The Fatal Shore

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Mrs Fraser On The Fatal Shore

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Author : Michael Alexander
language : en
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Release Date : 2001

Mrs Fraser On The Fatal Shore written by Michael Alexander and has been published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

In 1836,the barque Stirling Castle was wrecked on the Great Barrier Reef and the crew and the captain's wife, Mrs Fraser, were cast ashore on the coast of what is now Queensland.Captured by aborigines with cannibalistic tendencies, Captain Fraser and his wife were stripped naked and driven into the bush. Fraser was then murdered and his wife, a lady of genteel upbringing, was tortured and made to perform humiliating tasks as the slave of the tribe. Having given birth in an open boat, her baby was immediately drowned and she was forced instead to mother an aboriginal child 'one of the most deformed and ugly looking brats my eyes ever beheld'.A remarkable rescue by an Irish convict, posing as a 'ghost' of a dead warrior, saved Mrs Fraser whose subsequent misadventures in England provide an intriguing finale to this extraordinary story.

Gallipoli

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Author : Harvey Broadbent
language : en
Publisher: Michael Joseph
Release Date : 2009

Gallipoli written by Harvey Broadbent and has been published by Michael Joseph this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Gallipoli Peninsula (Turkey) categories.

It was an adventure to die for. A daring attempt to force the Dardanelles and capture the Turkish capital Constantinople. For the Allies it was the Trojan War and crusade combined. The Gallipoli Campaing was to become one of the most savagely contested of the First World War.On 25 April 1915, Allied troops stormed the cliffs of Gallipoli. Twenty-eight thousand Australians were killed and wounded in the bloody, eight-month campaign. The raging battles of the Landing, the desperate assault on Lone Pine, the gallant but futile charge at the Nek, are all engraved on the national psyche. Gallipoli is now regarded as a defining episode in Australian history. It is an extraordinary story of determination and courage, as the intrepid and resourceful Anzacs displayed the spirit that was to distinguish them on the Western Front as the Empire's most formidable offensive troops.This book by Harvey Broadbent, a leading authority on the campaign and producer of the acclaimed ABC documentary Gallipoli: The Fatal Shore, seeks to convey the story of Gallipoli to Australians of all ages. It features a foreword by General Peter Cosgrove, Chief of the Australian Defence Force.

Fatal Shadows

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Author : Josh Lanyon
language : en
Publisher: JustJoshin Publishing, Inc.
Release Date : 2021-01-07

Fatal Shadows written by Josh Lanyon and has been published by JustJoshin Publishing, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-07 with Fiction categories.

When a bookstore owner is accused of murdering his ex-lover, proving his innocence might lead a hard-nosed detective to a fatal attraction… Thirty-five-year-old gay bookseller Adrien English searches for love between the pages. As a sensitive intellectual with a heart condition, his dating life is gathering dust on the shelves. But when police name him the prime suspect in the brutal murder of his friend and employee, Adrien doesn't expect his best hope for romance to be assigned to the case… Detective Jake Riordan is hungry to climb the ranks. All he has to do for a promotion is nail the handsome bookstore owner for an obvious crime of passion. If only he could stop fantasizing about the suspect instead of the "normal" wife and family his career demands… As Riordan’s investigation heats up and the suspect insists on his innocence, the detective doubts both Adrien's guilt and his ability to resist the man's understated charms. Can they turn the crime into passion, or will a killer on the loose write The End?

Things I Didn T Know

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Author : Robert Hughes
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2010-06-30

Things I Didn T Know written by Robert Hughes and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Robert Hughes, one of the most illuminating minds ever to have taken on the subjects of art and culture, uses his same critical abilities to give us a brutally intimate account of his early life, up until the time he quit Australia for the United States. Part memoir, part history lesson, part philosophical tract, Hughes uses his own experiences to examine the nature of art, war, sex, religion, writing and life itself. Piercing, razor-sharp, and above all, fearless, this is by far Hughes's most personal writing to date.

Come On Shore And We Will Kill And Eat You All

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Author : Christina Thompson
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2009-07-14

Come On Shore And We Will Kill And Eat You All written by Christina Thompson and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-14 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

"A multilayered, highly informative and insightful book that blends memoir, historical and travel narrative-vivid and meticulously researched."--San Francisco Chronicle

Barcelona

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Author : Robert Hughes
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2011-12-07

Barcelona written by Robert Hughes and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-07 with History categories.

A monumentally informed and irresistibly opinionated guide to the most un-Spanish city in Spain, from the bestselling author of The Fatal Shore. In these pages, Robert Hughes scrolls through Barcelona's often violent history; tells the stories of its kings, poets, magnates, and revolutionaries; and ushers readers through municipal landmarks that range from Antoni Gaudi's sublimely surreal cathedral to a postmodern restaurant with a glass-walled urinal. The result is a work filled with the attributes of Barcelona itself: proportion, humor, and seny—the Catalan word for triumphant common sense.

A Source Book Of Australian History

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Author : Gwendolen H. Swinburne
language : en
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Release Date : 2020-09-28

A Source Book Of Australian History written by Gwendolen H. Swinburne and has been published by Library of Alexandria this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-28 with Fiction categories.

The Worst Country In The World

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Author : Patsy Trench
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Release Date : 2012

The Worst Country In The World written by Patsy Trench and has been published by Createspace Independent Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Reviews'Set against the backdrop of the Australian migrant experience, The Worst Country in the World is not only a great read but a thought-provoking one too, especially for those with links to Australia, which reinvented itself from a convict colony to one of the 'luckiest' countries in the world.' Karen Clare, Family Tree magazine. 'The book relates the author's family over five generations, using a variety of techniques, each of which alone would pay rich dividends for students to emulate ... It provides a rich scenario for Patsy's imagination, building on meticulous research in archives, to present us with a sensitive novel about Australia's beginnings interspersed with reflections relating to the present day.' Brian Schollar, Dorset Family History Society.Product DescriptionIn 1801 Mary Pitt, a 53-year-old widow and mother of five, left her home in Fiddleford in Dorset to sail across the world to live in a penal colony in a country that was then considered by its recent arrivals as the worst country in the world. Colonial New South Wales was then barely fourteen years old, an experiment that looked as if it was going to fail. What on earth made her go there?This is what the author Patsy Trench, Mary's great great great great granddaughter, set out to find out. She discovered that her ancestress' migration had been arranged by Mary's cousin George, who fortuitously happened to be Horatio Nelson's brother-in-law. George thought he was offering her a better future, and it turned out in the long run he was right, though at some cost. Nelson's name and recommendation played a vital part in Mary's migration, and her reinvention from penniless yeoman's widow to a woman of some standing. But in the course of it she, along with other early settlers, lived lives of hardship and great uncertainty in a country where the climate was wild and unpredictable and daily life was a matter of improvisation and experimentation.The Worst Country in the World is a story about the early days of colonial Australia as seen through the eyes of a family of free settlers. It tells how the country that was originally considered not fit to be lived in struggled to become the 'lucky' country it is now. It is a personal story told by an Englishwoman who once lived in Australia and has a deep affection for it, whose own Australian mother reversed the wheel and migrated back to England to reinvent herself as the archetypal Englishwoman. It is about struggle and snobbery, reinvention and revaluation. In the minds of Australia's indigenous population the notion of a worst country transforming itself into a lucky one might well be reversed. The Europeans' gains were the aboriginal people's losses, and the author is well aware that her ancestors were a party to what is now considered the 'invasion' of a country over which the colonists had no rights whatsoever. 'The lives of those who came before, indeed the process of researching family history, comes under the spotlight here, as the author tries to identify what makes a person who they are.' Family Tree.'The Worst Country in the World ... is a well-meant and honest attempt by the author to tell the story of her ancestors and the events regarding their move to the colony of NSW, both before and after their arrival in the early 1800s. The book is very much the personal view of the author, seeking to make the story of Mary Pitt 'an entertaining read'.' Geoff Bovard, Descent magazine, The Society of Australian Genealogists.

Close To Shore

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Author : Michael Capuzzo
language : en
Publisher: Broadway
Release Date : 2001

Close To Shore written by Michael Capuzzo and has been published by Broadway this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.

Describes how, in the summer of 1916, a lone great white shark headed for the New Jersey shoreline and a farming community eleven miles inland, attacking five people and igniting the most extensive shark hunt in history.

The Farthest Shore

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Author : Dean Francis Alfar
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013

The Farthest Shore written by Dean Francis Alfar and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Fiction categories.