The Wild White Man Of Badu
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The Wild White Man Of Badu
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Author : Ion Idriess
language : en
Publisher: ETT Imprint
Release Date : 2023-10-01
The Wild White Man Of Badu 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 2023-10-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This true story came from the ship's log of the HMS Rattlesnake under the command of Captain Owen Stanley... who was searching for the Kennedy expedition... sailing the Coral Seas searching for men in the peninsula ranges, and Barbara Thompson was captive on Murralug; Billy Winn, an escaped convict from Norfolk Island, had, through a reign of terror and treachery, cowed the most fearful of all peoples - the Coral Sea headhunters. He had taken power on Badu as the feared demi-god Wongai. Hearing that a white woman was to be found on Murralug, he gathered the Badu headhunters to raid Murralug... However Barbara, after being held on Murralug for five years, succeeded in escaping from the Murralug people and Wongai, and incredibly, was rescued by Captain Owen Stanley and taken back to Sydney. - Beverley Eley, from her biography Ion Idriess.
The Wild White Man Of Badu
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Author : Ion Idriess
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-07-15
The Wild White Man Of Badu written by Ion Idriess and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Billy Winn, an escaped convict from Norfolk Island, had, through a reign of terror and treachery, cowed the most fearful of all peoples - the Coral Sea headhunters. He had taken power on Badu as the feared demi-god Wongai. Hearing that a white woman was to be found on Murralug, he gathered the Badu headhunters to raid Murralug...
The Wild White Man Of Badu
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Author : Ion Llewellyn Idriess
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1950
The Wild White Man Of Badu written by Ion Llewellyn Idriess and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1950 with Torres Strait Islands (Qld.) categories.
Popular account of white castaway living on Badu c.1840s.
Prosthetic Gods
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Author : Robert Dixon
language : en
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
Release Date : 2001
Prosthetic Gods written by Robert Dixon and has been published by Univ. of Queensland Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
The Rock Looking Into Australia S Heart Of Darkness From The Edge Of Its Wild Frontier
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Author : Aaron Smith
language : en
Publisher: Transit Lounge
Release Date : 2020-12-01
The Rock Looking Into Australia S Heart Of Darkness From The Edge Of Its Wild Frontier written by Aaron Smith and has been published by Transit Lounge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Journalist Aaron Smith's new memoir holds up a unique mirror to Australia. What he sees is at once amazing, disturbing and revealing. The Rock explores the failings of our nation's character, its unresolved past and its uncertain future from the vantage point of its most northerly outpost, Thursday Island. Smith was the last editor, fearless journalist and the paperboy of Australia's most northerly newspaper, the Torres News, a small independent regional tabloid that, until it folded in late 2019, was the voice of a predominantly Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal readership for 63 years across some of the most remote and little understood communities in Australia. The Rock is a story of self-discovery where Smith grapples to understand a national identity marred by its racist underbelly, where he is transplanted from his white-boy privileged suburban life to being a racial and cultural minority, and an outsider. Peppered with his experiences, Smith gradually and sensitively becomes embedded in island life while vividly capturing the endless and often farcical parade of personalities and politicians including Scott Morrison and Tony Abbott. Smith pulls no punches while he reflects on the history of Terra Australis incognita, dissecting what is truly Australia, and its gaping cultural and moral divide. 'A credit to regional journalism, Aaron carried on the fine tradition of the Torres News holding governments to account and telling stories of everyday life in the Straits, never shying away from controversies, lifting all the rocks and even out foxing prime minister Tony Abbott on his visit to Mabo's grave.' — Stefan Armbruster, SBS 'Aaron Smith makes a huge and extremely valuable contribution to journalism in Australia. With insight and committment he brings issues of national and international significance to audiences in Australia and beyond.' — Dr Tess Newton Cain, Griffith Asia Institute 'Aaron's journalism has provided a rare and valuable insight into issues affecting the Torres Strait Islander community. Navigating cultural protocols and geographical challenges, he has given a voice to some of Australia's most marginalised people and shared important stories that would otherwise have gone unheard.' — Ella Archibald-Binge, Sydney Morning Herald
Body Trade
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Author : Barbara Creed
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-12-02
Body Trade written by Barbara Creed and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-02 with History categories.
Body Trade exposes myths surrounding the trade in heads, cannibalism, captive white women, the display of indigenous people in fairs and circuses, the stolen generations, the 'comfort' women and the making of the exotic/erotic body. This is a lively and intriguiung comtribution to the study of the postcolonial body.
New Guinea
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Author : Clive Moore
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2003-07-31
New Guinea written by Clive Moore and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-07-31 with History categories.
New Guinea, the world's largest tropical island, is a land of great contrasts, ranging from small glaciers on its highest peaks to broad mangrove swamps in its lowlands and hundreds of smaller islands and coral atolls along its coasts. Divided between two nations, the island and its neighboring archipelagos form Indonesia’s Papua Province (or Irian Jaya) and the independent nation of Papua New Guinea, both former European colonies. Most books on New Guinea have been guided by these and other divisions, separating east from west, prehistoric from historic, precontact from postcontact, colonial from postcolonial. This is the first work to consider New Guinea and its 40,000-year history in its entirety. The volume opens with a look at the Melanesian region and argues that interlocking exchange systems and associated human interchanges are the "invisible government" through which New Guinea societies operate. Succeeding chapters review the history of encounters between outsiders and New Guinea's populations. They consider the history of Malay involvement with New Guinea over the past two thousand years, demonstrating the extent to which west New Guinea in particular was incorporated into Malay trading and raiding networks prior to Western contact. The impact of colonial rule, economic and social change, World War II, decolonization, and independence are discussed in the final chapter.
Cape York Peninsula
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Author : Lennie Wallace
language : en
Publisher: Boolarong Press
Release Date : 2011-12-01
Cape York Peninsula written by Lennie Wallace and has been published by Boolarong Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-01 with History categories.
This is a lively book, full of hitherto unlauded heroes and heroines, telling of the feats of the early pastoral explorers, drovers and pioneers of the Cape York Peninsula.
Coral Sea Calling
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Author : Ion Idriess
language : en
Publisher: ETT Imprint
Release Date : 2023-03-01
Coral Sea Calling 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 2023-03-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The treacherous and beautiful Coral Sea is the background for this story of the nineteenth century adventurers on perilous voyages into its waters in search of the bêche-de-mer and pearl shell; of the savage chiefs who ruled its islands; of the seamen who charted it; of the explorers struggling up the Queensland coast; a tale of the taming of the wilderness and its people. ...as in all Idriess books, there is always something good somewhere; and here it is the two chapters on Jemmy the Hook, who had had both hands chopped off by mutinous islander-crews, and who returned with iron hooks instead of hands to take a gruesome vengeance on yet another mutinous crew; it is a story which calls all the Idriess descriptive powers into play, and the reader avid of blood-and-guts can be assured of exactly that. - The Bulletin, 1957 As so often in Australian letters, an initial fall into obscurity and harsh judgments of the literary establishment serve as good indicators of a writer's pre-eminence. - Nicholas Rothwell, The Australian, 2017
Drums Of Mer
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Author : Ion Idriess
language : en
Publisher: ETT Imprint
Release Date : 2018-10-01
Drums Of Mer 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.
To one who for a good many years has lived among the tropic isles of Torres Strait, and whose constant regret has been that their romantic attractiveness is so little known even to Australians, the Drums of Mer comes with very strong appeal. There are some who may think that Mr Idriess is giving us simply an imaginative picture, but the author has travelled the Strait with the discerning eye and contemplative soul of the artist who is satisfied only with first-hand colour, and who, while blending history and romance with subtle skill, at the same time keeps within the region of fact. The records and documents placed at his disposal by those who have patiently collected them in the interests of history, of ethnological and scientific research, and (if one may be allowed to say so) even of missionary theological science also, provide the rich store upon which he has drawn for the thrilling story he has woven round the people of Mer and the other islands of Torres Strait. We have been waiting for someone to catch the charm and appealing mysteriousness of these islands, and to visualize the days, not so very long past, when the great outrigger canoes, with their companies of feather-bedecked headhunters, traversed the opalescent waters a couple of hundred miles down the Barrier, to return perhaps with cowering white captives or grim human trophies for the ceremonies of the 'Au-gud-Au-Ai,' the 'Feast of the Great God.' And if it seems that the starkness of tragedy throws a cloud here and there over the dramatic episodes which the author has so well narrated, possibly it is a good thing for present-day tourist-travellers (and others too!), to realize that a trip along the Barrier and through the Strait on the way to China was not always so free from danger. (from Foreword by Wm. H. MacFarlane), Mission Priest, Torres Strait; Administrator of the Diocese of Carpentaria. 31 July 1933.)