Download or read book Australian Backyard Explorer written by Peter Macinnis and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 2009 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australian Backyard Explorer has been recognised on the 2011 White Ravens list for international children's and youth literature. Produced each year by the International Youth Library in Germany, the White Ravens recognise 'books of international interest that deserve a wider reception on account of their universal theme' or 'their exceptional and often innovative artistic and literary style and design'. Australian Backyard Explorer tells the stories of many intrepid individuals who explored the Australian continent in the first 120 years of European settlement. It includes little known explorers as well as the old favourites, such as James Cook, Edward John Eyre, Robert Oe(tm)Hara Burke and William John Wills. There are tales not only of tragedy, conflict and death, but also of loyalty, amazing perseverance and wonder over the new animals and landscapes they encountered.
Download or read book Matthew Flinders Maritime Explorer of Australia written by Kenneth Morgan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-24 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a thoroughly researched biography of the naval career of Matthew Flinders, with particular emphasis on his importance for the maritime discovery of Australia. Sailing in the wake of the 18th-century voyages of exploration by Captain Cook and others, Flinders was the first naval commander to circumnavigate Australia's coastline. He contributed more to the mapping and naming of places in Australia than virtually any other single person. His voyage to Australia on H.M.S. Investigator expanded the scope of imperial, geographical and scientific knowledge. This biography places Flinders's career within the context of Pacific exploration and the early white settlement of Australia. Flinders's connections with other explorers, his use of patronage, the dissemination of his findings, and his posthumous reputation are also discussed in what is an important new scholarly work in the field.
Download or read book Explorer Travellers and Adventure Tourism written by Jennifer Laing and published by Channel View Publications. This book was released on 2014-08-04 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the nexus between exploring and tourism and argues that exploration travel – based heavily on explorer narratives and the promises of personal challenges and change – is a major trend in future tourism. In particular, it analyses how romanticised myths of explorers form a foundation for how modern day tourists view travel and themselves. Its scope ranges from the 'Golden Age' of imperial explorers in the 19th and early 20th centuries, through the growth of adventure and extreme tourism, to possible future trends including space travel. The volume should appeal to researchers and students across a variety of disciplines, including tourism studies, sociology, geography and history.
Download or read book DK Eyewitness Books Explorer written by Rupert Matthews and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-08-20 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of exploration - from early expeditions to high-tech trips into space - is presented in vivid visual detail in this intriguing guide. DK Eyewitness Books: Explorer takes a look at the perilous and exciting worlds of explorers, sharing stunning real-life photographs of famous explorers' equipment and personal possessions, as well as the objects they found. Readers will see arrows shot into Livingston's boat, gold found by Spanish conquistadors, and insect specimens brought back by naturalist explorers. As they learn how the earliest sailors navigated, who first crossed the Australian continent, what the Egyptians found in the legendary "Land of the Gods," and more, readers will gain an understanding of the extraordinary explorations that helped shape our world today.
Download or read book Ocean Explorer written by Greg Pyers and published by Capstone Classroom. This book was released on 2004-08 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simple text and pictures introduce the ocean habitat, plants and animals.
Download or read book Last Explorer written by Simon Nasht and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of The Ice Master and Endurance, here is the incredible story of the first truly modern explorer, whose death-defying adventures and uncommon modesty make this book itself an extraordinary discovery. Hubert Wilkins was the most successful explorer in history--no one saw with his own eyes more undiscovered land and sea. Largely self-taught, Wilkins became a celebrated newsreel cameraman in the early 1900s, as well as a reporter, pilot, spy, war hero, scientist, and adventurer, capturing in his lens war and famine, cheating death repeatedly, meeting world leaders like Lenin and Stalin, and circling the globe on a zeppelin. Apprenticing with the greats of polar exploration, including Shackleton in the Antarctic, Wilkins recognized the importance of new technologies such as the airplane and submarine. He helped map the Canadian Arctic and plumbed the ocean depths from the icecap. A pioneer in the truest sense of the word, he became the first man to fly across the North Pole, which won him a knighthood; the first to fly to the Antarctic and discover land there by airpla≠ and the first to take a submarine under the Arctic ice. Grasping the link between the poles and changing global weather, Wilkins was a visionary in weather forecasting and the study of global warming. A true hero of the earth, he changed the way we look at our world.
Download or read book Explorer XXIX written by and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Explorer s Guide Bahamas A Great Destination Explorer s Great Destinations written by Chelle Koster-Walton and published by The Countryman Press. This book was released on 2010-10-18 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the best beaches, restaurants, casinos and shopping—and everything else—that the Bahamas has to offer. Explorer's Guide The Bahamas: A Great Destination treads confidently where other guidebooks stop short: it goes past the beaches, casinos, and duty-free shops to bring you into ancestral lands, fishing settlements, goat farms, conch shacks, theaters, and art galleries. The Bahamas’ clear waters and multihued coral reefs are gifts just waiting to be unwrapped.
Download or read book Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography written by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gareth s Guide to Becoming a Deep Sea Explorer written by Barbara M. Linde and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2018-07-15 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientists maintain that we've only explored 5 percent of Earth's oceans. These incredible expanses contain so many resources that many of us take for granted. Readers of this adventurous guide will be eager to find out how they can be explorers of Earth's final frontier. Whether they're seeking treasure in a wreck or searching for yet-unknown sea creatures, they'll learn what they need to do to prepare for a life in the water. Sidebars and fact boxes highlight information about real-life deep-sea explorers, while vivid photographs capture some truly captivating scenes of the undersea world.
Download or read book Comprehensive World Explorer Atlas written by and published by Laxmi Publications. This book was released on with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life of Charles Sturt Sometime Capt 39th Regt and Australian Explorer written by Mrs. Napier George Sturt and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Marine Research written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 1200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Literary World written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book S Chand s Atlas The World Explorer written by Anjali Saxena & N.K. Chowdhry and published by S. Chand Publishing. This book was released on with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The revised edition of S Chand Atlas The World Explorer includes easy-tounderstand maps and caters to the curriculum of all the major schools. It serves as a ready reference for students, teachers, researchers and is also appropriate for libraries and general readers.
Download or read book The New Standard History of the World written by L. Brent Vaughan and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Standard History of the World written by John Herbert Clifford and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
