The Pearling Disaster 1899
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The Pearling Disaster 1899
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1899
The Pearling Disaster 1899 written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1899 with Cyclones categories.
The Pearling Disaster 1899
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language : en
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Release Date : 2007-08-16
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A memorial. ARCHIVAL REPRINT: LIMITED EDITION. [Outridge Printing Co.; 1899].
Disasters In Australia And New Zealand
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Author : Scott McKinnon
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-07-07
Disasters In Australia And New Zealand written by Scott McKinnon and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-07 with Social Science categories.
Disasters in Australia and New Zealand brings together a collection of essays on the history of disasters in both countries. Leading experts provide a timely interrogation of long-held assumptions about the impacts of bushfires, floods, cyclones and earthquakes, exploring the blurred line between nature and culture, asking what are the anthropogenic causes of ‘natural’ disasters? How have disasters been remembered or forgotten? And how have societies over generations responded to or understood disaster? As climate change escalates disaster risk in Australia, New Zealand and around the world, these questions have assumed greater urgency. This unique collection poses a challenge to learn from past experiences and to implement behavioural and policy change. Rich in oral history and archival research, Disasters in Australia and New Zealand offers practical and illuminating insights that will appeal to historians and disaster scholars across multiple disciplines.
The Australian Book Of Disasters
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Author : Larry Writer
language : en
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Release Date : 2011-07-01
The Australian Book Of Disasters written by Larry Writer and has been published by Allen & Unwin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-01 with Nature categories.
The recent floods that ravaged Queensland saw three-quarters of the state declared a disaster zone from the capital city on the Brisbane River to remote rural communities and caused billions of dollars worth of damage, forcing thousands to abandon their homes. This latest assault by nature reminds us all that, despite its stark beauty, the Australian landscape has a deadly edge. It is a place of flood, fire, earthquake and ferocious storms. The Australian Book of Disasters features enthralling stories of catastrophe and survival and courage in the face of enormous odds. With chapters covering the breadth of this harsh land, it includes detailed accounts of the events burnt into Australia's national memory, from the Dunbar shipwreck in 1857 to the Black Saturday bushfires of 2009, and finishing with an in-depth look at the Queensland floods of 2010-2011. From the same series as The Australian Book of True Crime and The Australian Book of Heroism.
The Pearl King
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Author : Robert Lehane
language : en
Publisher: Boolarong Press
Release Date : 2014-06-23
The Pearl King written by Robert Lehane and has been published by Boolarong Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-23 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Born on a Hunter estuary, NSW, island in 1857, James Clark was orphaned at age two, arrived penniless in Brisbane ten years later, and never looked back. Starting out in Torres Strait at 23, he became the dominant figure in Australia’s pearlshelling industry, The Pearl King. Then, with a young partner, he built one of the nation’s biggest pastoral companies. He ran an oyster business in Moreton Bay that supplied gourmet markets as far away as Perth, and was prominent in Queensland’s yachting and horseracing fraternities. Entrepreneurial, generous, with a reputation for straight-shooting, he lived life to the full.
The Devil S Eye
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Author : Ian Townsend
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
Release Date : 2010-02-01
The Devil S Eye written by Ian Townsend and has been published by HarperCollins Australia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-02-01 with Fiction categories.
A forgotten fragment of Australia's past inspires a powerful new novel ... It is 1899, and one of the fiercest storms in history is brewing - a hurricane named Mahina. to a remote part of the Queensland coast come the hundreds of sails of the northern pearling fleets, and a native policeman trying to solve a murder. Nearly two thousand men, women and children are gathering around Cape Melville, right in the path of the storm that is about to cause Australia's deadliest natural disaster. Based on real events, this is the story of an unstoppable force of nature and the birth and death of an Australian dream. Praise for Affection: 'a literary tour de force' the Australian 'this is strong stuff. the oppressive humidity of townsville seems almost to drip from the page and lends Affection a hypnotic, dreamlike quality that is hard to shake ... an astonishing novel' Vogue 'a bona fide page-turner' Sydney Morning Herald
Octopus Crowd
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Author : Stephen Mullins
language : en
Publisher: University Alabama Press
Release Date : 2019-08-13
Octopus Crowd written by Stephen Mullins and has been published by University Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-13 with History categories.
A detailed study of the origins and demise of schooner-based pearling in Australia For most of its history, Australian pearling was a shore-based activity. But from the mid-1880s until the World War I era, the industry was dominated by highly mobile, heavily capitalized, schooner-based fleets of pearling luggers, known as floating stations, that exploited Australia’s northern continental shelf and the nearby waters of the Netherlands Indies. Octopus Crowd: Maritime History and the Business of Australian Pearling in Its Schooner Age is the first book-length study of schooner-based pearling and explores the floating station system and the men who developed and employed it. Steve Mullins focuses on the Clark Combination, a syndicate led by James Clark, Australia’s most influential pearler. The combination honed the floating station system to the point where it was accused of exhausting pearling grounds, elbowing out small-time operators, strangling the economies of pearling ports, and bringing the industry to the brink of disaster. Combination partners were vilified as monopolists—they were referred to as an “octopus crowd”—and their schooners were stigmatized as hell ships and floating sweatshops. Schooner-based floating stations crossed maritime frontiers with impunity, testing colonial and national territorial jurisdictions. The Clark Combination passed through four fisheries management regimes, triggering significant change and causing governments to alter laws and extend maritime boundaries. It drew labor from ports across the Asia-Pacific, and its product competed in a volatile world market. Octopus Crowd takes all of these factors into account to explain Australian pearling during its schooner age. It argues that the demise of the floating station system was not caused by resource depletion, as was often predicted, but by ideology and Australia’s shifting sociopolitical landscape
Cyclone Country
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Author : Chrystopher J. Spicer
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2020-09-15
Cyclone Country written by Chrystopher J. Spicer and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
The storm has become a universal trope in the literature of crisis, revelation and transformation. It can function as a trope of place, of apocalypse and epiphany, of cultural mythos and story, and of people and spirituality. This book explores the connections between people, place and environment through the image of cyclones within fiction and poetry from the Australian state of Queensland, the northern coast of which is characterized by these devastating storms. Analyzing a range of works including Alexis Wright's Carpentaria, Patrick White's The Eye of the Storm, and Vance Palmer's Cyclone it explains the cyclone in the Queensland literary imagination as an example of a cultural response to weather in a unique regional place. It also situates the cyclones that appear in Queensland literature within the broader global context of literary cyclones.
Tracking The Literature Of Tropical Weather
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Author : Anne Collett
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-01-09
Tracking The Literature Of Tropical Weather written by Anne Collett and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-09 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book tracks across history and cultures the ways in which writers have imagined cyclones, hurricanes, and typhoons, collectively understood as “tropical weather.” Historically, literature has drawn upon the natural world for its store of symbolic language and technical device, making use of violent storms in the form of plot, drama, trope, and image in order to highlight their relationship to the political, social, and psychological realms of human affairs. Charting this relationship through writers such as Joseph Conrad, Herman Melville, Gisèle Pineau, and other writers from places like Australia, Japan, Mauritius, the Caribbean, and the Philippines, this ground-breaking collection of essays illuminates the specificities of the ways local, national, and regional communities have made sense and even relied upon the literary to endure the devastation caused by deadly tropical weather.
The Pearl Seekers
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Author : Norman Bartlett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1954
The Pearl Seekers written by Norman Bartlett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1954 with Australia categories.
Commercial pearl fishing in Australian waters.