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Robert Forrester, First Fleeter

Author : Louise Wilson
Publisher : L. Wilson
ISBN 13 : 9780980447828
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (478 download)

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Download or read book Robert Forrester, First Fleeter written by Louise Wilson and published by L. Wilson. This book was released on 2009-01 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sydney's early history abounds with tales of men and women behaving badly. Robert Forrester, who arrived in Sydney Harbour aboard the First Fleet vessel 'Scarborough' on 26 January 1788, at first glance was just another ne'er-do-well. He was caught up in a 'scam' in London. He was charged with drunkenness and insolence in Sydney. He was the first man in Australia who appeared before a court enquiry into the murder of an Aborigine. His legal wife, and then his second 'common law' wife, disappeared from the records. Yet determined detective work, recreating his adult life, has revealed that Robert Forrester might even have been 'a decent bloke'.

A First Fleet Family

Author : Louis Becke
Publisher : Copp, Clark
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A First Fleet Family written by Louis Becke and published by Copp, Clark. This book was released on 1896 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sentenced to Debt

Author : Louise Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780980447866
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (478 download)

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Download or read book Sentenced to Debt written by Louise Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Robert Forrester moved to London in the early 1780s, he was a 'nobody' in terms of documented history. A judgment at the Old Bailey in 1783 turned him into a 'somebody'.Along with hundreds of other men and women whose homeland did not want them and forcibly expelled them, in 1787 he was loaded aboard one of the First Fleet ships bound for the far side of the world. They anchored in Sydney Cove on 26 January 1788. An astonishing new chapter opened in the long story of an ancient continent.In 1791 a small group of selected convicts allowed to become the first 'new Australians' included Robert Forrester. He'd escaped his death sentence but his land grant in the Hawkesbury's 'valley of floods' quickly sentenced him to debt. Interactions with the 'First Australians', the custodians of his land for 60,000 years, earned him and his partner Isabella Ramsay a permanent place in Australian history. Be transported, not like Robert on a convict ship, but by this engrossing true story of a resilient if inadvertent founder of modern Australia.

Paul Bushell

Author : Louise Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780980447835
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (478 download)

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Download or read book Paul Bushell written by Louise Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Transported in 1790 with the hellish Second Fleet, the worst of all the convict shipments to Australia, Paul Bushell triumphed and created his own piece of paradise on earth. Vigorous, independent, generous-spirited, community-minded, principled and hard-working, he championed the rights of others and prospered himself. His ecumenical views and his respect for women's rights were ahead of his time. He died in 1853 during the gold rush era, his life story encapsulating the first major phase of the modern history of Australia."--Back cover.

Southwark Luck

Author : Louise Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780980447842
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (478 download)

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Download or read book Southwark Luck written by Louise Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louise Wilson's third book about early convict settlers of NSW includes biographies, genealogy & local history for the Martin family of the Hawkesbury. The Martin children spread to the Sydney Metropolitan area, throughout NSW and to the Darling Downs and Maranoa Districts of Queensland.

Convict Life in New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land

Author : Charles White
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Convict Life in New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land written by Charles White and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Last of Her Kind

Author : Sigrid Nunez
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429944978
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Last of Her Kind written by Sigrid Nunez and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2006-12-12 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The paths of two women from different walks of life intersect amid counterculture of the 1960s in this haunting and provocative novel from the National Book Award-winning author of The Friend Named a Best Book of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle and the Christian Science Monitor Sigrid Nunez's The Last of Her Kind introduces two women who meet as freshmen on the Columbia campus in 1968. Georgette George does not know what to make of her brilliant, idealistic roommate, Ann Drayton, and her obsessive disdain for the ruling class into which she was born. She is mortified by Ann's romanticization of the underprivileged class, which Georgette herself is hoping college will enable her to escape. After the violent fight that ends their friendship, Georgette wants only to forget Ann and to turn her attention to the troubled runaway kid sister who has reappeared after years on the road. Then, in 1976, Ann is convicted of murder. At first, Ann's fate appears to be the inevitable outcome of her belief in the moral imperative to "make justice" in a world where "there are no innocent white people." But, searching for answers to the riddle of this friend of her youth, Georgette finds more complicated and mysterious forces at work. The novel's narrator Georgette illuminates the terrifying life of this difficult, doomed woman, and in the process discovers how much their early encounter has determined her own path, and why, decades later, as she tells us, "I have never stopped thinking about her."

Margaret Flockton

Author : Louise Wilson
Publisher : Wakefield Press
ISBN 13 : 9781743058459
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (584 download)

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Download or read book Margaret Flockton written by Louise Wilson and published by Wakefield Press. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1894, a shy young Englishwoman dazzled the art world with her first exhibited work in New South Wales. Her name was Margaret Flockton, and she would go on to become Australia's first and most celebrated professional botanical artist. Her illustrations were admired for both their scientific accuracy and their exquisite beauty. Flockton was a self-effacing artist with extraordinary output. Her paintings of Australia's wild flowers led onwards to the eucalypts, acacias and more, culminating in the creation of the international award that honours her work. With hundreds of full-colour illustrations, including many of her beautiful plates, this biography captures the essence of a remarkable woman, illustrating a life of deeds, not words.

At the Edge of Honor

Author : Robert N. Macomber
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493056573
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book At the Edge of Honor written by Robert N. Macomber and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Macomber's Honor series of naval fiction follows the life and career of Peter Wake in the U.S. Navy during the tumultuous years from 1863 to 1901. At the Edge of Honor is the first in the series and winner of the Patrick D. Smith Literary Award for Best Historical Novel of Florida. The year is 1863. The Civil War is leaving its bloody trail across the nation as Peter Wake, born and bred in the snowy North, joins the U.S. Navy as a volunteer officer and arrives in steamy Florida for duty with the East Gulf Blockading Squadron. The idealistic Peter Wake has handled boats before, but he's new to the politics and illicit liaisons that war creates among men. Assigned to the Rosalie, a tiny, armed sloop, Captain Wake commands a group of seasoned seamen on a series of voyages to seek and arrest Confederate blockade-runners and sympathizers, from Florida's coastal waters through to near the remote out-islands of the Bahamas. Wake risks his reputation when he falls in love with Linda Donahue, whose father is a Confederate zealot, and steals away to spend precious hours with her at her Key West home. Their love is tested as Wake learns he must make the ugly decisions of war even in a beautiful, tropical paradise—decisions that take him up to the edge of honor.

The Crimes of the First Fleet Convicts

Author : John Cobley
Publisher : Angus & Robertson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book The Crimes of the First Fleet Convicts written by John Cobley and published by Angus & Robertson. This book was released on 1970 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The United States Air Force and the Culture of Innovation, 1945-1965

Author : Stephen B. Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The United States Air Force and the Culture of Innovation, 1945-1965 written by Stephen B. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Botany Bay and the First Fleet

Author : Alan Frost
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1743820992
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Botany Bay and the First Fleet written by Alan Frost and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in one definitive volume, Botany Bay and the First Fleet is a full, authentic account of the beginnings of modern Australia. In 1787 a convoy of eleven ships, carrying about 1400 people, set out from England for Botany Bay, on the east coast of New South Wales. In deciding on Botany Bay, British authorities hoped not only to rid Britain of its excess criminals, but also to gain a key strategic outpost and take control of valuable natural resources. According to the conventional account, it was a shambolic affair: under-prepared, poorly equipped and ill-disciplined. Here, Alan Frost debunks these myths, and shows that the voyage was in fact meticulously planned – reflecting its importance to Britain’s imperial and commercial ambitions. In his examination of the ships, passengers and preparation, Frost reveals the hopes and schemes of those who engineered the voyage, and the experiences of those who made it. The culmination of thirty-five years’ study of previously neglected archives, Botany Bay and the First Fleet offers new and surprising insights into how Australia came to be.

The Living Great Lakes

Author : Jerry Dennis
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312331030
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Living Great Lakes written by Jerry Dennis and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-06 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author provides an account of his experiences as a crew member on a tall-masted schooner during a six-week voyage through the Great Lakes, and discusses his other explorations of the lakes, looking at their history, geology, and environmental disaster and rescue.

The Nominal Roll of Vietnam Veterans

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Nominal Roll of Vietnam Veterans written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Unhappy Exiles - Convicts of the Pitt & Kitty 1792

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (954 download)

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Subscribed

Author : Tien Tzuo
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241363683
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book Subscribed written by Tien Tzuo and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHORTLISTED FOR THE CMI MANAGEMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP AWARD Today's consumers prefer the advantages of access over the hassles of ownership. It's not just internet services like Netflix and Spotify; even industrial firms like GE and Caterpillar are reinventing themselves as solutions providers. Whether you sell software, clothes, insurance, or industrial machines, you need to master the transition to the subscription model. Adapting to the subscription economy takes more than just deciding to sell subscriptions instead of products. You'll have to reinvent your company from the inside out -- from your accounting to your entire IT architecture. No matter how large or small your company, Subscribed gives you a practical, step-by-step framework to rebuild your business around a customer-centric, recurring revenue model.In ten years, we'll be subscribing to everything: information technology, transportation, retail, healthcare, even housing. Informed by insights straight from the servers of Zuora, the world's largest subscription finance platform, Subscribed is the book that explains how this shift really works -- and how business leaders can prepare and prosper.

Storyland

Author : Catherine McKinnon
Publisher : Fourth Estate
ISBN 13 : 9781460752326
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (523 download)

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Download or read book Storyland written by Catherine McKinnon and published by Fourth Estate. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ambitious, remarkable and moving novel about who we are: our past, present and future, and our connection to this land. In 1796, a young cabin boy, Will Martin, goes on a voyage of discovery in the Tom Thumb with Matthew Flinders and Mr Bass: two men and a boy in a tiny boat on an exploratory journey south from Sydney Cove to the Illawarra, full of hope and dreams, daring and fearfulness. Set on the banks of Lake Illawarra and spanning four centuries, Storyland is a unique and compelling novel of people and place - which tells in essence the story of Australia. Told in an unfurling narrative of interlinking stories, in a style reminiscent of David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas, McKinnon weaves together the stories of Will Martin together with the stories of four others: a desperate ex-convict, Hawker, who commits an act of terrible brutality; Lola, who in 1900 runs a dairy farm on the Illawarra with her brother and sister, when they come under suspicion for a crime they did not commit; Bel, a young girl who goes on a rafting adventure with her friends in 1998 and is unexpectedly caught up in violent events; and in 2027, Nada, who sees her world start to crumble apart. Intriguingly, all these characters are all connected - not only through the same land and water they inhabit over the decades, but also by tendrils of blood, history, memory and property... Compelling, thrilling and ambitious, Storyland is our story, the story of Australia. 'The land is a book waiting to be read' as one of the characters says - and this novel tells us an unforgettable and unputdownable story of our history, our present and our future.