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Author : Cecil Thomas Madigan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Crossing the Dead Heart, by C. T. Madigan written by Cecil Thomas Madigan and published by . This book was released on with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : C.T. Madigan
Publisher : ETT Imprint
ISBN 13 : 1923024078
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Crossing the Dead Heart written by C.T. Madigan and published by ETT Imprint. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a classic narrative of modern exploration; a story of adventure, enterprise and patient scientific exploration, illustrated by photographs taken on the expedition. The Simpson is a sand-ridge desert extending 200 miles (322 km) west to east, the ridges running parallel from north to south at roughly quarter-mile (0.4 km) intervals, some reaching as high as 100 feet (30 m). Madigan planned a ground crossing in the winter of 1939. A party of nine, including a biologist, a botanist, a photographer and a radio operator, with nineteen camels, made the exhausting crossing from Andado station in the Northern Territory to Birdsville in twenty-five days. It verified Madigan's previous conclusions that the area was a wasteland. This last classic Australian exploration adventure pioneered the use of mobile radio communication; national broadcasts were made through the Australian Broadcasting Commission from desert camps. The scientific results were published and also a popular accound, Crossing the Dead Heart (Melbourne, 1946). He saw the 'Dead Heart' as a land of everlasting sand-ridges and salt-encrusted clay-pans; while his conclusions seemed correct then, within twenty years the area was criss-crossed by petroleum explorers. - Australian Dictionary of Biography
Author : Cecil Thomas Madigan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (388 download)
Download or read book Crossing the Dead Heart written by Cecil Thomas Madigan and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cecil Thomas Madigan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781876247034
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Crossing the Dead Heart written by Cecil Thomas Madigan and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true story of one of the epic adventures of desert exploration. In 1939 Dr. Cecil Madigan led his party of nine men and nineteen camels into the trackless and waterless Simpson Desert on an exciting mission never before attempted. This is a great Australian story of enterprise, scientific investigation, determination and human courage.
Author : Cecil Madigan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781923024069
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Crossing the Dead Heart written by Cecil Madigan and published by . This book was released on 2023-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Walter Gregory
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Dead Heart of Australia written by John Walter Gregory and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Scott
Publisher : Balboa Press
ISBN 13 : 1504310543
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Blood Tears of the Dead Heart written by David Scott and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2017-10-20 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The body of a man with a crushed skull is found in outback Australia. Discovered hidden nearby is a letter containing cryptic clues to the location of a massive gold find in the unchartered Dead Heart of Australia. Greedy rumours fly, when a wife arrives to collect her dead husbands belongings. Not only is the not-entirely-bereaved widow out for a take, but also local authorities find themselves overrun by those willing to kill for a chance to find the gold. Speaking of killing, who bashed in the victims skull? Obese Sergeant Gillings is on the case with the help of his officers and trackers. The roguish Bob and his lover, Chaenee, are on the hunt as well. Australian Aborigines in the Dead Heart are on a rampage because strangers enter their forbidden territory. These gold-hungry adventurers have to fight each other, wild natives, and the unforgiving terrain itself on the perilous path to striking it rich.
Author : Elizabeth Bowen
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 1984899988
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)
Download or read book The Death of the Heart written by Elizabeth Bowen and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2019-06-05 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Death of the Heart is perhaps Elizabeth Bowen's best-known book. As she deftly and delicately exposes the cruelty that lurks behind the polished surfaces of conventional society, Bowen reveals herself as a masterful novelist who combines a sense of humor with a devastating gift for divining human motivations. In this piercing story of innocence betrayed set in the thirties, the orphaned Portia is stranded in the sophisticated and politely treacherous world of her wealthy half-brother's home in London.There she encounters the attractive, carefree cad Eddie. To him, Portia is at once child and woman, and her fears her gushing love. To her, Eddie is the only reason to be alive. But when Eddie follows Portia to a sea-side resort, the flash of a cigarette lighter in a darkened cinema illuminates a stunning romantic betrayal--and sets in motion one of the most moving and desperate flights of the heart in modern literature.
Author : Charles Gibbon (Novelist.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.V/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Dead Heart: a Tale of the Bastille written by Charles Gibbon (Novelist.) and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Charles Gibbon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Dead Heart: a Tale of the Bastille. [Founded Upon Watts Phillips' Adelphi Drama.] written by Charles Gibbon and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip Jones
Publisher : Wakefield Press
ISBN 13 : 1862548722
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (625 download)
Download or read book Australia's Muslim Cameleers written by Philip Jones and published by Wakefield Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1870 and 1920 as many as 2000 cameleers and 20,000 camels arrived in Australia from Afghanistan and northern India. Australia's Muslim Cameleers is a rich pictorial history of these men, their way of life and the vital role they played in pioneering transport and communication routes across outback Australia's vast expanses. Many of the images and artefacts in this fascinating account are published here for the first time, and this new edition contains additions to the biographical listing of more than 1200 cameleers.
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Author : Judy Robinson
Publisher : Boolarong Press
ISBN 13 : 1922109266
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (221 download)
Download or read book Bushman of the Red Heart written by Judy Robinson and published by Boolarong Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anne S. Troelstra
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004343784
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Bibliography of Natural History Travel Narratives written by Anne S. Troelstra and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anne Troelstra’s fine bibliography is an outstanding and ground-breaking work. He has provided the academic world with a long-needed bibliographical record of human endeavour in the field of the natural sciences. The travel narratives listed here encompass all aspects of the natural world in every part of the globe, but are especially concerned with its fauna, flora and fossil remains. Such eyewitness accounts have always fascinated their readers, but they were never written solely for entertainment: fragmentary though they often are, these narratives of travel and exploration are of immense importance for our scientific understanding of life on earth, providing us with a window on an ever changing, and often vanishing, natural world. Without such records of the past we could not track, document or understand the significance of changes that are so important for the study of zoogeography. With this book Troelstra gives us a superb overview of natural history travel narratives. The well over four thousand detailed entries, ranging over four centuries and all major western European languages, are drawn from a wide range of sources and include both printed books and periodical contributions. While no subject bibliography by a single author can attain absolute completeness, Troelstra’s work is comprehensive to a truly remarkable degree. The entries are arranged alphabetically by author and chronologically, by the year of first publication, under the author’s name. A brief biography, with the scope and range of their work, is given for each author; every title is set in context, the contents – including illustrations – are described and all known editions and translations are cited. In addition, there is a geographical index that cross refers between authors and the regions visited, and a full list of the bibliographical and biographical sources used in compiling the bibliography.
Author : Paul Longley Arthur
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 0857284088
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (572 download)
Download or read book Virtual Voyages written by Paul Longley Arthur and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Virtual Voyages' is a fascinating account of the European discovery of the elusive 'great south land' told through the literature of 'imaginary voyages'. Written at the height of the era of European maritime exploration, these bizarre and captivating tales, with their wildly imaginative visions of antipodean inversion and strangeness, reveal a hidden history of attitudes to colonization. By exposing the relationship between myth and reality in the antipodes, this book casts new light on the power of fiction to influence history. In the post-colonial studies field, books about travel writing and empire have tended to focus on the high period of nineteenth-century imperialism and on the colonial settings of Africa and India. This book offers a fresh perspective by focussing on the eighteenth century, and referring to the geographical region of Australia and the Pacific, which has had far less attention. The book also breaks new ground by being the first to approach the genre of the imaginary voyage from a post-colonial perspective. In addition to the new insights into European colonialism that it offers, the book illustrates many broader themes in eighteenth-century history and thought. These include connections between the rise of science and modern imperialism, the development of narrative history and fiction and the influence of romanticism, the evolution of the early novel in Britain and France, and the role of mythology in the development of national identity.
Author : CA. Cranston
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042022183
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book The Littoral Zone written by CA. Cranston and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2007 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this, the first collection of ecocritical essays devoted to Australian contexts and their writers, Australian and USA scholars (settlers, invaders, temporary visa holders) comment on the transliteration of sea, land and interior through the works of major and minor authors and through their own experience with the bioregion. The littoral zone is the starting point in this fresh approach to reading literature and is organised around the natural environment - rainforest, desert, mountains, coast, islands, Antarctica. There's the beach where sexual and spiritual crises occur; the Wheatbelt area - the most visible clearance line on the planet; desert literature, camel trekking, and the transformation of a salt flat into an inland island. New Age literature that 'appropriates' Aboriginals and their cultures as the healing poultice for an ailing and dispirited West; a re-examination of pastoralism, and "the feet of millions of sheep . that] have done unspeakable damage to soils"; an inquiry into whether Judith Wright's work can "persuade us to rejoice" in the world; an investigation of the Limestone Plains, home of the bush capital and the bogong moth; of bananas, cane toads and the Great Barrier Reef in tropic Queensland; of national parks and guesthouses where "the mountains meet the sea"; a discursive approach to temperate islands that covers sealing, Soldier Settlement, and sea country pastoral; and finally to Antarctica, where an initial utopian approach gives way to an emphasis on its stark, 'timeless' icescape as a minimalist backdrop for human dramas. The author-terrain is no less grand in its scope: poets, playwrights, novelists, and non-fiction writers are discussed across the broad range of contexts that constitutes the littoral zone known as 'Australia'.
Author : Mark Byrne
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443816531
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book The Outback Within written by Mark Byrne and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-23 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is it about the Australian outback? For nearly two centuries, narratives of outback journeys have been suffused with the aura of death. Why? It is not just that the desert is big, dry, hot and apparently empty. The outback is Australia’s “mythological crucible,” and journeys there have become rites of passage. It is where settler Australians go to die and perhaps be reborn. This book explores the landscape of this evolving national mythology. It argues that a more conscious engagement with the process of symbolic death and rebirth is needed for Australians to enter into a deeper understanding of themselves and their relationship to the land and its Indigenous people.
