Conservation of Historic Graveyards
Conservation of Historic Graveyards

Author: Ingval Maxwell

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13:

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Illustrating the relationship between animals and people, and the struggle to survive that many animals face day in day out, this book reveals how many types of animals are in danger of extinction as they are hunted for their skin, teeth and bones and how other species have become threatened because humans have destroyed their habitats. All sections of the animal world are represented, from butterflies, beetles and bugs to snakes and larger mammals - bears, big cats and elephants. The text explains what is currently being done to protect these endangered animals and how research is helping experts to understand what can be done to preserve them and their habitats in the future.

Early Architects of the Hunter Region
Early Architects of the Hunter Region

Author: Les Reedman

Publisher: Borago Academic

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9781741309508

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Connects the development of the Hunter Valley with the architects living and practising in the region. It outlines the early settlement and growth of the valley in which the architectural profession gradually responded to the challenges and opportunities in some isolation, away from Sydney town.

Daisy in Exile
Daisy in Exile

Author: Daisy White

Publisher: National Library Australia

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 0642107645

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Fontainbleu, outside Paris, is almost as far from country Australia - spiritually and geographically - as a schoolgirl can get. But that is where Margaret Isabel White, known as Daisy, found herself for the final years of her education. This intensely personal account of her teenage life has been thoughtfully annotated by editor Riviere.

On Radji Beach
On Radji Beach

Author: Ian W. Shaw

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2010-09-01

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 1466825960

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When Singapore fell dramatically to the Japanese on 15 February 1942, hundreds of people scrambled to leave. Amongst the evacuees were 65 Australian nurses who boarded coastal freighter "Vyner Brooke" which Japanese bombers sank. The largest group of nurses that made it to shore gathered at Radji Beach. Eventually the shipwreck survivors surrendered to the Japanese rather than slowly starve to death. The Japanese did not accept their surrender and divided the Europeans into three groups and killed all in turn. The Australian nurses were in the third group, and 21 of them died in a hail of bullets as they walked into the waters off the beach. There was one survivor, Vivian Bullwinkel, and she went on to survive the various camps and diseases that took away several of her friends.