Arnie Pearls And Luggers In The Torres Strait

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Arnie: Pearls and Luggers in the Torres Strait

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Author : Arnie Duffield
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1664105204
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (641 download)

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Download or read book Arnie: Pearls and Luggers in the Torres Strait written by Arnie Duffield and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-06-07 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of Arnie Duffield, who arrived at Thursday Island, in Torres Strait, the Northern tip of Australia, aged ten, in 1936 - beginning a life-time of adventure. His father worked on the famous sailing luggers, diving boats that harvested pearl shells and pearls for over 100 years up to 1980. Arnie with his father and brother, with their own hands would build their own flotilla of luggers, to operate as a family company over eventful decades: seeing the Great Depression, war and the immediate threat of invasion, a post-war boom in the region, the loss of divers and constant striving for safety at sea, failures of an industry, mounting threats to the environment. For ten years he managed an innovative project cultivating pearls for jewellery, a change from selling shells, the `mother of pearl' used for buttons and ornamentation. The tropical life provided excitement, stimulus, dangers; material for yarns, about crocodiles or sharks, drunks, bad weather at sea, a near-drowning, a mercy dash in a fast boat to save a downed pilot, and a few close shaves on bush air-strips. Arnie became a leading personality in this world, a humourist and practitioner of the wisecrack, always quick with a come-back. From childhood days observing the hectic life of the far-away little port at Thursday Island, Waiben under its traditional name; then working as a young man, repairing warships, and operating the family-owned boats, he became, he would proudly state, a master mariner and proficient ship engineer. He would revel in the island life, enjoying great freedom, getting successes and hard blows; in private life, marrying, starting a family, experiencing the stresses and joys. At 95 he is known as the “last man standing” from days when the fleet would depart under sail.

The New Australia

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Author : Norman Lindsay
Publisher : Angus & Robertson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Australia written by Norman Lindsay and published by Angus & Robertson. This book was released on 1972 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Defending Country

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Author : Noah Riseman
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN 13 : 0702257125
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Defending Country written by Noah Riseman and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of Aboriginal servicemen and women has only recently been brought to the forefront of conversation about Australia’s war history. This important book makes a key contribution to recording the role played by Indigenous Australians in our recent military history. Written by two respected historians and based on a substantial number of interviews with Indigenous war veterans who have hitherto been without a voice, it combines the best of social and military history in one book. This will be the first book to focus on this previously neglected part of Australian social history.

Return to Uluru

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Author : Mark McKenna
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593185781
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (931 download)

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Download or read book Return to Uluru written by Mark McKenna and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-08-09 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Return to Uluru explores the cold case that strikes at the heart of Australia’s white supremacy—the death of an Aboriginal man in 1934; the iconic life of a white, "outback" police officer; and the continent's most sacred and mysterious landmark. Inside Cardboard Box 39 at the South Australian Museum’s storage facility lies the forgotten skull of an Aboriginal man who died eighty-five years before. His misspelled name is etched on the crown, but the many bones in boxes around him remain unidentified. Who was Yokununna, and how did he die? His story reveals the layered, exploitative white Australian mindset that has long rendered Aboriginal reality all but invisible. When policeman Bill McKinnon’s Aboriginal prisoners escape in 1934, he’s determined to get them back. Tracking them across the so called "dead heart" of the country, he finds the men at Uluru, a sacred rock formation. What exactly happened there remained a mystery, even after a Commonwealth inquiry. But Mark McKenna’s research uncovers new evidence, getting closer to the truth, revealing glimpses of indigenous life, and demonstrating the importance of this case today. Using McKinnon’s private journal entries, McKenna paints a picture of the police officer's life to better understand how white Australians treat the center of the country and its inhabitants. Return to Uluru dives deeply into one cold case. But it also provides a searing indictment of the historical white supremacy still present in Australia—and has fascinating, illuminating parallels to the growing racial justice movements in the United States.

The Book of the Pearl

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Author : George Frederick Kunz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 828 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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The Book of the Pearl; The History, Art, Science, and Industry of the Queen of Gems

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Author : George Frederick Kunz
Publisher : Franklin Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780342432059
Total Pages : 822 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book The Book of the Pearl; The History, Art, Science, and Industry of the Queen of Gems written by George Frederick Kunz and published by Franklin Classics. This book was released on 2018-10-11 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Dance Hall & Picture Palace

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Author : Jill Julius Matthews
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Dance Hall & Picture Palace written by Jill Julius Matthews and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book paints Sydney between the depressions of the 1890s and the 1930s as a prosperous city riding an international wave of modernism. In the pub, parlour and pulpit, people clashed over the significance of moving pictures, jazz, new dance crazes, the radio, gramophone records and cheap magazines. Conventional accounts of the Australian film industry at the beginning of the twentieth century focus on the impact of Hollywood on local production. But in this vibrant history, the author shows how moving pictures captured the imagination of Sydneys people and transformed how they thought about the world. Jill Julius Matthews describes how in Sydney, as elsewhere, young flappers came to embody both glamour and decadence in modern city life. She uncovers entrepreneurs bribing politicians as they aggressively pursued profits for their American patrons and reveals the innovative marketing techniques that provoked cultural elites to deplore commercialisation.

Multi-Domain Battle in the Southwest Pacific Theater of World War II

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Author : Combat Studies Institute Press
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781086087291
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book Multi-Domain Battle in the Southwest Pacific Theater of World War II written by Combat Studies Institute Press and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-29 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Multi-Domain Battle in the Southwest Pacific Theater of World War II" provides a historical account of how US forces used synchronized operations in the air, maritime, information, and land domains to defeat the Japanese Empire. This work offers a historical case that illuminates current thinking about future campaigns in which coordination among all domains will be critical for success.

Eddie Koiki Mabo

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Author : Noel Loos
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN 13 : 0702251607
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Eddie Koiki Mabo written by Noel Loos and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'He was in the best sense a fighter for equal rights, a rebel, a free-thinker, a restless spirit, a reformer who saw far into the future and far into the past.' Dr Bryan Keon-Cohen, plaintiffs' barrister in the Mabo litigation Here, largely in his own words, is the incredible story of Edward Koiki Mabo, from his childhood on the Island of Mer through to his struggle within the union cause and the black rights movement. Tragically, Mabo died just months before the historic High Court native-title decision that destroyed forever the concept of terra nullius. Originally published by UQP in 1996, this new edition has been updated by Mabo's long-time friend historian Noel Loos. New photographs and a preface by esteemed film director Rachel Perkins give this book the new life it deserves.

Stewart's Hand Book of the Pacific Islands

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Author : Percy Stafford Allen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stewart's Hand Book of the Pacific Islands written by Percy Stafford Allen and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Maritime Archaeology

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Author : Mark Staniforth
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387261087
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book Maritime Archaeology written by Mark Staniforth and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-11-04 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subject areas discussed in this book include shipwrecks and abandoned vessels, underwater site formation processes, maritime infrastructure and industries such as whaling, submerged aircraft and Australian Indigenous sites underwater. The application of National and State legislation and management regimes to these underwater cultural heritage sites is also highlighted. The contributors of this piece have set the standard for the practice in Australia from which others can learn.

Triumph in the Tropics

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Author : Raphael West Cilento
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Triumph in the Tropics written by Raphael West Cilento and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: P.101-104; Early missionary activities in Queensland; p.114; Poisoning of flour left to be stolen by Aborigines; p.151; Details of white men who have lived with natives; p.117; Account of the Aborigines - ecology, food - gathering economy, inventive ability; Early references to natives; Contact and conflict; Black War - Bunya festival described; Reasons for attacks from 1842 onwards; Specific incidents described; Native Mounted Police Force; Mestons report; p.188-9; Islanders of Torres Straits - early contacts; p.189; Government policy on Aborigines; Laws.

Broken

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Author : Anna Shnukal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Broken written by Anna Shnukal and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best friends tell you everything; about their kitchen renovation; about their little girl's new school. They tell you how he's leaving her for a younger model. Best friends don't tell lies. They don't take up residence on your couch for weeks. They don't call lawyers. They don't make you choose sides. Best friends don't keep secrets about their past. Best friends don't always stay best friends.

Historical Encyclopedia of Western Australia

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Author : Jenny Gregory
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781921401152
Total Pages : 1015 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (11 download)

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Lying for the Admiralty

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Author : Margaret Cameron-Ash
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780648043966
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book Lying for the Admiralty written by Margaret Cameron-Ash and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Admiralty sends Cook to observe the transit of Venus he is also told to find new territories for Britain and to take steps secretly to get in ahead of the French.

Jandai Language Dictionary

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ISBN 13 : 9780987096609
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (966 download)

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Download or read book Jandai Language Dictionary written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a dictionary of language spoken on Stradbroke and Moreton islands based on words remembered by all Elders and recorded by interested visitors to our shores.

Radar Yarns

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Author : Ed Simmonds
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780646038278
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book Radar Yarns written by Ed Simmonds and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: