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Author : Andrew McMillan
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ISBN 13 : 9780340549629
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (496 download)
Download or read book Catalina Dreaming Aust written by Andrew McMillan and published by . This book was released on 1994-12-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew McMillan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Catalina Dreaming written by Andrew McMillan and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a personal history of the RAAF Catalina Flying boats based in Cairns, Karumba, Darwin and Melville Bay during World War II, and the men who flew and looked after them. This is the story of men from southern Australia trhrown into a hostile landscape, and their confrontations with tropical conditions, Aboriginal tribesmen, Yanks, air raids on Darwin, boredomand terror, sharks and of course the Japanese. Andrew McMillan has visited the bases, consulted the archives, and talked to many of the men involved.
Author : Peter Mirtschin
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN 13 : 064310674X
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)
Download or read book Australia's Dangerous Snakes written by Peter Mirtschin and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2017-11 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia’s venomous snakes are widely viewed as the world’s most deadly and are regarded with cautious curiosity, fascination and, regrettably, fear. Australia’s Dangerous Snakes examines the biology, natural history, venom properties and bite treatment of medically important venomous marine and terrestrial snakes. It contains comprehensive identification profiles for each species, supported by keys and photographs. In addition to their medical importance, the environmental roles of these snakes and the threats that are causing the decline of many of these reptiles are discussed. Drawing on the authors’ experience in the fields of herpetology, toxinology and clinical medicine, this book stimulates respect and admiration and dispels fear of Australia’s fascinating snakes. Australia’s Dangerous Snakes will provide hours of rewarding reading and valuable information for anyone interested in Australia’s unique wildlife and natural history, and will be an essential reference for herpetologists, toxinologists, physicians, zoo personnel and private snake collectors.
Author : Noah Riseman
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803246161
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Defending Whose Country? written by Noah Riseman and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the campaign against Japan in the Pacific during the Second World War, the armed forces of the United States, Australia, and the Australian colonies of Papua and New Guinea made use of indigenous peoples in new capacities. The United States had long used American Indians as soldiers and scouts in frontier conflicts and in wars with other nations. With the advent of the Navajo Code Talkers in the Pacific theater, Native servicemen were now being employed for contributions that were unique to their Native cultures. In contrast, Australia, Papua, and New Guinea had long attempted to keep indigenous peoples out of the armed forces altogether. With the threat of Japanese invasion, however, they began to bring indigenous peoples into the military as guerilla patrollers, coastwatchers, and regular soldiers. Defending Whose Country? is a comparative study of the military participation of Papua New Guineans, Yolngu, and Navajos in the Pacific War. In examining the decisions of state and military leaders to bring indigenous peoples into military service, as well as the decisions of indigenous individuals to serve in the armed forces, Noah Riseman reconsiders the impact of the largely forgotten contributions of indigenous soldiers in the Second World War.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Australian Defence Force Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Amanda Barry
Publisher : UoM Custom Book Centre
ISBN 13 : 0980759404
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (87 download)
Download or read book Evangelists of Empire? written by Amanda Barry and published by UoM Custom Book Centre. This book was released on 2008 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utilising a range of source material and a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches, this ground-breaking collection offers the reader new ways of assessing the uneven paths of mission endeavours, and examines the ways in which Indigenous peoples responded to -- and took ownership of -- aspects of Christian and Western culture and spirituality.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Australian Book Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ian W. Shaw
Publisher : Macmillan Publishers Aus.
ISBN 13 : 1743517939
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (435 download)
Download or read book The Ghosts of Roebuck Bay written by Ian W. Shaw and published by Macmillan Publishers Aus.. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Japanese attack on Broome is the second most deadly air raid on Australia soil in our history and yet it's almost entirely overlooked. On 3 March 1942, nine Japanese Zero planes strafed the small town planning to destroy the aerodrome and American planes. With no notice, the townsfolk could only put up minimal opposition and in an attack that lasted only an hour, almost one hundred men, women and children lost their lives. Not a single operational aircraft remained in Broome, but the shocking loss of human life can never be truly calculated. The Ghosts of Roebuck Bay tells the story of this tragedy, shining light on a story that has slipped through the cracks of history. A captivating tale of refugees and soldiers, of reputations made and lost, of survival and spirit that resonates to today.
Author : Robert Neville Alford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780987151988
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (519 download)
Download or read book A Mystery Unsolved... the Loss of Catalina A24-49 written by Robert Neville Alford and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Towards the end of WWII, in 1944, a heavily loaded RAAF Catalina flying boat, A24-49, launched from northern Australia for a seemingly routine mission over enemy territory in the Dutch East Indies. The aircraft, with ten crew onboard, vanished without a trace. For family members of those crewmen, this remains an enduring mystery. This book has been largely written and researched by historian Bob Alford, at the instigation of the nephew of the missing Catalina pilot, Tony Morgan. The book includes a thorough background on RAAF Catalina operations during WWII.
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Publisher : D. W. Thorpe
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 840 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Who's who of Australian Writers written by and published by D. W. Thorpe. This book was released on 1995 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kevin Starr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780195168976
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (689 download)
Download or read book Embattled Dreams written by Kevin Starr and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume deals with the years of World War II and after. In the 1940s California changed from a regional centre into the dominant economic, social and cultural force it has been in America ever since.
Author : Mark Staniforth
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Maritime Archaeology in Australia written by Mark Staniforth and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : I M Flippy
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (545 download)
Download or read book Chasing Chad written by I M Flippy and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's time for pedicabby extraordinaire, Andy Molina, to find his man. For the couple of years he's lived on Catalina Island, Andy has been happy not to get tied down to any guy...or to any plan for his future. But eventually, chickens will come home to roost. Especially if one of the chickens is a father with high expectations for his son.Because while Andy's been living the life of a laid back beach bum pedi-cab driver, there's more to him than meets the eye. There's also more to Chad, the buff blond snorkeling guide who Andy's been keeping an eye on lately. After a couple of mucked up first impressions, it's easy for Andy to dismiss Chad as just another island himbo, and for Chad to dismiss Andy as kind of a jerk. But even if these two discover the specialness in each other, could Andy's question mark of a future tear them apart all over again?Find out in the fourth book of the Catalina Dreams series!
Author : Patrick Moser
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252056787
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Waikiki Dreams written by Patrick Moser and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2024-06-11 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite a genuine admiration for Native Hawaiian culture, white Californians of the 1930s ignored authentic relationships with Native Hawaiians. Surfing became a central part of what emerged instead: a beach culture of dressing, dancing, and acting like an Indigenous people whites idealized. Patrick Moser uses surfing to open a door on the cultural appropriation practiced by Depression-era Californians against a backdrop of settler colonialism and white nationalism. Recreating the imagined leisure and romance of life in Waikīkī attracted people buffeted by economic crisis and dislocation. California-manufactured objects like surfboards became a physical manifestation of a dream that, for all its charms, emerged from a white impulse to both remove and replace Indigenous peoples. Moser traces the rise of beach culture through the lives of trendsetters Tom Blake, John “Doc” Ball, Preston “Pete” Peterson, Mary Ann Hawkins, and Lorrin “Whitey” Harrison while also delving into California’s control over images of Native Hawaiians via movies, tourism, and the surfboard industry. Compelling and innovative, Waikīkī Dreams opens up the origins of a defining California subculture.
Author : Kevin Starr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199923264
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)
Download or read book Inventing the Dream written by Kevin Starr and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1986-12-04 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second volume in Kevin Starr's passionate and ambitious cultural history of the Golden State focuses on the turn-of-the-century years and the emergence of Southern California as a regional culture in its own right. "How hauntingly beautiful, how replete with lost possibilities, seems that Southern California of two and three generations ago, now that a dramatically diferent society has emerged in its place," writes Starr. As he recreates the "lost California," Starr examines the rich variety of elements that figured in the growth of the Southern California way of life: the Spanish/Mexican roots, the fertile land, the Mediterranean-like climate, the special styles in architecture, the rise of Hollywood. He gives us a broad array of engaging (and often eccentric) characters: from Harrision Gray Otis to Helen Hunt Jackson to Cecil B. DeMille. Whether discussing the growth of winemaking or the burgeoning of reform movements, Starr keeps his central theme in sharp focus: how Californians defined their identity to themselves and to the nation.
Author : Kevin Starr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199924309
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)
Download or read book Golden Dreams written by Kevin Starr and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-09 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A narrative tour de force that combines wide-ranging scholarship with captivating prose, Kevin Starr's acclaimed multi-volume Americans and the California Dream is an unparalleled work of cultural history. In this volume, Starr covers the crucial postwar period--1950 to 1963--when the California we know today first burst into prominence. Starr brilliantly illuminates the dominant economic, social, and cultural forces in California in these pivotal years. In a powerful blend of telling events, colorful personalities, and insightful analyses, Starr examines such issues as the overnight creation of the postwar California suburb, the rise of Los Angeles as Super City, the reluctant emergence of San Diego as one of the largest cities in the nation, and the decline of political centrism. He explores the Silent Generation and the emergent Boomer youth cult, the Beats and the Hollywood "Rat Pack," the pervasive influence of Zen Buddhism and other Asian traditions in art and design, the rise of the University of California and the emergence of California itself as a utopia of higher education, the cooling of West Coast jazz, freeway and water projects of heroic magnitude, outdoor life and the beginnings of the environmental movement. More broadly, he shows how California not only became the most populous state in the Union, but in fact evolved into a mega-state en route to becoming the global commonwealth it is today. Golden Dreams continues an epic series that has been widely recognized for its signal contribution to the history of American culture in California. It is a book that transcends its stated subject to offer a wealth of insight into the growth of the Sun Belt and the West and indeed the dramatic transformation of America itself in these pivotal years following the Second World War.
Author : Nicolas Rothwell
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1459605748
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The Red Highway written by Nicolas Rothwell and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicolas Rothwell embarks on an inner journey while travelling through an amazing part of the world. After a spell reporting the Iraq War, Rothwell returns to Australia's north. Drifting and displaced, he starts to explore the deserts and towns of the north.
