Download or read book A Visit to Queensland and Her Goldfields written by Charles Harris Allen and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Visit to Queensland and Her Goldfields written by Charles H. Allen (F.R.G.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Visit to Queensland and Her Goldfields written by Chas. H. Allen and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Visit to Queensland and Her Goldfields written by Charles H. Allen and published by General Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: POINT DE GALLE TO SYDNEY. We ran the 2,134 miles which lie between. Aden and Point de Galle in eight and a half days. Several dangerous-looking rocks lie at the entrance of the latter harbour, rendering it necessary to use much caution in going round them. They stand boldly out of the water, and on them, the surf beats heavily all the year round, as it does also on the beach of the harbour. The constantly high, rough sea on this coast has compelled the natives to employ a very curious little boat, which, though frail in appearance, has the advantage of being able to weather the heaviest storm. This boat, which is called a Catamaran, is formed of the hollowed trunk of a tree, the sides of which are raised about a foot and a half by strong planks. It thus forms a narrow box, some twenty or thirty feet long, one foot wide and about two feet deep, just enabling you to sit on the cross-rails by which it is strengthened. From each end of the frail bark a long curved pole projects about ten feet on one side, and at the extremity of those two poles is securely lashed along, heavy, solid log of wood, in the form of a crescent moon, and sharpened to a point at each end. This heavy log prevents the little boat from falling over on one side by its great weight, whilst its buoyancy sustains it on the other. The native rowers propel the catamarans very swiftly with their oars, and in a high wind they hoist one mast and sail, and run before the gale at great speed, and an accident is scarcely ever known. The harbour of Point de Galle forms a broad horseshoe. On the easternmost side stands a high rocky hill, covered with cocoa-nut and other tropical trees. At the other extremity the land runs out as a low, narrow spit, on which a lighthouse has been placed. On this spit, turning partly roun...
Download or read book The Golden Madness writings from the Queensland Gold Rush written by James Moylan and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-03-09 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains a small selection of my favorite writings relating to the gold rush period in Queensland. I hope to provide the reader with a glimpse of the everyday topics and events that were of interest to the pioneer miners in the north of Australia. By largely avoiding sterile historical accounts in favor of primary texts in which personal opinions and first person observations are unselfconsciously expressed I endeavor to provide a sense of the social complexities of this era. The 'common sense' of this period is not our common sense. Many of the sentiments and prejudices expressed are jarring to a modern sensibility. Racist attitudes are unambiguously expressed. Empire is a stolid reality. Women are inferior to men. The 'great chain of being' provides an all-encompassing teleology by which all things under heaven might be ordered. Please enjoy a journey to the strangest land of them all - the past. James Moylan Researcher & Author
Download or read book A Visit to Queenland and Her Goldfields written by Charles H. Allen (F.R.G.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Lady s Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852 53 written by Mrs. Charles Clacy and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-27 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A Lady's Quest for Gold' by Ellen Clacys is an enthralling tale of her journey to Australia in 1852 with her brother in search of gold. Facing treacherous weather conditions, dangerous bandits, and a multitude of starving prospectors, Clacys' account is a vivid depiction of the hardships of gold digging in the Australian interior. Through her well-written descriptions of the geography, flora, and fauna, readers are transported to the mid-19th century and experience the journey with her.
Download or read book Stone Sky Gold Mountain written by Mirandi Riwoe and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family circumstances force siblings Ying and Lai Yue to flee their home in China to seek their fortunes in Australia. Life on the gold fields is hard, and they soon abandon the diggings and head to nearby Maytown. Once there, Lai Yue gets a job as a carrier on an overland expedition, while Ying finds work in a local store and strikes up a friendship with Meriem, a young white woman with her own troubled past. When a serious crime is committed, suspicion falls on all those who are considered outsiders. Evoking the rich, unfolding tapestry of Australian life in the late nineteenth century, Stone Sky Gold Mountain is a heartbreaking and universal story about the exiled and displaced, about those who encounter discrimination yet yearn for acceptance.
Download or read book A Documentary History of Queensland written by W. Ross Johnston and published by St. Lucia ; New York : University of Queensland Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes brief history of Aborigines in Queensland.
Download or read book The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang written by Eric Partridge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 6031 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawn from the Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, with the emphasis on the expressions used or coined before 1914.
Download or read book Men and Manliness on the Frontier written by R. Hogg and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-11-14 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In mid-nineteenth-century Britain, there existed a dominant discourse on what it meant to be a man –denoted by the term 'manliness'. Based on the sociological work of R.W. Connell and others who argue that gender is performative, Robert Hogg asks how British men performed manliness on the colonial frontiers of Queensland and British Columbia.
Download or read book Showdown at the Red Lion written by Charles Van Onselen and published by Jonathan Ball Publishers. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johannesburg, South Africa, was ? and is ? the Frontier of Money. Within months of its founding, the mining camp was host to organised crime: the African 'Regiment of the Hills' and 'Irish Brigade' bandits. Bars, brothels, boarding houses and hotels oozed testosterone and violence, and the use of fists and guns was commonplace. Beyond the chaos were clear signs of another struggle, one to maintain control, honour and order within the emerging male and mining dominated culture. In the underworld, the dictum of 'honour among thieves', as well as a hatred of informers, testified to attempts at self-regulation. A 'real man' did not take advantage of an opponent by employing underhand tactics. It had to be a 'fair fight' if a man was to be respected. This was the world that 'One-armed Jack' McLoughlin - brigand, soldier, sailor, mercenary, burglar, highwayman and safe-cracker - entered in the early 1890s to become Johannesburg's most infamous 'Irish' anti-hero and social bandit. McLoughlin's infatuation with George Stevenson prompted him to recruit the young Englishman into his gang of safe-crackers but 'Stevo' was a man with a past and primed for personal and professional betrayal. It was a deadly mixture. Honour could only be retrieved through a Showdown at the Red Lion.
Download or read book The Gold Rushes written by William Parker Morrell and published by London : Black. This book was released on 1968 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, attempting a synthesis of all the gold rushes as an aspect of the expansion of European peoples, examines not only Ballarat and Bendigo, California, the Klondike and the Rand, but the lesser known gold-fields of the Rockies, Siberia, and Brazil.
Download or read book Mission Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Lady s Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852 53 written by Ellen Clacy and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53 by Ellen Clacy is about Clacy's personal experiences with her brother visiting the goldfields of Australia after leaving their home in England. Contents: "THE VOYAGE OUT Chapter III. STAY IN MELBOURNE Chapter IV. CAMPING UP—MELBOURNE TO THE BLACK FOREST Chapter V. CAMPING UP—BLACK FOREST TO EAGLE HAWK GULLY Chapter VI. THE DIGGINGS Chapter VII. EAGLE HAWK GULLY..."
Download or read book First Supplementary Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Colonial Institute written by Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain). Library and published by London : The Institute. This book was released on 1901 with total page 1084 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Gold Digger written by David MacKenzie and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
