Pearl Shell Diver
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The Pearl Shell Diver A Story Of Adventure From The Torres Strait
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Author : Kay Crabbe
language : en
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Release Date : 2016-03-23
The Pearl Shell Diver A Story Of Adventure From The Torres Strait written by Kay Crabbe and has been published by Allen & Unwin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-23 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Sario lives with his family on a remote Torres Strait island, which he never wants to leave but the winds of change are stirring. The year is 1898 and the pearl-shell trade is at its height. When his father is coerced to join a white trader on his pearling lugger, thirteen-year-old Sario must go to work as a swimming diver to support the family. He can earn more as a pump diver, and is excited by the idea of walking on the sea floor, but the competition is fierce, and the only captain who will take him on runs the worst outfit in the fleet. With the constant danger of shark attack and the storm of the century approaching, can Sario provide for his family and realise his dream?
The Pearl Shell Diver
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Author : Kay Crabbe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-03-28
The Pearl Shell Diver written by Kay Crabbe and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-28 with categories.
Sario lives with his family on a remote Torres Strait island, which he never wants to leave - but the winds of change are stirring. The year is 1898 and the pearl - shell trade is at its height. When his father is coerced to join a white trader on his pearling lugger, thirteen - year - old Sario must go to work as a swimming diver to support the family. He can earn more as a pump diver, and is excited by the idea of walking on the sea floor, but the competition is fierce, and the only captain who will take him on runs the worst outfit in the fleet. With the constant danger of shark attack and the storm of the century approaching, can Sario provide for his family and realise his dream?
The Last Pearling Lugger
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Author : Mark Dodd
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers Aus.
Release Date : 2011-07-01
The Last Pearling Lugger written by Mark Dodd and has been published by Macmillan Publishers Aus. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Mark Dodd arrived in Broome in 1978 as a 20-year-old looking for adventure, after working his way across northern Australia. There he fell in with the crew of the fabled DMcD, one of the last of the old wooden pearling luggers that still worked the Kimberley coast diving for pearl shell. He came aboard as a deckhand before graduating to become one of the pearl shell divers. He dived for four seasons, living a life on the luggers and in the pubs and exotic alleys of Broome that would have been recognisable to pearl divers for 100 years before, but has now sadly disappeared forever. This story encompasses it all: the cramped camaraderie of life on a small wooden lugger, what it is like to be 40 metres down to the sea floor at the end of precarious length of air hose, as you search for shell whilst keeping one eye out for tiger sharks. His book is both an adventure and a wonderfully nostalgic account of an industry and a way of life that has gone forever.
The White Divers Of Broome
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Author : John Bailey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
The White Divers Of Broome written by John Bailey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Broome (W.A.) categories.
Recounts the true story of the 1912 attempt by the Australian government to train white men to master the art of pearl-shell diving and thus overcome the Asian stranglehold on the industry. Underlying theme is the racial tension between whites, Asians and Aborigines in Broome during this period. Describes a world of noodle stalls, opium dens, slum dwellings, hawkers and prostitutes, more redolent of Asia than Australia. Includes illustrations, maps and note about terminology.
Forty Fathoms Deep
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Author : Ion Idriess
language : en
Publisher: ETT Imprint
Release Date : 2018-10-01
Forty Fathoms Deep written by Ion Idriess and has been published by ETT Imprint this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-01 with Fiction categories.
(Author Note) Forty Fathoms Deep is part of the story of the pearl seas of north-western Australia. In all but a few instances, I have used names well known in the pearl world of Broome, but have taken care not to hurt susceptibilities. I am conscious I have only gleaned in a field rich with romance. There is material for many books in the adventurous lives of the men who have built up the history and industry of Broome. It is to be hoped that someone more persuasive than I will induce them to sit down and write, or, failing that, sit and talk for the enlightenment and entertainment of fellow Australians. I am greatly indebted to numerous friends in Broome who have helped me with material and who went to such pains to get for me authentic data. Hail and farewell, with a warm heart, to Con and old Sebaro, and to all the divers and tenders and seamen who were so patient at explaining the many things I desired to see and know. To all, a fair wind and a hungry market when the fleets put to sea! ION L. IDRIESS.
The Young Pearl Divers
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Author : Hubert Phelps Whitmarsh
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1896
The Young Pearl Divers written by Hubert Phelps Whitmarsh and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1896 with Children's stories, American categories.
Free Diving
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Author : Lorrae Coffin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-09
Free Diving written by Lorrae Coffin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09 with Pearl divers categories.
Free Diving is a poignant tribute to the Indigenous men and women who worked in the pearling industry as 'free divers' in the late nineteenth century in Western Australia. In a practice known as 'blackbirding' (forced unpaid labour), European pearl lugger owners used Indigenous people to dive for pearl shell. With no protective suits, the divers faced threats such as decompression sickness (known as the 'bends'), shark attack, or of being swept away by huge tides. At sea for weeks at a time, there was also the risk of the luggers being shipwrecked in cyclones that formed off the coast. The lyrical narrative is based on the celebrated song 'Free Diving' by singer-songwriter Lorrae Coffin. It sensitively reflects the emotional journey of a young man who leaves family and country to work on a lugger with Japanese and Malay divers by his side. Bronwyn Houston's illustrations are a deep-sea celebration that illuminate both the glory of the ocean and the extreme dangers encountered by the free divers. Free Diving is a fictionalised story of a young man lost at sea. Age range 7 to 10
The Pearl Shellers Of Torres Strait
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Author : Regina Ganter
language : en
Publisher: Melbourne University
Release Date : 1994
The Pearl Shellers Of Torres Strait written by Regina Ganter and has been published by Melbourne University this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with History categories.
In an ethnically stratified work force, Japanese, South Sea Islander, Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal divers brought up from the sea floor the shell that produced mother-of-pearl, and sometimes pearls. Many men died at this dangerous work. This was an industry that could have given the indigenous peoples of Torres Strait an occupation that preserved their identity and independence. Yet in spite of a co-operative lugger scheme that operated fairly successfully in the early twentieth century, a real independence was not achieved. And a resource that could have been conserved by small-scale indigenous harvesting was depleted time and again by the colonial practices of resource-raiding and mass extraction. Regina Ganter charts the progress of pearl-shelling from its heyday through its several crises resulting from overfishing to its present cautious management. The book is greatly enhanced by the oral testimony of divers and boat-owners.
The Young Pearl Divers
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Author : H. Phelps Whitmarsh
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1910
The Young Pearl Divers written by H. Phelps Whitmarsh and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1910 with Adventure stories, Australian categories.
The Young Pearl Divers
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Author : Hubert Phelps Whitmarsh
language : en
Publisher: Palala Press
Release Date : 2015-08-31
The Young Pearl Divers written by Hubert Phelps Whitmarsh and has been published by Palala Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-31 with categories.
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