Shipwreck of the Stirling Castle
Author: John Curtis
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Published: 1838
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13:
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Constructions of Colonialism
Author: Ian J. McNiven
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 1999-01-01
Total Pages: 203
ISBN-13: 1847142559
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of the most famous shipwreck sagas of the 19th century took place on the tropical coast of north-east Australia. In 1836 the Stirling Castle was wrecked off the Queensland coast and many of the crew, together with the captain's wife, Eliza Fraser, were marooned on Fraser Island. Early sensationalized accounts represent Mrs Fraser as an innocent white victim of colonialism and her Aboriginal captors as barbarous savages. These "first contact" narratives of the white woman and her Aboriginal "captors" impacted significantly on England and the politics of Empire at an early stage in Australia's colonial history. The text critically examines the Eliza Fraser episode by bringing together an interdisciplinary team of authors, artists, members of the Fraser Island Aboriginal community and academics in the areas of cultural and women's studies, literature, history, anthropology, archaeology, the visual and creative arts. This book Essays include feminist analyses of the incident, investigations of textual and visual representations of Aboriginal people, and considerations of the role played by Elisa Fraser as creative inspiration for the arts. The text explores the constructions of Empire, colonialism, identity, femininity, savagery, otherness, captivity and survival.
Cooloola Coast
Author: Elaine Rosemary Brown
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780702231292
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLong golden beaches and rocky headlands, high forested dunes, dark waterways and broad lakes - these spectacular features make up the Cooloola Coast. Stretching sixty-five kilometres from Noosa to Fraser Island, it is a remarkable and diverse environment.Cooloola Coastdescribes the area's many-layered history of human occupation in absorbing detail, opening with the story of its Aboriginal occupants, whose kinship with nature was little understood by Europeans. A new and intriguing account tells of the legendary Eliza Fraser and the effects of her experiences on relations between Queensland's Aboriginal and white inhabitants. The final section features the speculators, timber-getters, farmers and fishermen who came seeking opportunities on a new frontier.Illustrated with maps, photographs and drawings, Cooloola Coastis the first comprehensive history of this beautiful and unique environment.
The Stirling Castle, a 70-gun Ship Lost in the Great Storm of 1703
Author: Julian Whitewright
Publisher: British Archaeological Reports (Oxford) Limited
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume presents the results of work undertaken between 1979 - 2009 on the wreck of the Stirling Castle, lost on the Goodwin Sands off Kent during the Great Storm of 1703. Based on archives held by a number of organisations and individuals it examines the seabed remains, site environment and artefacts.
Swallowed by the Sea
Author: Graeme Henderson
Publisher: National Library of Australia
Published: 2016-10-01
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 0642278946
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublished in Association with the Western Australian Museum 'Swallowed by the Sea' tells the stories of Australia's greatest and most tragic shipwrecks, lost in raging storms, on jagged reefs, under enemy fire, or through human error, treachery or incompetence. It includes wrecks from all corners of Australia, from 1622 to as recently as 2010, from clipper ships to colonial schooners to East Indiamen. Read about the oldest known wreck in Australian waters, the Tryal, driven into a maze of sunken rocks by the inept Captain Brookes, and about the loss of emigrant barque Cataraqui, which struck a reef off King Island in the middle of a stormy night, drowning more than 400 people. The violent wrecking of ships is only part of the story. Maritime archaeologist Graeme Henderson has personally located and dived many of the shipwrecks in this book. Alongside his accounts are colour underwater photographs of the dive sites with specially written recollections by members of the diving crew.
In the Wake of First Contact
Author: Kay Schaffer
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780521499200
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book, colonialism, race, and gender are explored through the cultural representations of an episode of Australian history.
From the Ruins of Colonialism
Author: Chris Healy
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1997-03-27
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780521565769
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book throws fresh light on the history of memory, forgetting and colonialism. It considers key moments of historical imagination, and analyses the strange ensemble of elements that constitute Australian History. It is an innovative and stimulating investigation of historical cultures and narratives.
Shipwreck of the Stirling Castle
Author: John Curtis
Publisher: Sagwan Press
Published: 2015-08-26
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 9781340380908
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Writing Architectures
Author: Hélène Frichot
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2020-10-29
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 1350137928
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArchitects and fiction writers share the same ambition: to imagine new worlds into being. Every architectural proposition is a kind of fiction before it becomes a built fact; likewise, every written fiction relies on the construction of a context in which a story can take place. This collection of essays explores what happens when fiction, experimental writing and criticism are combined and applied to architectural projects and problems. It begins with ficto-criticism – an experimental and often feminist mode of writing which fuses the forms and genres of essay, critique, and story – and extends it into the domain of architecture, challenging assumptions about our contemporary social and political realities, and placing architecture in contact with such disciplines as cultural studies, literary theory and ethnography. These sixteen newly-written pieces have been selected for this volume to show how ficto-critical writing can be a powerful vehicle for creative architectural practice, providing new opportunities to explore modes of writing about architecture both within and beyond the discipline. The collection represents a broad range of geographical and cultural positions including indigenous and non-Western contexts, and includes a foreword and afterword by important thinkers in the domains of architectural criticism (Jane Rendell) and cultural studies/ethnography (Stephen Muecke).
Living with the Locals
Author: John Maynard
Publisher: National Library of Australia
Published: 2016-11-01
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 0642278954
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLiving with the Locals comprises the stories of 13 white people who were taken in by Indigenous communities of the Torres Strait islands and eastern Australia between the 1790s and the 1870s, for periods from a few months to over 30 years. The shipwreck survivors, convicts and ex-convicts survived only through the Indigenous people's generosity. They assimilated to varying degrees into an Indigenous way of life and, for the most part, both parties mourned the white people's return to European life. The authors bring fresh insight to the stories and re-evaluate the encounters between Indigenous people and the white people who became part of their families.
