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Book Many Maps

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bill Bunbury
  • Publisher : University of Western Australia Press
  • Release : 2020-09
  • ISBN : 9781760801410
  • Pages : 392 pages

Download or read book Many Maps written by Bill Bunbury and published by University of Western Australia Press. This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The title Many Maps, Charting Two Cultures, looks at the way two contrasting societies often misunderstood each other in the western third of Australia. Maps can be drawn and interpreted in different ways. It is possible to map a path through life, find a way through a forest, traverse a desert or chart a sense of self and guide one's relationship to the natural world. Australia's First Nations mapped their world in terms of a spiritual and environmental relationship to country and an animate sense of being. The maps in European heads often explored ways to obtain wealth from the Australian earth. Many Maps traces both misunderstandings, and sometimes sensitive understandings of land and culture in a continent that we both inhabit. Bill Bunbury graduated with an honours degree from Durham University in 1963 and emigrated to WA that same year. He has won several awards for his Social History Radio features, including the UN Australia Peace Prize, the New York Radio Festival Gold medal and the NSW Premier's Media Prize. Since 2007, Bill has worked with Community Arts WA, producing radio features where Noongar communities tell their own histories. He now works part-time at Murdoch University. In 2016, he was awarded an Order of Australia for his services to Broadcasting and Aboriginal communities. Jenny Bunbury attended Durham University and graduated with BA (Hons) in Modern History. Jenny followed Bill to Australia and in 1975 Jenny joined the WA Public Service where she worked as a policy officer and manager for 30 years in various agencies including Health, Consumer Affairs and Transport. She also managed regional services for a number of agencies working on Aboriginal-Wadjela relations in rural and regional WA.

Book The Man Behind the Maps

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dale Ulland
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019-08
  • ISBN : 9781733875905
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The Man Behind the Maps written by Dale Ulland and published by . This book was released on 2019-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Australia in Maps

    Book Details:
  • Author : National Library of Australia
  • Publisher : National Library Australia
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9780642276353
  • Pages : 164 pages

Download or read book Australia in Maps written by National Library of Australia and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 2007 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richly illustrated with exquisite manuscript maps and editions from celebrated European cartographic publishers of 17th century to familiar contemporary products such as tourist maps. Discover the stories behind these maps, the technological changes in map making and changes in human knowledge and representation of the world.

Book The Mapping of Terra Australis

Download or read book The Mapping of Terra Australis written by Robert Clancy and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to early printed maps of Australia, Antarctica and the South Pacific.

Book Mapping Our World

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter Barber
  • Publisher : National Library of Australia
  • Release : 2013-11-01
  • ISBN : 0642278091
  • Pages : 291 pages

Download or read book Mapping Our World written by Peter Barber and published by National Library of Australia. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cover image, World Map by Fra Mauro c. 1450, is one of the most important and famous maps of all time. This monumental map of the world was created by the monk Fra Mauro in his monastery on the island of San Michele in the Venetian lagoon. Now the centrepiece of the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in St Marc’s Square in Venice, the map in its nearly 600-year history has never left Venice – until now. Renowned for its sheer size - over 2.3 metres square - and stunning colours, the map was made at a time of transition between the medieval world view and new knowledge uncovered by the great voyages of discovery. Brilliantly painted and illuminated on sheets of oxhide, the sphere of the Earth is surrounded by the sphere of the Ocean in the ancient way. Yet Fra Mauro included the latest information on exploration by Portuguese and Arab navigators. Commissioned by King Afonso V of Portugal, it is the last of the great medieval world maps to inspire navigators in the Age of Discovery to explore beyond the Indian Ocean.

Book Road Atlas of Australia 5th Ed

Download or read book Road Atlas of Australia 5th Ed written by UBD Gregory's and published by UBD-Gregory's. This book was released on 2018-06 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This latest edition of the Road Atlas of Australia features Australia-wide coverage, with more than 140 maps included. You'll find holiday region maps, inter-city route maps, capital city CBD and suburban maps. Other features include extensive distance charts, national park charts showing facilities, comprehensive maps for 48 touring regions, useful touring information and lists of major attractions for all capital cities and touring regions, plus a wealth of colour photographs and a comprehensive index. With spiral binding and a plastic jacket, this is the ideal mapping product to keep in your car.

Book Australian Alps Walking Track

Download or read book Australian Alps Walking Track written by John Chapman and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the 660 km walking track from Walhalla near Melbourne to the outskirts of Canberra. An all colour book, it includes 51 colour topographic maps, gradient profiles and many sidetrips and alternative tracks.

Book The Boy Who Loved Maps

Download or read book The Boy Who Loved Maps written by Kari Allen and published by Anne Schwartz Books. This book was released on 2022-07-12 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This enchanting picture book about a map-making boy who is stumped when a girl asks him for a map of the "perfect place" helps readers appreciate the charms of their own neighborhood--and even shows them how to make a map of it! The Mapmaker loves maps. He loves to collect them, to study them, and most of all, he loves to make them. But when a girl asks for a map of a perfect place, the Mapmaker is perplexed. She wants a map to a toes-in-the-sand-warm, X-marks-the-spot-place filled with treasures, where it smells like her birthday and she can zip around like a dragonfly. Surely, a place that is all of these things can't exist...can it? Well, after a fun-filled day of exploring the neighborhood, the Mapmaker will discover that the perfect place--home--has been right in front of him all along. Here is a picture book, as creative as it is charming, that celebrates home, and is a gentle reminder to look around and appreciate what surrounds you.

Book The Aiatsis Map of Indigenous Australia

Download or read book The Aiatsis Map of Indigenous Australia written by David Horton and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The highly popular AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia is now available in a compact, portable A3 size. Available flat or folded (packaged in a handy cellophane bag ) it s the perfect take-home product for tourists and anyone interested in the diversity of our first nations peoples. The handy desk size also makes it an ideal resource for individual student use. For tens of thousands of years, the First Australians have occupied this continent as many different nations with diverse cultural relationships linking them to their own particular lands. The ancestral creative beings left languages on country, along with the first peoples and their cultures. More than 200 distinct languages, and countless dialects of them, were in use when European colonization began. While people in some communities continue to speak their own languages, many others are seeking to record and revive threatened ones. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples retain their connection to their traditional lands regardless of where they live. Using published resources available from 1988-1994, the map represents the remarkable diversity of language or nation groups of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of Australia. The map was produced before native title legislation and is not suitable for use in native title or other land claims."

Book The Kimberley Atlas and Guide

Download or read book The Kimberley Atlas and Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-13 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Melbourne and Region Map

Download or read book Melbourne and Region Map written by Hema Maps (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Great Race

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Hill
  • Publisher : Little, Brown Book Group
  • Release : 2014-07-03
  • ISBN : 1408705745
  • Pages : 318 pages

Download or read book The Great Race written by David Hill and published by Little, Brown Book Group. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the afternoon of 8 April 1802, in the remote southern ocean, two explorers had a remarkable chance encounter. Englishman Matthew Flinders and Frenchman Nicolas Baudin had been sent by their governments on the same quest: to explore the uncharted coast of the great south land and find out whether the west and east coasts, four thousand kilometres apart, were part of the same island. And so began the race to compile the definitive map of Australia. These men's journeys were the culmination of two hundred years of exploration of the region by the Dutch - most famously Abel Tasman - the Portuguese, the Spanish and by Englishmen such as the colourful pirate William Dampier and, of course, James Cook. The three-year voyages of Baudin and Flinders would see them endure terrible hardships in the spirit of discovery. They suffered scurvy and heat exhaustion, and Flinders was shipwrecked and imprisoned - always knowing he was competing with the French to produce the first map of this mysterious continent. Written from diaries and other first-hand accounts, this is the thrilling story of men whose drawings recorded countless previously unknown species and turned mythical creatures into real ones, and whose skill and determination enabled Terra Australis Incognita to become Australia.

Book Australia Large Map 12ed

Download or read book Australia Large Map 12ed written by Hema and published by . This book was released on 2021-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ready to go Super Book of Outline Maps

Download or read book Ready to go Super Book of Outline Maps written by Scholastic, Inc. Staff and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2000 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 101 Reproducible outline maps of the continents, countries of the world, the 50 states, and more.

Book The Year the Maps Changed

Download or read book The Year the Maps Changed written by Danielle Binks and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wolf Hollow meets The Thing About Jellyfish in Danielle Binks’s debut middle grade novel set in 1999, where a twelve-year-old girl grapples with the meaning of home and family amidst a refugee crisis that has divided her town. "Timeless and beautiful, and it deserves to be read by people of all ages." —Printz Award-winning author Melina Marchetta If you asked eleven-year-old Fred to draw a map of her family, it would be a bit confusing. Her birth father was never in the picture, her mom died years ago, and her stepfather, Luca, is now expecting a baby with his new girlfriend. According to Fred’s teacher, maps don’t always give the full picture of our history, but more and more it feels like Fred’s family is redrawing the line of their story . . . and Fred is feeling left off the map. Soon after learning about the baby, Fred hears that the town will be taking in hundreds of refugees seeking safety from a war-torn Kosovo. Some people in town, like Luca, think it’s great and want to help. Others, however, feel differently, causing friction within the community. Fred, who has been trying to navigate her own feelings of displacement, ends up befriending a few refugees. But what starts as a few friendly words in Albanian will soon change their lives forever, not to mention completely redrawing Fred’s personal map of friends, family, and home, and community.

Book Touring Atlas of Australia 29th Ed

Download or read book Touring Atlas of Australia 29th Ed written by UBD Gregory's and published by UBD-Gregory's. This book was released on 2021-06-02 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether heading off on a weekend getaway or travelling anywhere throughout this vast country, this is the go-to atlas, an essential for any Australian road trip. With sales of over a million copies, the Touring Atlas of Australia is a consistent performer and is the best large-format road atlas in the country. This 29th edition has been completely revised, incorporating many more touring-related features than ever before. There are now over 1700 recommended rest areas highlighted on the maps, an increase of over 200 sites from the last edition. All rest areas have been categorised to show the reader where there are toilet facilities and free camping, as well as recommended low-cost camping areas. The maps also show fuel availability locations and visitor information centres. Public toilet locations are on capital city maps.

Book South Australia  Map

Download or read book South Australia Map written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: