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Book A Living Hedge the History of Australian Football in Sydney 1877 1895

Download or read book A Living Hedge the History of Australian Football in Sydney 1877 1895 written by New South Wales Australian Football History Society Inc and published by . This book was released on 2023-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This books looks at the introduction of Australian Football into Sydney and the Hunter region of NSW between 1877-1895; the difficulties, the achievements and why it eventually failed.

Book History of the NSW Rugby League Finals

Download or read book History of the NSW Rugby League Finals written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Publisher

    Book Details:
  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1904
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1130 pages

Download or read book The Publisher written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 1130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book My Brilliant Career

    Book Details:
  • Author : Miles Franklin
  • Publisher : Allen & Unwin
  • Release : 2012-01-01
  • ISBN : 1742699448
  • Pages : 262 pages

Download or read book My Brilliant Career written by Miles Franklin and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This is not a romance - I have too often faced the music of life to the tune of hardship to waste time in snivelling and gushing over fancies and dreams; neither is it a novel, but simply a yarn - a real yarn. Oh!' First published in 1901, this Australian classic is the candid tale of the aspirations and frustrations of sixteen-year-old Sybylla Melvin, a headstrong country girl constrained by middle-class social arrangements, especially the pressure to marry. Trapped on her parents' outback farm, Sybylla simultaneously loves bush life and hates the physical burdens it imposes. She longs for a more refined lifestyle - to read, to think, to sing - but most of all to do great things. Suddenly her life is transformed when she is whisked away to live on her grandmother's gracious property. There Sybylla falls under the eye of the rich and handsome Harry Beecham. Soon she finds herself choosing between everything a conventional life offers and her own plans for a 'brilliant career'.

Book Remarkable Cricket Grounds

Download or read book Remarkable Cricket Grounds written by Brian Levison and published by Pavilion. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across six of the seven continents on which cricket is played, there are some remarkable cricket grounds. From a tidal strip of sand outside the Ship Inn at Elie, in Fife, to the monumental Melbourne Cricket Ground with its 100,000 capacity, this book features the extraordinary places and venues in which cricket is played. Many grounds have remarkably beautiful settings. There is the rugged Devonian charm of Lynton and Lynmouth Cricket Club set in the Valley of the Rocks, not far from the North Devon coast. Then there is the vividly-coloured, almost Lego-like structure of Dharamshala pavilion in Northern India where local resident the Dalai Lama has watched a match. Many of England’s greatest players have come from public schools, and there are some wonderful examples of their cricket grounds such as Sedbergh and Milton Abbey. Country houses such as Audley End and Blenheim Palace form the backdrop to many cricket pitches, or castles, such as Bamburgh Castle in Northumberland, or even Portchester Castle, where there is a cricket ground inside the castle walls. Sri Lanka’s test ground, Galle, has a fort looming above it, while Newlands Stadium in Cape Town, has the unmistakeable Table Mountain as the backdrop. Some of the stunning imagery has a modern feel. Queenstown cricket ground has international jets taking off just yards from the playing action, while Singapore Cricket Club is an oasis of lush green set against a 21st century array of high-rise towers. Then there are cricket grounds in unusual places; Hawaii, Corfu, Berlin, Slovenia and St Moritz to name but a few.

Book The History of  Punch

Download or read book The History of Punch written by Marion Harry Spielmann and published by London, Cassell, 1895- .. This book was released on 1895 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Heritage of East Chatswood

Download or read book The Heritage of East Chatswood written by Vince Egan and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: East Chatswood is part of the Municipality of Willoughby. This book is one of eight published by the Council to commemorate Australia's bicentenary. It includes a section on local identities including Norman Lindsay.

Book Origins of Australian Football

Download or read book Origins of Australian Football written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume continues the story of football in Marvellous Melbourne during the 1880s. The VFA continued to add clubs as Melbourne's boom continued apace. Innovations in the game included the division of matches into four quarters, the waving two flags to signal a goal, and bells to mark the end of quarters. Victoria also played inter-colonial matches against New South Wales, Tasmania and South Australia. By 1890 South Williamstown, Prahran and University had dropped out of senior ranks, and the Ballarat clubs were excluded from competing for the VFA premiership, which left 12 senior clubs until Collingwood's emergence in 1892. VFA secretary T.S. Marshall was also at the forefront of fighting the game's turn towards professionalism, which was led by the powerful clubs.

Book Dharmalan Dana

Download or read book Dharmalan Dana written by Robynne Nelson and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2014-04-09 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Yorta Yorta man’s seventy-three-year search for the story of his Aboriginal and Indian ancestors including his Indian Grampa who, as a real mystery man, came to Yorta Yorta country in Australia, from Mauritius, in 1881 and went on to leave an incredible legacy for Aboriginal Australia. This story is written through George Nelson’s eyes, life and experiences, from the time of his earliest memory, to his marriage to his sweetheart Brenda, through to his journey to Mauritius at the age of seventy-three, to the production of this wonderful story in the present.

Book The Autobiography of John Shaw Neilson

Download or read book The Autobiography of John Shaw Neilson written by John Shaw Neilson and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 1978 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neilson (1872-1942) was the son of a small settler and contract labourer in Western Victoria, and led the same kind of life as his father, helping his family work a number of disastrous selections and adding to their income by seasonal jobs at fencing, fruit picking, quarrying and woodcutting. His mother and two of his sisters died young, and he and his brothers suffered from chronic ailments attributable to poor diet and constant anxiety.

Book The History of Greenock

Download or read book The History of Greenock written by Robert Murray Smith and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Nyungar Tradition

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lois Tilbrook
  • Publisher : Nedlands, W.A. : University of Western Australia Press
  • Release : 1983-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780855641832
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book Nyungar Tradition written by Lois Tilbrook and published by Nedlands, W.A. : University of Western Australia Press. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of Aborigines in the region; white contact; Swan River Colony; work; Aboriginal-police relations; marriage; Native Institution at Mt. Eliza, New Norcia Mission; Welshpool Reserve; right to drink alcohol; Nyungar family trees.

Book The Early History of Rockhampton

Download or read book The Early History of Rockhampton written by John Theophilous Symons Bird and published by . This book was released on 2016-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of early European exploration and settlement of Rockhampton and district.

Book The Oxford Companion to Australian Sport

Download or read book The Oxford Companion to Australian Sport written by Wray Vamplew and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Companion to Australian Sport appears in a revised, updated and greatly expanded new edition. Produced by the Australian Society for Sports History, this is the first authoritative and encyclopedic reference work on all sports played in Australia. It provides a comprehensive overview of the history and character of the innumerable codes that constitute the Australian sporting character. All sports are covered - not just the major ones like cricket, Australian Rules, lawn tennis, and horse-racing. The Companion offers succinct and informative entries on famous sportsmen and women, and on major institutions, competitions and venues. The Companion also offers thematic essays on crucial aspects of the history, culture and professionalization of sport in Australia. For the first time readers have access to biographies of sporting champions from different codes, all of whom rub shoulders in this literary pantheon. For the second edition, the editors have commissionedfour major new thematic essays: Coaching, Disabled Sportsmen and Women, Regionalism, and the Olympic Winter Games. Seven more sports have been added (badminton, bicycle racing, curling, fives, petanque, ring bowls, and surfing), along with 38 additional clubs. The second edition boasts 240 new biographies. One of its major features is a `list of lists', which provides full details about major competitions such as the Stawell Gift, Davis Cup finals, the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, the Sheffield Shield, Brownlow Medallists - to name just a few of the lists contained in this Appendix. Greatly expanded and offering a readable cultural history of Australian sport, the Oxford Companion to Australian Sport is essential reading for sportsmen and women, administrators, journalists and sports followers.

Book Edward M  Curr and the Tide of History

Download or read book Edward M Curr and the Tide of History written by Samuel Furphy and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward M. Curr (1820-89) was a pastoralist, horse trader, stock inspector, Aboriginal administrator, author and ethnologist. A prominent figure in the history of the Colony of Victoria, he rose to a senior position in the public service and authored several influential books and essays. He is best remembered for his nostalgic memoir, Recollections of Squatting in Victoria (1883), which has become a standard historical source. This book is the first comprehensive biography of Curr and explores both his life and legacy. In particular, it considers his posthumous influence on the Yorta Yorta native title case (1994-2001), when his written account of the Yorta Yorta ancestors played a key role in the failure of the claim. By exploring Curr's interactions with Aboriginal people" as a pastoralist and Aboriginal administrator"this book advocates a more nuanced, critical, and historically informed interpretation of Curr's ethnological writings than was evident in the Yorta Yorta case.