A History of South Australia
A History of South Australia

Author: Paul Sendziuk

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-05-16

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 1107623650

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A History of South Australia investigates the state's history from before the arrival of the first European explorers to today.

Roving Mariners
Roving Mariners

Author: Lynette Russell

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2012-11-01

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1438444257

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For most Australian Aboriginal people, the impact of colonialism was blunt—dispossession, dislocation, disease, murder, and missionization. Yet there is another story of Australian history that has remained untold, a story of enterprise and entrepreneurship, of Aboriginal people seizing the opportunity to profit from life at sea as whalers and sealers. In some cases participation was voluntary; in others it was more invidious and involved kidnapping and trade in women. In many cases, the individuals maintained and exercised a degree of personal autonomy and agency within their new circumstances. This book explores some of their lives and adventures by analyzing archival records of maritime industry, captains' logs, ships' records, and the journals of the sailors themselves, among other artifacts. Much of what is known about this period comes from the writings of Herman Melville, and in this book Melville's whaling novels act as a prism through which relations aboard ships are understood. Drawing on both history and literature, Roving Mariners provides a comprehensive history of Australian Aboriginal whaling and sealing.

The First Wave
The First Wave

Author: Gillian Dooley

Publisher: Wakefield Press

Published: 2019-06-20

Total Pages: 462

ISBN-13: 174305615X

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The European maritime explorers who first visited the bays and beaches of Australia brought with them diverse assumptions about the inhabitants of the country, most of them based on sketchy or non-existent knowledge, contemporary theories like the idea of the noble savage, and an automatic belief in the superiority of European civilisation. Mutual misunderstanding was almost universal, whether it resulted in violence or apparently friendly transactions. Written for a general audience, The First Wave brings together a variety of contributions from thought-provoking writers, including both original research and creative work. Our contributors explore the dynamics of these early encounters, from Indigenous cosmological perspectives and European history of ideas, from representations in art and literature to the role of animals, food and fire in mediating first contact encounters, and Indigenous agency in exploration and shipwrecks. The First Wave includes poetry by Yankunytjatjara Aboriginal poet Ali Cobby Eckermann, fiction by Miles Franklin award-winning Noongar author Kim Scott and Danielle Clode, and an account of the arrival of Christian missionaries in the Torres Strait Islands by Torres Strait political leader George Mye.

Adelaide & South Australia Travel Adventures
Adelaide & South Australia Travel Adventures

Author: Holly Smith

Publisher: Hunter Publishing, Inc

Published: 2010-09-14

Total Pages: 429

ISBN-13: 1588437787

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The author, a native Australian, covers everything you might want to know about Australia - guaranteed! The places to stay, from budget to luxury, rentals to B&Bs, the restaurants, from fast food to the highest quality, the beachwalks and bushwalks, the wildlife and how to see it, exploring the country by air, on water, by bike, and every other way. This guide zeroes in on Adelaide and the Southern part of Australia, but a detailed introduction covers all aspects of travel to and around the continent as well, plus the history, culture and sightseeing.