A Sheltered Life
A Sheltered Life

Author: Paul Chambers

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9780195223965

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A Sheltered Life offers a fascinating look at one of the world's strangest and most wondrous animals--whose significance in modern science and culture cannot be underestimated. In an engaging blend of cultural and natural history, the book ranges from the earliest mention of the tortoises many millennia ago, to the wholesale plunder of their populations starting in the sixteenth century, to modern attempts to protect the tortoise and track down members of what were once believed to be extinct populations.

From the Dreaming to 1915
From the Dreaming to 1915

Author: Ross Fitzgerald

Publisher: Queensland, Australia ; New York : University of Queensland Press

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13:

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Includes Aboriginal prehistory and earliest alien contacts; resistance to European settlement; native police; government protection policies; Aborigines and Kanakas.

Plains of Promise, Rivers of Destiny
Plains of Promise, Rivers of Destiny

Author: Joseph Michael Powell

Publisher: Boolarong Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13:

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Analysis of the role of water management in the development of Queensland after its separation from NSW. The book is divided into four chronological parts, each beginning with a discussion of general background issues. The author is a prolific and well-known writer and lecturer in human geography.

Convicts, Clergymen, and Churches
Convicts, Clergymen, and Churches

Author: Allan M. Grocott

Publisher:

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 368

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Examines the attitudes of convicts and ex-convicts towards the churches and clergy ; includes references to missionary work among Aboriginal people.

A River with a City Problem
A River with a City Problem

Author: Margaret Cook

Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press

Published: 2023-05-22

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 0702267058

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When floods devastated South East Queensland in 2011, who was to blame? Despite the inherent risk of living on a floodplain, most residents had pinned their hopes on Wivenhoe Dam to protect them, and when it failed to do so, dam operators were blamed for the scale of the catastrophic events that followed. A River with a City Problem is a compelling history of floods in the Brisbane River catchment, especially those in 1893, 1974, 2011 and 2022. Extensively researched, it highlights the force of nature, the vagaries of politics and the power of community. With many river cities facing urban development challenges, historian Margaret Cook makes a convincing argument for what must change to prevent further tragedy. In this updated edition, Cook investigates the 2022 floods to illustrate how no two floods are the same.