The Book of Coniston
Author: William Gershom Collingwood
Publisher:
Published: 1897
Total Pages: 138
ISBN-13:
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Coniston
Author: Michael Bradley
Publisher: UWA Publishing
Published: 2019-11-01
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 1760801046
DOWNLOAD EBOOK‘Mowed them down wholesale!’ With these words, a judge summed up the last great punitive massacre of Aboriginal people in Australia. Coniston, Central Australia, 1928: the murder of an itinerant prospector at this isolated station by local Warlpiri triggered a series of police-led expeditions that ranged over vast areas for two months, as the hunting parties shot down victims by the dozen. The official death toll, declared by the whitewash federal inquiry as being all in self-defence, was 31. The real number was certainly multiples of that. Coniston has never before been fully researched and recorded; with this book that absence in Australia’s history is now filled. As the last great mass killing in our country’s genocidal past but an event largely unremembered, it reminds us that, without truth, there can be no reconciliation.
The Book of Coniston
Author: William Gershom Collingwood
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2018-09-20
Total Pages: 85
ISBN-13: 3734040140
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReproduction of the original: The Book of Coniston by William Gershom Collingwood
The Cottage by Coniston
Author: Deborah M. Hathaway
Publisher: Draft Horse Publishing
Published: 2020-08-10
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781733482059
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat could possibly go wrong by asking someone else to make all of her decisions?After a misguided kiss and subsequent rejection by yet another gentleman, Miss Amy Paxton convinces her brother to make all of her future decisions, especially in finding her a husband. His strategy? She must seek his advice before doing anything. Desperate for a happier future and a fresh start, Amy adopts her new way of life with relative ease. That is, until her new, self-assured landlord begins to meddle in her affairs. With the passing of his oppressive grandfather, Mr. William Eastwood is finally free. Free to explore business ventures, free to help his parents-and free to marry his childhood friend, Miss Charity Winslow. But matters are complicated when he must help his new tenant, Amy Paxton, stand up to her overbearing brother. William soon discovers, however, that Amy is not as defenseless as she seems.Anxious to discover the reasoning behind her behavior, William determines to uncover the real Amy, and an attraction sparks between them. But when challenges arise, Amy must protect herself as William struggles to choose between what his heart longs for-and what his duty demands. The fifth book in the Seasons of Change series, The Cottage by Coniston, is a stand-alone novel. Check out the other books in the series to discover stories about change and love.Book One: The Road Through Rushbury by Martha KeyesBook Two: A Forgiving Heart by Kasey StocktonBook Three: The Last Eligible Bachelor by Ashtyn NewboldBook Four: A Well-Trained Lady by Jess HeilemanBook Five: The Cottage by Coniston by Deborah M. HathawayBook Six: A Haunting at Havenwood by Sally BrittonBook Seven: His Disinclined Bride by Jennie Goutet
I Hate the Lake District
Author: Charlie Gere
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2019-10-08
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1912685116
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn alternative view of the North West of England that delves into its stranger past. I Hate the Lake District offers a different vision of the rural environment from those found in much contemporary nature writing. Based on the author's trips around North West England, the book engages with nuclear power and nuclear war, slavery, imperialism, ghosts, love, God, cockroaches, and the sheer violence and contingency of “nature” itself—of which the human presence is merely a part. Each chapter starts with an account of a visit to a place in this remote part of England, the deep north, but digresses and wanders through multifarious themes and subjects. Among the sites Gere visits are the defunct nuclear power station at Sellafield, home of all British nuclear waste; Lake Coniston, where Donald Campbell died trying to break the water speed record; Hadrian's Wall, furthermost reach of the Roman Empire; the mysterious and deathly Morecambe Bay; sites of slavery in the North West; places where UFOs have been sighted, avant-garde artists created work, and Islamic terrorists trained; shantytowns where the navvies who built the railways lived with their families; and even the remains of Blobbyland in Morecambe. In I Hate the Lake District, Gere challenges the bourgeois pastoralism of popular nature writing and reveals the landscape of North West England as profoundly unnatural and strange.
Lake District
Author: Ian Francis
Publisher: The Crowood Press
Published: 2022-02-21
Total Pages: 435
ISBN-13: 0719840120
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom Scafell's towering volcanic crags to the deep lake-filled glacial valleys of Wasdale and Buttermere, the Lake District possesses an extraordinary variety of scenery in a relatively small area. This dramatic landscape has inspired writers, climbers, painters, and all who seek the solitude and beauty of the high fells – and wish to understand the forces that have shaped this unique place. With over 230 illustrations including maps and superb photographs with unique aerial views and panoramas, it includes: easy-to-understand explanations of how the rocks formed; how the geology affects the landscape and an exploration of the long human story of Lakeland landscapes. There are guided excursions to seven easily accessible geological locations and a dedicated website, with a Google Earth photographic guide to all the main localities mentioned in the book: lakedistrictgeology.co.uk This book will enable you to 'read' the landscape, understand how the region's rocks were formed, how glaciers and rivers sculpted the fells and valleys, and how human interaction with geology and climate has helped to create the Lake District today.
The Picts and the Martyrs
Author: Arthur Ransome
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
Published: 2008-02-02
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9781567922288
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe two Blackett sisters are to stay at Beckfoot on the lakeshore with their cook, but when their great aunt hears of the abandonment, she's on the next train.
Swallows and Amazons
Author: Arthur Ransome
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
Published: 2012-09
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 156792462X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen their boat is burned and they are cast adrift in the South China Sea, Titty, Roger, Peggy, John, Nancy, Susan, and Captain Flint make their way to land only to find themselves the captives of the redoubtable Missee Lee, one of the last pirates operating off the China coast.
Arthur Ransome's Lake District
Author: Jon Sparks
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9781841145990
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAward winning writer and photographer Jon Sparks has produced an in-depth guide to the Lake District landscapes, which in many places has changed remarkably little since Arthur Ransome's time.
CONNISTON.
Author: MICHAEL. BRADLEY
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780369346094
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