Australia Twice Traversed: Volume 2
Australia Twice Traversed: Volume 2

Author: Ernest Giles

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-11-03

Total Pages: 413

ISBN-13: 1108039014

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A detailed account of Australian explorer Ernest Powell Giles' five expeditions in South Australia, first published in 1889.

Australian Backyard Explorer
Australian Backyard Explorer

Author: Peter Macinnis

Publisher: National Library Australia

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 0642276846

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Australian Backyard Explorer has been recognised on the 2011 White Ravens list for international children's and youth literature. Produced each year by the International Youth Library in Germany, the White Ravens recognise 'books of international interest that deserve a wider reception on account of their universal theme' or 'their exceptional and often innovative artistic and literary style and design'. Australian Backyard Explorer tells the stories of many intrepid individuals who explored the Australian continent in the first 120 years of European settlement. It includes little known explorers as well as the old favourites, such as James Cook, Edward John Eyre, Robert Oe(tm)Hara Burke and William John Wills. There are tales not only of tragedy, conflict and death, but also of loyalty, amazing perseverance and wonder over the new animals and landscapes they encountered.

The Road to Botany Bay
The Road to Botany Bay

Author: Paul Carter

Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

Published: 2013-11-30

Total Pages: 447

ISBN-13: 1452942757

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The Road to Botany Bay, first published in 1987 and considered a classic in the field of cultural and historical geography, examines the poetic constitution of colonial society. Through a far-reaching exploration of Australia’s mapping, narrative description, early urbanism, and bush mythology, Paul Carter exposes the mythopoetic mechanisms of empire. A powerfully written account of the ways in which language, history, and geography influenced the territorial theater of nineteenth-century imperialism, the book is also a call to think, write, and live differently.

Decolonising Animals
Decolonising Animals

Author: Dr Rick De Vos

Publisher: Sydney University Press

Published: 2023-04-01

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1743328923

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The lives of non-human animals, their ways of being and seeing, their experiences and knowledge, and their relationships with each other, continue to be ignored, discounted, written over and destroyed by anthropocentric practices and endeavours. Within the vestiges of colonialism, this silence and occlusion co-opts and consumes animals, physically and culturally, into the servitude of human interests, and selective narratives of history and progress. Decolonising Animals brings together critical interrogations, case studies and creative explorations that identify and examine how non-human animals are affected by and respond to colonial structures and processes. This collection includes the perspectives of Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars, artists and activists, detailing the ways in which they question colonial ways of knowing, engaging with and representing animals. Importantly, the book offers suggestions for how we might decolonise our relationships with non-human animals – and with each other.