Amazing Facts About Australia's Early Explorers
Author: Steve Parish
Publisher: Steve Parish
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9781741932591
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Author: Steve Parish
Publisher: Steve Parish
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9781741932591
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ernest Favenc
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Published: 2009-08
Total Pages: 494
ISBN-13: 9781104975722
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book, Lectures On The Formation Of Character, Temptations And Mission Of Young Men (1853), by Rufus Wheelwright Clark, is a replication of a book originally published before 1861. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible. This book was created using print-on-demand technology. Thank you for supporting classic literature.
Author: Ernest Favenc
Publisher: London : Griffith, Farran, Okeden & Welsh
Published: 1888
Total Pages: 510
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert Thynne
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Published: 1894
Total Pages: 298
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kirsty Murray
Publisher: National Library Australia
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 102
ISBN-13: 0642277494
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTo the first Europeans who came to Australia, everything seemed topsy turvy. Christmas was in the summer and trees shed their bark but not their leaves. And the animals were bizarre. There was a bird that laughed like a donkey and a type of greyhound that bound along on its hind legs like a hare. There was an animal in Tasmania whose nocturnal screeches sounded like the devil and a river creature that had a duck's bill at one end and a beaver's tail at the other. The Europeans had never seen anything like these animals before and gave them names similar to those of the European creatures they already knew. They drew and painted odd pictures of them, showing they did not understand the animals' habits. In one illustration, a wombat is standing on its back legs and in another a Tasmanian tiger is wrestling with a platypus of the same size.
Author: Erwin Feeken
Publisher: Xlibris Au
Published: 2019-06-21
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9781543401691
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe map of Australia abounds with fascinating geographical place-names, the origins of which have, for long, been hidden in the journals of our early explorers. Now after nine years of research, Erwin Feeken, a highly qualified cartographer, and his wife, Gerda, have finalised the first complete record of Australian geographical place-names and the most comprehensive general reference work on Australian exploration ever published. In European Discovery and Exploration of Australia, there are twenty-three beautifully drawn four-colour maps plus index showing the routes of more than 120 explorers with the locality of their named features numbered to accord with a Key to the Maps. The place-names in the Key have been numbered approximately in chronological order of their naming, though places found during a single expedition have been grouped together. There is also a gazetteer containing over four thousand place-names alphabetically arranged with notes on their origins. The map reference numbers (in brackets) form a cross-reference with the Key to the Maps. The work is introduced by a foreword from Lord Casey and an essay on the nature of Australian exploration by Professor O. H. K. Spate, director of the Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University. The text, comprising a survey of Australian exploration, is arranged in the form of biographies of the explorers (describing, for the first time, several almost unknown figures) with emphasis on their expeditions and under the following headings: "The Approach to Australia"; "Exploration before Settlement, 1606-1788"; "From Botany Bay to the Blue Mountains, 1788-1813"; "Land and Sea Expeditions, 1813-1901." This section of the book is very fully illustrated with 18 full-colour plates and some 150 black-and-white photographs, mostly reproductions of early prints. Concluding the book are bibliographies of sources and references, a list of illustrations, and an index of explorers and ships. The comprehensive nature of this work will ensure that it becomes a valuable reference book for students, while the text and illustrations will appeal to all who are interested in our history. Collectors of Australiana will welcome this most attractive addition to the ever-increasing number of available publications.
Author: Ernest Favenc
Publisher: Melbourne, Whitcombe
Published: 1908
Total Pages: 342
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Author: Julian Edmund Tenison-Woods
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Published: 1865
Total Pages: 480
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert Coupe
Publisher: New Holland Publishing Australia Pty Limited
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9781864362855
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAustralian Explorers covers the exploits of Australias most memorable land and sea explorers memorable land and sea explorers.After an introduction to set the scene, each chapter focuses on the achievements of individual explorers, relating the triumphs, defeats and hardships of their pioneering adventures.
Author: Bruce Pascoe
Publisher:
Published: 2015-10-01
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781922142436
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDark Emu puts forward an argument for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians. The evidence insists that Aboriginal people right across the continent were using domesticated plants, sowing, harvesting, irrigating and storing - behaviors inconsistent with the hunter-gatherer tag. Gerritsen and Gammage in their latest books support this premise but Pascoe takes this further and challenges the hunter-gatherer tag as a convenient lie. Almost all the evidence comes from the records and diaries of the Australian explorers, impeccable sources.