he's been running from for years. His Father's Son is a touching and beautiful story of a family struggling to come to terms with their past, their present and an uncertain future. REVIEWS "A beautiful, powerful tale to move the hardest heart." THE SUN "Black put his heart and soul into this, and the very personal, cathartic nature of the novel makes it a hard one to put down." THE HERALD "The book is set in the late 1970s but the language is a timeless [Irish] brogue that seeps out of the dialogue and internal monologues to colour the narrative emerald green." THE GUARDIAN "Heartfelt and incredibly moving, the sins of the fathers are confronted in a narrative that seethes with raw, blistering emotions." THE DAILY RECORD "This is a tale of father and son, man and wife, and how a journey to be reunited can mean rediscovering part of yourself that was buried long ago - and Black tells it perfectly." SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY "A thought-provoking novel about family and roots ... always compelling and deftly draws the reader into the world of childhood and its life-long impact." THE PRESS & JOURNAL "Beautifully written, threaded through with poignant humour and cross-generational angst, Black gets to the beating heart of what makes families tick and the burdens and baggage they inherit." LANCASHIRE EVENING POST "A moving and evocative tale, a heartfelt examination of the bond between fathers and sons, and about the baggage one generation passes on to the next." DOUG JOHNSTONE, author of Gone Again "Soulful and stunningly written, this reads like a future classic." LISA JEWELL
Author : Stuart Dick
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595209874
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)
Download or read book Outback to Asia written by Stuart Dick and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outback to Asia is the true story of a Vietnam war dissenter (the author) who left a career and home in America in 1972 in search of the truth about communism and Vietnam. The ¡rtrip¡_ begins with lofty ideals and fervent convictions but those values melt in the face of obstacles, temptations, and adventures along the way traversing three continents. The mission to reach the killing fields of Asia leads the author into the depths of dysentery in Mexico, the enchantment of lovely ladies on the Great Barrier Island of New Zealand and the perils of crossing the Outback of Australia in a 1951 Rover touring sedan. Broken and discouraged the author finds hope stranded on an Aboriginal settlement and purpose in a providential meeting in Adelaide, Australia. These adventures set the table for a new level of providential confrontations manifest in the killing fields of Asia in Laos and Bangladesh and the spiritual dominions of Buddhism, Hinduism and Lamaism. The ultimate contest awaits the homecoming prodigal/pilgrim when he is forced to contend with his own spiritual heritage as an American.
Author : Erling Hoh
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 0500771294
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The True History of Tea written by Erling Hoh and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2009-03-24 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively and beautifully illustrated history of one of the world's favorite beverages and its uses through the ages. World-renowned sinologist Victor H. Mair teams up with journalist Erling Hoh to tell the story of this remarkable beverage and its uses, from ancient times to the present, from East to West. For the first time in a popular history of tea, the Chinese, Japanese, Tibetan, and Mongolian annals have been thoroughly consulted and carefully sifted. The resulting narrative takes the reader from the jungles of Southeast Asia to the splendor of the Tang and Song Dynasties, from the tea ceremony politics of medieval Japan to the fabled tea and horse trade of Central Asia and the arrival of the first European vessels in Far Eastern waters. Through the centuries, tea has inspired artists, enhanced religious experience, played a pivotal role in the emergence of world trade, and triggered cataclysmic events that altered the course of humankind. How did green tea become the national beverage of Morocco? And who was the beautiful Emma Hart, immortalized by George Romney in his painting The Tea-maker of Edgware Road? No other drink has touched the daily lives of so many people in so many different ways. The True History of Tea brings these disparate aspects together in an entertaining tale that combines solid scholarship with an eye for the quirky, offbeat paths that tea has strayed upon during its long voyage. It celebrates the common heritage of a beverage we have all come to love, and plays a crucial part in the work of dismantling that obsolete dictum: East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet.
Author : Karl Hack
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134396384
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)
Download or read book Did Singapore Have to Fall? written by Karl Hack and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-11-20 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First time all the factors concerning the Fall of Singapore have been examined in one place Churchill's controversial role in the surrender is also examined
Author : Paul Matthew St Pierre
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773571620
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book A Portrait of the Artist as Australian written by Paul Matthew St Pierre and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2004-09-30 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Portrait of the Artist as Australian offers the first critical assessment of Barry Humphries' entire career - as a daring postmodern deconstructionist on stage, film, and television, with sixty-seven stage shows, twenty-four film and thirty-four video appearances, thirty-four television series and seventy-one television appearances, and seventy-two audio recordings, but especially what he calls his "second career" as author of twenty-nine books. With an oeuvre that includes novels, biographies, autobiographies, editions, compilations, comic books, poetry, dramatic monologues, sketches, film scripts, and several unclassified works, Humphries is a literary and dramatic artist of considerable significance. Arguing that Humphries is one of Australia's greatest writers, Paul Matthew St Pierre reveals a multi-faceted artist whose success is rooted in music halls, Dadaism, and his identity as an Australian.
