The A to Z of the Discovery and Exploration of Australia

The A to Z of the Discovery and Exploration of Australia

Author: Alan Day

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 2009-06-19

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 081086326X

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This engaging reference examines the history of, the search for, and the discovery of Australia, taking full account of the evidence for and the speculation surrounding possible earlier contacts by the Ancient Egyptians, Arabs, and Chinese seamen. Day brings the expeditions to life, expressing the desires that drove great sea captains deeper into turbulent waters searching for caches of spice, silks, and precious metals. Covers a wide variety of topics, including _ Seamen from eight nations _ The recovery of storm wrecked ships _ Diplomatic treaties _ Priority of discovery disputes _ Military and civil explorers and surveyors _ Topographical features _ Geographical terms and places _ Rivers and river system


Australia 1872

Australia 1872

Author: Christoph Hein

Publisher: Emons Publishers

Published: 2020-03-12

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9783740808419

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- How a lump of gold went down in photographic history- Previously unpublished UNESCO World Heritage-listed photos- More than 150 impressive photosBernhard Otto Holtermann emigrated from Hamburg to Australia in 1858 as a destitute young man, where, in 1872, he unearthed the largest lump of gold in the world. Holtermann shared his newfound wealth with his adopted home. As he traveled through the settlements, he had the poverty-stricken life documented in spectacular images, and promoted Australia to the world. More than 150 of these impressive photos have now been published, most for the first time, in this bilingual edition and are thus immortalized for eternity. Over more than 200 pages, the spectacular story of the German emigrant and his lucky discovery is told, with the images commissioned by him now available for the general public. Holtermann's photos impressively document the drudgery of the gold mines and life in Australia during the 19th century. Several modern-day photos and representations of how contemporary artists interpret his work have been included in this coffee-table volume. Thanks to this book, Bernhard Holtermann's legacy has been given the distinction it deserves for the first time. Text in English and German.


An Australian Parsonage; Or, The Settler and the Savage in Western Australia

An Australian Parsonage; Or, The Settler and the Savage in Western Australia

Author: Mrs. Edward Millett

Publisher: London : E. Stanford

Published: 1872

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13:

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P.72-88; Barladong (60 miles E. of Perth) - visits to parsonage by natives, physical appearance, clothes, shelters built by women, camp arrangements; solitary fires lit to keep ghosts warm at grave; general beliefs; revenge killings for all deaths; description of graves; use of Wilghee for body decoration; p.99; Foods; p.128; Brief notes on Wesleyan Mission school at Barladong; Aboriginal school established by Mrs Camfield, Albany; native prison, Rottnest Island; p.142- 143; Burial; p.221-3; Kylies, birds eaten; p.228; Punishment for hunting in foreign tribal territory; p.257; Measles epidemic, 1860, King Georges Sound; p.273- 299; Account of New Norcia Mission (taken from Salvado, Memorie Storiche dell Australia ...); p.365; Glass spears; scarification; p.367-72; Fight over woman; wife inheritance; polygamy; p.414; Brief note on Aboriginal school at Perth.


Rome in Australia: The Papacy and Conflict in the Australian Catholic Missions, 1834-1884 (set 2 volumes)

Rome in Australia: The Papacy and Conflict in the Australian Catholic Missions, 1834-1884 (set 2 volumes)

Author: Christopher Dowd

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2008-07-30

Total Pages: 696

ISBN-13: 904744308X

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The founding of the Catholic missions in Australia coincided with the defining drift of power and prestige within the nineteenth-century Church. This was a period of chronic dissension among Australia's Catholic communities, powerfully drawn by the ultramontane impulse and political manoeuvring to refer their problems to the Pope. Roman bureaucratic control, exercised through the Sacred Congregation de Propaganda Fide, was the single most important factor in the resolution of these problems and, consequently, in the determinative shaping of the colonial Australian Church. Based on extensive archival research, this study explores issues of process, politics and personality in the formulation of papal policy towards a part of the world that could not be more distant from Rome.


Rutledges of Australia

Rutledges of Australia

Author: Troy Anthony Woolls Rutledge

Publisher: Rutledge EPUBliser

Published: 2018-12-15

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 0648379132

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Rutledge pioneers to a distant colony now called Australia.


Australia and Britain

Australia and Britain

Author: A. F. Madden

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-08-12

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 1135780730

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