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Crossing The Dead Heart
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Author : Cecil Thomas Madigan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1946
Crossing The Dead Heart written by Cecil Thomas Madigan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1946 with Australia categories.
Narrative of Simpson Desert Expedition 1939; p.28-29; Cooking fish & duck; hunting & returning boomerangs; p.33; Stone arrangement at edge of Finke tableland near Andado Stn.; p.37; 2 place names near Andado; remains of Dieri tribe moved to Marree; p.39; Place names around Andado; p.64; Chalcedony chips, parts of grinding stones found; p.111; Ill-treatment of natives of waterhole; Andy accompanied the expedition p. 27, photo p. 74; Ly-Ly showed the party where a soak was p. 37 and later joined them for part of the journey p. 42-49.
Crossing The Dead Heart
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Author : C.T. Madigan
language : en
Publisher: ETT Imprint
Release Date : 2023-09-01
Crossing The Dead Heart written by C.T. Madigan and has been published by ETT Imprint this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-01 with History categories.
This book is a classic narrative of modern exploration; a story of adventure, enterprise and patient scientific exploration, illustrated by photographs taken on the expedition. The Simpson is a sand-ridge desert extending 200 miles (322 km) west to east, the ridges running parallel from north to south at roughly quarter-mile (0.4 km) intervals, some reaching as high as 100 feet (30 m). Madigan planned a ground crossing in the winter of 1939. A party of nine, including a biologist, a botanist, a photographer and a radio operator, with nineteen camels, made the exhausting crossing from Andado station in the Northern Territory to Birdsville in twenty-five days. It verified Madigan's previous conclusions that the area was a wasteland. This last classic Australian exploration adventure pioneered the use of mobile radio communication; national broadcasts were made through the Australian Broadcasting Commission from desert camps. The scientific results were published and also a popular accound, Crossing the Dead Heart (Melbourne, 1946). He saw the 'Dead Heart' as a land of everlasting sand-ridges and salt-encrusted clay-pans; while his conclusions seemed correct then, within twenty years the area was criss-crossed by petroleum explorers. - Australian Dictionary of Biography
Crossing The Dead Heart
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Author : Cecil Madigan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-08
Crossing The Dead Heart written by Cecil Madigan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08 with categories.
The Dead Heart Of Australia
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Author : John Walter Gregory
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1906
The Dead Heart Of Australia written by John Walter Gregory and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1906 with Aboriginal Australians categories.
Australia S Muslim Cameleers
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Author : Philip Jones
language : en
Publisher: Wakefield Press
Release Date : 2010
Australia S Muslim Cameleers written by Philip Jones and has been published by Wakefield Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with History categories.
Between 1870 and 1920 as many as 2000 cameleers and 20,000 camels arrived in Australia from Afghanistan and northern India. Australia's Muslim Cameleers is a rich pictorial history of these men, their way of life and the vital role they played in pioneering transport and communication routes across outback Australia's vast expanses. Many of the images and artefacts in this fascinating account are published here for the first time, and this new edition contains additions to the biographical listing of more than 1200 cameleers.
Blood Tears Of The Dead Heart
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Author : David Scott
language : en
Publisher: Balboa Press
Release Date : 2017-10-20
Blood Tears Of The Dead Heart written by David Scott and has been published by Balboa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-20 with Fiction categories.
The body of a man with a crushed skull is found in outback Australia. Discovered hidden nearby is a letter containing cryptic clues to the location of a massive gold find in the unchartered Dead Heart of Australia. Greedy rumours fly, when a wife arrives to collect her dead husbands belongings. Not only is the not-entirely-bereaved widow out for a take, but also local authorities find themselves overrun by those willing to kill for a chance to find the gold. Speaking of killing, who bashed in the victims skull? Obese Sergeant Gillings is on the case with the help of his officers and trackers. The roguish Bob and his lover, Chaenee, are on the hunt as well. Australian Aborigines in the Dead Heart are on a rampage because strangers enter their forbidden territory. These gold-hungry adventurers have to fight each other, wild natives, and the unforgiving terrain itself on the perilous path to striking it rich.
Virtual Voyages
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Author : Paul Longley Arthur
language : en
Publisher: Anthem Press
Release Date : 2011
Virtual Voyages written by Paul Longley Arthur and has been published by Anthem Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with History categories.
'Virtual Voyages' is a fascinating account of the European discovery of the elusive 'great south land' told through the literature of 'imaginary voyages'. Written at the height of the era of European maritime exploration, these bizarre and captivating tales, with their wildly imaginative visions of antipodean inversion and strangeness, reveal a hidden history of attitudes to colonization. By exposing the relationship between myth and reality in the antipodes, this book casts new light on the power of fiction to influence history. In the post-colonial studies field, books about travel writing and empire have tended to focus on the high period of nineteenth-century imperialism and on the colonial settings of Africa and India. This book offers a fresh perspective by focussing on the eighteenth century, and referring to the geographical region of Australia and the Pacific, which has had far less attention. The book also breaks new ground by being the first to approach the genre of the imaginary voyage from a post-colonial perspective. In addition to the new insights into European colonialism that it offers, the book illustrates many broader themes in eighteenth-century history and thought. These include connections between the rise of science and modern imperialism, the development of narrative history and fiction and the influence of romanticism, the evolution of the early novel in Britain and France, and the role of mythology in the development of national identity.
The Littoral Zone
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Author : CA. Cranston
language : en
Publisher: Rodopi
Release Date : 2007
The Littoral Zone written by CA. Cranston and has been published by Rodopi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Literary Criticism categories.
In this, the first collection of ecocritical essays devoted to Australian contexts and their writers, Australian and USA scholars (settlers, invaders, temporary visa holders) comment on the transliteration of sea, land and interior through the works of major and minor authors and through their own experience with the bioregion. The littoral zone is the starting point in this fresh approach to reading literature and is organised around the natural environment - rainforest, desert, mountains, coast, islands, Antarctica. There's the beach where sexual and spiritual crises occur; the Wheatbelt area - the most visible clearance line on the planet; desert literature, camel trekking, and the transformation of a salt flat into an inland island. New Age literature that 'appropriates' Aboriginals and their cultures as the healing poultice for an ailing and dispirited West; a re-examination of pastoralism, and "the feet of millions of sheep . that] have done unspeakable damage to soils"; an inquiry into whether Judith Wright's work can "persuade us to rejoice" in the world; an investigation of the Limestone Plains, home of the bush capital and the bogong moth; of bananas, cane toads and the Great Barrier Reef in tropic Queensland; of national parks and guesthouses where "the mountains meet the sea"; a discursive approach to temperate islands that covers sealing, Soldier Settlement, and sea country pastoral; and finally to Antarctica, where an initial utopian approach gives way to an emphasis on its stark, 'timeless' icescape as a minimalist backdrop for human dramas. The author-terrain is no less grand in its scope: poets, playwrights, novelists, and non-fiction writers are discussed across the broad range of contexts that constitutes the littoral zone known as 'Australia'.
Our Heart Is The Land
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Author : Bruce Shaw
language : en
Publisher: Aboriginal Studies Press
Release Date : 1995
Our Heart Is The Land written by Bruce Shaw and has been published by Aboriginal Studies Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with History categories.
This collection of Aboriginal oral histories focuses on themes such as dreamings, religious life, living off the land, epidemics, droughts and floods, and self-management. Includes an introduction describing the history and geography of the region, and a chapter on the Aboriginal people and their territories in the area. Includes a bibliography and an index. The author is a former lecturer in social anthropology at the Darwin Community College and has also compiled TMy Country of the Pelican Dreaming' and TCountrymen'.
Bibliography Of Natural History Travel Narratives
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Author : Anne S. Troelstra
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2017-01-17
Bibliography Of Natural History Travel Narratives written by Anne S. Troelstra and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-17 with Reference categories.
With this book Troelstra gives us a superb overview of natural history travel narratives. The well over four thousand detailed entries, ranging over four centuries and all major western European languages, are drawn from a wide range of sources and include both printed books and periodical contributions.