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Australia S Lost World
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Author : Michael Archer
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2000
Australia S Lost World written by Michael Archer and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Animals, Fossil categories.
In Queensland, in northeast Australia, lies one of the most significant fossil deposits in the world—Riversleigh. Here, the remains of many thousands of weird and wonderful prehistoric animals have been superbly preserved in the limestone outcrops. There are marsupial lions, carnivorous kangaroos, 23-foot long pythons, primitive platypuses, and early ancestors of the now extinct Tasmanian tiger. So important is this site to our understanding of what has happened to Australia and its living cargo over the last 25 million years that Riversleigh has been inscribed on the World Heritage List. Michael Archer, Suzanne J. Hand, and Henk Godthelp, the principal scientists on a remarkable excavation since 1976, explain the vast environmental and geographic changes that have occurred in this area since Australia broke away from the supercontinent of Gondwana, and how the animals on board this continental raft evolved through the ages. Photographs and evocative artwork bring to life the teeming tropical world that once existed in the now arid wastes of Riversleigh, and the authors discuss some of the unusual techniques used on a dig. They describe how to recognize fossils, how to date them, and how to reconstruct extinct animals from them. Originally published as Riversleigh: The Story of Animals in Ancient Rainforests of Inland Australia, this award-winning book is being issued for the first time in the United States.
Australia S Lost World
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Author : Michael Archer
language : en
Publisher: Raupo
Release Date : 2000
Australia S Lost World written by Michael Archer and has been published by Raupo this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Fossils categories.
200 kilometres north-west of Mount Isa, Queensland, lies one of the most significant fossil deposits in the world - Riversleigh. Here the remains of many thousands of weird and wonderful prehistoric animals have been preserved in the limestone outcrops. Also discusses how to recognise fossils, date and reconstruct them.
Lost World Of The Kimberley
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Author : Ian Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Allen & Unwin Academic
Release Date : 2006
Lost World Of The Kimberley written by Ian Wilson and has been published by Allen & Unwin Academic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.
Where did they come from? And how and when did they arrive in Australia? Little-known, difficult to reach, yet vital to this question are literally thousands of rock paintings, some believed to be as much as 50,000 years old, surviving high up in raised small caves on cliff faces in the remote and rugged Kimberley Ranges of North-West Australia. Known as 'Bradshaws', after pioneer farmer Joseph Bradshaw who chanced upon the first examples in 1891, they feature lithe, graceful human figures depicted in a fashion altogether different from that of even the oldest traditional art. Indeed, present-day Aborigines disown them, insisting that the paintings are from 'before our time' and dismissing them as 'rubbish' art.But just who were the people depicted in these Kimberley rock paintings? The paintings indicate a people with seafaring traditions, and this 'first wave' of pre-historic migrants to Australia could have a number of alternative origins.Ian Wilson describes the early work on the Bradshaw Paintings, and explains how new dating techniques have shed new light on the findings. He explores the theories advanced for the origins of these people; one possibility is settlement from the Andaman Islands, where pygmy-like tribes still survive and speak a language closely related to some original languages. Farther afield still the author draws connections with Saharan peoples, and he even unearths startling similarities with South American tribes. He claims that even the boomerang is not peculiar to Australia, but can be traced in other, potentially earlier, pre-historic communities.Recalling the early work of Thor Heyerdahl, this will be a wide-ranging and provocative book. It was the author's enthusiasms for art, art history and archaeology which sparked his interest in the Turin Shroud, leading to two international bestsellers, and he now applies these same enthusiasms to the very Australian (yet also potentially international) mystery of the Kimberley rock
Australia S Lost World
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Author : Patricia Vickers-Rich
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Australia S Lost World written by Patricia Vickers-Rich and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Animals, Fossil categories.
The world of long-extinct Australian animals, pieced together by palaeontologists. Written for the general reader, including children in the upper levels of primary school and the lower levels of secondary school. Illustrated.
Australia S Lost World
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Author : Pat Vickers Rich
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Australia S Lost World written by Pat Vickers Rich and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with categories.
Voices From A Lost World
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Author : Janine Roberts
language : en
Publisher: HP Trade
Release Date : 1996
Voices From A Lost World written by Janine Roberts and has been published by HP Trade this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with History categories.
A Colonial Liberalism
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Author : Stuart Macintyre
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1991
A Colonial Liberalism written by Stuart Macintyre and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This book focuses on the endeavors of a generation of high-minded reformers (Syme, Higinbotham and Pearson) to realize a liberal polity and social order in the Australian colonies. It charts the intersections of the public and private lives of these reformers as they sought to achieve a democracy which would be prosperous and improve their lives. Macintyre looks at the outcomes of their endeavors and how they responded to their disappointments.
Australia S Lost World Rich
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
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People Of The River
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Author : Grace Karskens
language : en
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Release Date : 2020-09-01
People Of The River written by Grace Karskens and has been published by Allen & Unwin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-01 with History categories.
A landmark history of Australia's first successful settler farming area, which was on the Hawkesbury-Nepean River. Award-winning historian Grace Karskens uncovers the everyday lives of ordinary people in the early colony, both Aboriginal and British. Winner of the Prime Minister's Award for Australian History 2021 Winner of the NSW Premier's Australian History Prize 2021 Co-winner of the Ernest Scott Prize for History 2021 'A masterpiece of historical writing that takes your breath away' - Tom Griffiths 'A majestic book' - John Maynard 'Shimmering prose' - Tiffany Shellam Dyarubbin, the Hawkesbury-Nepean River, is where the two early Australias - ancient and modern - first collided. People of the River journeys into the lost worlds of the Aboriginal people and the settlers of Dyarubbin, both complex worlds with ancient roots. The settlers who took land on the river from the mid-1790s were there because of an extraordinary experiment devised half a world away. Modern Australia was not founded as a gaol, as we usually suppose, but as a colony. Britain's felons, transported to the other side of the world, were meant to become settlers in the new colony. They made history on the river: it was the first successful white farming frontier, a community that nurtured the earliest expressions of patriotism, and it became the last bastion of eighteenth-century ways of life. The Aboriginal people had occupied Dyarubbin for at least 50,000 years. Their history, culture and spirituality were inseparable from this river Country. Colonisation kicked off a slow and cumulative process of violence, theft of Aboriginal children and ongoing annexation of the river lands. Yet despite that sorry history, Dyarubbin's Aboriginal people managed to remain on their Country, and they still live on the river today. The Hawkesbury-Nepean was the seedbed for settler expansion and invasion of Aboriginal lands to the north, south and west. It was the crucible of the colony, and the nation that followed.
Australia S Lost Heroes
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Author : Damien Wright
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2024-05-01
Australia S Lost Heroes written by Damien Wright and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-01 with History categories.
This extraordinary book is both an engaging military history and an enthralling mystery. Australia’s Lost Heroes tells the astonishing little-known story of the Australian soldiers who fought the Red Army in Russia in 1919 and the personal odyssey, 100 years later, to locate and identify the lost grave of Victoria Cross hero Sergeant Samuel Pearse VC MM. The Anzac volunteers fought an arduous campaign punctuated by fierce ambushes in thick forest, swamps and marshes and attacks on fortified bunkers. They also had to fight a war within, avoiding the treachery and mutiny of White Russian ‘allies’. Remarkably, two Australians were awarded the Victoria Cross, one posthumously. Yet, unlike the reverence, recognition and commemoration afforded to WWI soldiers, not only do the deeds of Anzacs in Russia remain unrecognized, their graves lie lost and forgotten. Follow the author’s journey to a remote corner of Russia with the grandson of Samuel Pearse in the hope of identifying the lost grave. Guided by a Russian battlefield archaeologist, they discover an astonishing clue which may resolve the mystery of an Australian hero missing for 100 years. An extraordinary story of national importance dedicated to those forgotten Australian heroes who fought and died in Russia after the Armistice.