The Girl Who Left From Croatia To The Canefields
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The Girl Who Left
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Author : Debra Gavranich
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
The Girl Who Left written by Debra Gavranich and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Cancer categories.
Marija's idyllic early childhood on the beautiful Croatian island of Korčula is brutally disrupted by the invasion of the Italians and then the Nazis in 1941, bringing death and destruction. The devastation has left families struggling to survive years after the war has ended. In 1950 an opportunity arrives for 17-year-old Marija to escape the hunger and despair all around her by committing herself to a complete stranger in faraway North Queensland, through a proxy marriage. Taking the plunge, she leaves her family and friends, her culture and everything she has ever known, to sail 12,000 km to a future in a land where she knows nothing and no one, whose language she doesn't speak. Is it a chance for a better life? Will her husband be a good man? Will she ever see her family again? This is the true story of an incredibly courageous young woman who risks all in her quest to escape a still-traumatised Europe.
The Girl Who Left
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Author : Debra Gavranich
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-05-15
The Girl Who Left written by Debra Gavranich and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-15 with categories.
The Girl Who Left From Croatia To The Canefields
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Author : Debra Gavranich
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-08
The Girl Who Left From Croatia To The Canefields written by Debra Gavranich and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Marija lives in a small village on the idyllic island of Korčula off the coast near Split in the country now known as Croatia. At 18 years of age she agrees to a proxy marriage to a 27-year-old sugarcane farmer in Far North Queensland who had left the village as a small child with his family in the 1920s. The couple do not know each other, having only exchanged photographs and a handful of letters, but this marriage is Marija's escape from a traumatised post-war Europe. Her childhood is scarred by constant fear, with death and brutality stalking the island after it is occupied, first by the Italian army and later by the Nazis. Marija's older sister joins the Partisan rebels as a codebreaker for General Tito, while Marija and her younger sister and father secretly help the Partisans hiding in the hills, with intelligence on the enemy. At one stage, her beloved father is taken by the Nazis, only to return at the end of the war grateful to be alive. Bitter ethnic battles accompany this war and many from her village are tortured and killed. A life in Australia with a husband she does not know is a risk worth taking. She travels by ship to Australia along with hundreds of other young men and women seeking escape from poverty and despair in the old world to the promise of adventure, love and a better life. Finding herself sharing a farmhouse with a hostile father-in-law far removed from neighbours, in the midst of cane fields in tropical Queensland, was only bearable as she fell in love with her devoted husband, created her own family and with it, a future for the next generations in the new country. At 62, Marija is diagnosed with cancer so returns one last time to Korčula to farewell her family. However, Yugoslavia is imploding, and she finds herself once again fleeing tanks in the midst of a war. Shortly after returning from her trip, she passes away, surrounded by her Australian family in the country she has come to feel is truly her home. This is the migrant story of Australia, of courageous individuals taking the biggest risk of their lives often with little or no English. Their determination and hard work enable them to live with their sacrifices and overcome the profound loneliness of homesickness. The result is the rich diversity of our modern multicultural nation.
Planting Empire Cultivating Subjects
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Author : Lynn Hollen Lees
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017-12-21
Planting Empire Cultivating Subjects written by Lynn Hollen Lees and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-21 with History categories.
This is an innovative study of how British Colonial rule and society in Malayan towns and plantations transformed immigrants into British subjects.
Mirrors
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Author : Eduardo Galeano
language : en
Publisher: Portobello Books
Release Date : 2011-08-04
Mirrors written by Eduardo Galeano and has been published by Portobello Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-04 with History categories.
In Mirrors, Galeano smashes aside the narrative of conventional history and arranges the shards into a new pattern, to reveal the past in radically altered form. From the Garden of Eden to twenty-first-century cityscapes, we glimpse fragments in the lives of those who have been overlooked by traditional histories: the artists, the servants, the gods and the visionaries, the black slaves who built the White House, and the women who were bartered for dynastic ends
Food At Work
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Author : Christopher Wanjek
language : en
Publisher: International Labour Organization
Release Date : 2005
Food At Work written by Christopher Wanjek and has been published by International Labour Organization this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Law categories.
This volume establishes a clear link between good nutrition and high productivity. It demonstrates that ensuring that workers have access to nutritious, safe and affordable food, an adequate meal break, and decent conditions for eating is not only socially important and economically viable but a profitable business practice, too. Food at Work sets out key points for designing a meal program, presenting a multitude of "food solutions" including canteens, meal or food vouchers, mess rooms and kitchenettes, and partnerships with local vendors. Through case studies from a variety of enterprises in twenty-eight industrialized and developing countries, the book offers valuable practical food solutions that can be adapted to workplaces of different sizes and with different budgets.
Black British Migrants In Cuba
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Author : Jorge L. Giovannetti-Torres
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-10-25
Black British Migrants In Cuba written by Jorge L. Giovannetti-Torres and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-25 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Provides a valuable transnational history of the African Diaspora through examination of British Afro-Caribbeans in Cuba.
Rogue State
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Author : William Blum
language : en
Publisher: Zed Books
Release Date : 2006-02-13
Rogue State written by William Blum and has been published by Zed Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-02-13 with History categories.
Rogue State and its author came to sudden international attention when Osama Bin Laden quoted the book publicly in January 2006, propelling the book to the top of the bestseller charts in a matter of hours. This book is a revised and updated version of the edition Bin Laden referred to in his address.
Elemental Disappearances
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Author : Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh
language : en
Publisher: punctum books
Release Date : 2016-11-28
Elemental Disappearances written by Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh and has been published by punctum books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-28 with Arts categories.
"Elemental Disappearances casts a wanderer's eye upon an ever-expanding configuration of sites of disturbance. The things sought after are apparitional: they appear and disappear at will; they perfect the art of materialization and vanishing. Such is the nature of living dangerously, and with it the short duration of enchantment. This collection tracks provocative ideas, artifacts, and phenomena rising and fading across different territories of the contemporary world. Through a constellation of powerful thought-images, the authors uncover spaces of an ephemeral and fugitive nature in order to generate a fractal vision of our time and beyond." (back cover)
No One Else
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Author : R. Kikuo Johnson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-11-09
No One Else written by R. Kikuo Johnson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-09 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
A death throws a family's life into turmoil in one of the most anticipated graphic novel releases of 2021.