Islands Of Angry Ghosts
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Islands Of Angry Ghosts
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Author : Hugh Edwards
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
Release Date : 2012-03-01
Islands Of Angry Ghosts written by Hugh Edwards and has been published by HarperCollins Australia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-01 with Fiction categories.
From Hugh Edwards, one of the discoverers of the wreck of the Batavia, comes Islands of Angry Ghosts, an expert and compelling look at one of the most horrific maritime incidents in Australian history. A fascinating story, in print since 1966, Islands of Angry Ghosts is a story in two parts. It traces and re-creates the final months of the Batavia and her crew, pieced together through journals, letters and trial records. It also follows the discovery and salvage of Batavia's wreck by Hugh Edwards and a crew of divers. In 1629, the Dutch East India merchantman the Batavia was wrecked on reef islands off the West Australian coast while on a routine trip to Indonesia. What followed this disaster is a harrowing tale of desertion, betrayal and murder. More than 125 men, women and children were murdered by mutineers caught in a frenzy of bloodlust and greed. By the time the rescue ship finally arrived, months later, the marooned were caught in a desperate battle between soldiers trying to defend the survivors and the mutineers who were bent on leaving no witnesses. More than three hundred years later, Hugh Edwards, a West Australian reporter and diving enthusiast, started to search for the lost ship. When Edwards and his team found the Batavia, they discovered the final piece of a story that has gripped Australians for over a century.
Islands Of Angry Ghosts
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Author : Hugh Edwards
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Islands Of Angry Ghosts written by Hugh Edwards and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Houtman Abrolhos (W.A.) categories.
Islands Of Angry Ghosts
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Author : Hugh Edwards
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
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Island Of Angry Ghosts
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Author : Hugh Edwards
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
Island Of Angry Ghosts written by Hugh Edwards and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with Deep diving categories.
Batavia S Graveyard
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Author : Mike Dash
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2011-05-12
Batavia S Graveyard written by Mike Dash and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-12 with History categories.
The true story of the mad heretic who led history's bloodiest mutiny - 'An adult version of LORD OF THE FLIES that is, moreover, entirely true' Evening Standard When the Dutch East Indiaman Batavia struck an uncharted reef off the new continent of Australia on her maiden voyage in 1629, 332 men, women and children were on board. While some headed off in a lifeboat to seek help, 250 of the survivors ended up on a tiny coral island less than half a mile long. A band of mutineers, whose motives were almost beyond comprehension, then started on a cold-blooded killing spree, leaving fewer than 80 people alive when the rescue boat arrived three months later. BATAVIA'S GRAVEYARD tells this strange story as a gripping narrative structured around three strong principal characters: Francisco Pelsaert, the cultivated but weak-willed captain; Jeronimus Cornelisz, a sinister apothecary with a terrifying personal philosophy influenced by Rosicrucianism who set himself up as the ruler of the island; and Wiebbe Hayes, the only survivor with the courage to fight Jeronimus's band. The background to these events, including the story of the Dutch East India Company, and the discovery of Australia, is richly drawn.
Sailormen S Ghosts
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Author : Malcolm John Leggoe Uren
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1940
Sailormen S Ghosts written by Malcolm John Leggoe Uren and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1940 with Abrolhos Islands, Australia categories.
Islands Magazine
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002-11
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Islands Magazine
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language : en
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Release Date : 2002-11
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Ghost Key
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Author : T. J. MacGregor
language : en
Publisher: Crossroad Press
Release Date : 2017-02-06
Ghost Key written by T. J. MacGregor and has been published by Crossroad Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-06 with Fiction categories.
When Tess Livingston got off the bus at a roadside stop high in the Andes, she couldn't quite remember how she got there. She was an FBI agent, and the last thing she remembered was tracing a group of counterfeiters to Ecuador. Then she found herself at the Bodega del Cielo, waiting for the bus to Esperanza, or at least that’s where her ticket says she’s going. Ian Ritter, a journalist from Minneapolis, is also at the Bodega. He was planning a trip to the Galapagos Islands, but his limited Spanish isn’t up to explaining why he needs to change to Bus 13 to Esperanza. Their meeting changed their lives forever. For the city of Esperanza is a place out of time, partly in the material world, and partly existing on another plane. There the spiritual world can manifest. The dead can come through … and they do. A few of the dead are Chasers, beings of light who have deferred their passage to a higher plane in order to help and protect the living. But many of the dead are brujos, angry ghosts who cannot let go, who desire only to possess the bodies of the living so they can reclaim their own physical existence in the world. Brujos kill those they possess, sooner or later. Tess and Ian, and their families, have made a good life together in Esperanza, and have no desire to ever leave it. But now something unusual, even for Esperanza, is happening. Parts of the city seem to be leaving them. *** TJ MacGregor creates imaginative worlds where neither beasts, ghosts, nor humans are as they seem to be, where anything and anyone can change in a flash, where love is still worth saving, and where the most courageous act of all is simply holding on to your humanity.” -- Nancy Pickard
Islands Identity And The Literary Imagination
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Author : Elizabeth McMahon
language : en
Publisher: Anthem Press
Release Date : 2016-07-09
Islands Identity And The Literary Imagination written by Elizabeth McMahon and has been published by Anthem Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-09 with Architecture categories.
Australia is the planet’s sole island continent. This book argues that the uniqueness of this geography has shaped Australian history and culture, including its literature. Further, it shows how the fluctuating definition of the island continent throws new light on the relationship between islands and continents in the mapping of modernity. The book links the historical and geographical conditions of islands with their potent role in the imaginaries of European colonisation. It prises apart the tangled web of geography, fantasy, desire and writing that has framed the Western understanding of islands, both their real and material conditions and their symbolic power, from antiquity into globalised modernity. The book also traces how this spatial imaginary has shaped the modern 'man' who is imagined as being the island's mirror. The inter-relationship of the island fantasy, colonial expansion, and the literary construction of place and history, created a new 'man': the dislocated and alienated subject of post-colonial modernity. This book looks at the contradictory images of islands, from the allure of the desert island as a paradise where the world can be made anew to their roles as prisons, as these ideas are made concrete at moments of British colonialism. It also considers alternatives to viewing islands as objects of possession in the archipelagic visions of island theorists and writers. It compares the European understandings of the first and last of the new worlds, the Caribbean archipelago and the Australian island continent, to calibrate the different ways these disparate geographies unifed and fractured the concept of the planetary globe. In particular it examines the role of the island in this process, specifically its capacity to figure a 'graspable globe' in the mind. The book draws on the colonial archive and ranges across Australian literature from the first novel written and published in Australia (by a convict on the island of Tasmania) to both the ancient dreaming and the burgeoning literature of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in the twenty-first century. It discusses Australian literature in an international context, drawing on the long traditions of literary islands across a range of cultures. The book's approach is theoretical and engages with contemporary philosophy, which uses the island and the archipleago as a key metaphor. It is also historicist and includes considerable original historical research.