The Forgotten Explorer John Finnegan
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The Forgotten Explorer John Finnegan
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Author : Alan jOHN Finegan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-09-18
The Forgotten Explorer John Finnegan written by Alan jOHN Finegan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-18 with categories.
John Finnegan (1789-1853), survivor of the traumatic Irish Rebellion of 1798, charged with larceny and transported to the horrors of the convict life in NSW, he defied all the odds of incarceration, shipwreck and betrayal, and life among the Aborigines of Moreton Bay to become one of the great characters that influenced the birth of Brisbane.Vastly underestimated for his contribution to the exploration and settlement of Brisbane, John Finnegan was deliberately ignored by John Oxley who shamelessly stole the credit for the discovery of Brisbane River and the choice of the original settlement site of Brisbane city. His selfish acts have echoed through the last two hundred years leading to many erroneous reports on the events of the time.This book presents an accurate account of the discovery of the Brisbane River and clears the many misconceptions and inaccurate reports of the Castaways' adventures and provides an exciting story of survival and redemption from poverty to respect of one for the great forgotten heroes of Australia - John Finnegan.
Narrative Of Aged Thirty Four Years Who Was With Two Other Men Wrecked On The Coast Of New Holland In April 1823 And Lived Among The Natives For Seven Months
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Author : Thomas Pamphlett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1825
Narrative Of Aged Thirty Four Years Who Was With Two Other Men Wrecked On The Coast Of New Holland In April 1823 And Lived Among The Natives For Seven Months written by Thomas Pamphlett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1825 with categories.
Detailed account of his contacts with natives and their helpfulness, Moreton Island and Morton Bay area, Queensland; mentions shelters, paths, dogs, wells, canoes; diet mostly fish and fern root; narrative partly written by John Finnegan.
Brisbane The Aboriginal Presence
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Author : Barry Shaw
language : en
Publisher: Boolarong Press
Release Date : 2020-12-02
Brisbane The Aboriginal Presence written by Barry Shaw and has been published by Boolarong Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-02 with History categories.
This second edition has been reviewed and expanded to include some of Australia’s best qualified historians and researchers in Aboriginal history. Many of these authors continue to campaign for more research into First Nations history and the Frontier Wars. This second edition of Brisbane: The Aboriginal Presence now comprises a foreword which examines recent research in Aboriginal studies, and seven instead of six papers on race relations in the Brisbane region between 1824 and 1860. It covers the convict and early settlement periods until the Separation of Queensland from New South Wales in late 1859. The papers provide overviews of race relations during each of these periods, and highlight various themes, including: • Aboriginal occupation before European settlement • The impact of European settlement • Reciprocal attitudes and relations • Aboriginal resistance and European repression • Sexual relations between Aborigines and Europeans • The role of law, administration and the press • Aborigines in the local economy • The failure of assimilation • The fate of local clans These themes are illustrated by numerous incidents and case studies including: • The observations of explorers, missionaries and administrators • Convict, runaway and settler experiences • Violent clashes on Stradbroke Island in 1831–32 • Aboriginal hangings between 1841 and 1859 • Unrest in the ‘suburbs’ during the late 1840s to 1850s • Squatters, Governor Gipps and the Kilcoy poisonings between 1841 and 1843 • The white raid on Yorks Hollow camp in 1846 • The police attack on Breakfast Creek camps in 1846 These papers are based on detailed research of primary sources by experienced historians who are distinguished for the originality and calibre of their work. This attractive and informative volume is for everyone interested in race relations generally and Brisbane in particular, including students, teachers, schools, libraries, academics and the general reader.
Barbarian Days
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Author : William Finnegan
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2015-08-06
Barbarian Days written by William Finnegan and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Winner of the Pulitzer Price and William Hill Sports Book of the Year: Barbarian Days is a deeply rendered self-portrait of a lifelong surfer looking for transcendence 'that recalls early James Salter' (Geoff Dyer, Observer) Surfing only looks like a sport. To devotees, it is something else entirely: a beautiful addiction, a mental and physical study, a passionate way of life. New Yorker writer William Finnegan first started surfing as a young boy in California and Hawaii. Barbarian Days is his immersive memoir of a life spent travelling the world chasing waves through the South Pacific, Australia, Asia, Africa and beyond. Finnegan describes the edgy yet enduring brotherhood forged among the swell of the surf; and recalling his own apprenticeship to the world's most famous and challenging waves, he considers the intense relationship formed between man, board and water. Barbarian Days is an old-school adventure story, a social history, an extraordinary exploration of one man's gradual mastering of an exacting and little-understood art. It is a memoir of dangerous obsession and enchantment. 'Reading this guy on the subject of waves and water is like reading Hemingway on bullfighting; William Burroughs on controlled substances; Updike on adultery. . . . a coming-of-age story, seen through the gloss resin coat of a surfboard' Sports Illustrated
The Explorers Of Australia And Their Life Work
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Author : Ernest Favenc
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-09-16
The Explorers Of Australia And Their Life Work written by Ernest Favenc and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-16 with Fiction categories.
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Explorers of Australia and their Life-work" by Ernest Favenc. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Geographic History Of Queensland
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Author : Archibald Meston
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1895
Geographic History Of Queensland written by Archibald Meston and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1895 with Local history categories.
A Guide Through Finnegans Wake
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Author : Edmund L. Epstein
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
A Guide Through Finnegans Wake written by Edmund L. Epstein and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with categories.
This book guides readers through the complex, pun-based, and dreamlike narrative of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. Defying conventions of plot and continuity, Finnegans Wake has been challenging readers since its first publication in 1939. The novel is so famously difficult that it is widely agreed that only the brave or foolhardy attempt to unravel this well-known but relatively little-read classic.
Early Days In North Queensland
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Author : Edward Palmer
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2021-11-09
Early Days In North Queensland written by Edward Palmer and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-09 with Fiction categories.
This book revolves around facts and incidents connected with the work of frontier life in North Queensland. It also explores the progress of pastoral occupation in the early days. In this book, the author provides information from many of the early settlers to place on record a few of the names and incidents connected with the foundation of the pastoral industry in the far north, an industry which was the forerunner of all other settlements there, and still is the main source of the State's export trade.
The Spell Of The Sensuous
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Author : David Abram
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2012-10-17
The Spell Of The Sensuous written by David Abram and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-17 with Philosophy categories.
Winner of the International Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction Animal tracks, word magic, the speech of stones, the power of letters, and the taste of the wind all figure prominently in this intellectual tour de force that returns us to our senses and to the sensuous terrain that sustains us. This major work of ecological philosophy startles the senses out of habitual ways of perception. For a thousand generations, human beings viewed themselves as part of the wider community of nature, and they carried on active relationships not only with other people with other animals, plants, and natural objects (including mountains, rivers, winds, and weather patters) that we have only lately come to think of as "inanimate." How, then, did humans come to sever their ancient reciprocity with the natural world? What will it take for us to recover a sustaining relation with the breathing earth? In The Spell of the Sensuous David Abram draws on sources as diverse as the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty, Balinese shamanism, Apache storytelling, and his own experience as an accomplished sleight-of-hand of magician to reveal the subtle dependence of human cognition on the natural environment. He explores the character of perception and excavates the sensual foundations of language, which--even at its most abstract--echoes the calls and cries of the earth. On every page of this lyrical work, Abram weaves his arguments with a passion, a precision, and an intellectual daring that recall such writers as Loren Eisleley, Annie Dillard, and Barry Lopez.
The Black Police
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Author : A. J. Vogan
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-08-15
The Black Police written by A. J. Vogan and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-15 with Fiction categories.
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Black Police" (A Story of Modern Australia) by A. J. Vogan. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
