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Book First Visitors to Bass Strait

Download or read book First Visitors to Bass Strait written by John Stanley Cumpston and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Furneaux Group  Bass Strait

Download or read book The Furneaux Group Bass Strait written by John S. Cumpston and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Furneaux Group Bass Strait  First Visitors 1797 1810

Download or read book The Furneaux Group Bass Strait First Visitors 1797 1810 written by John Stanley Cumpston and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Australian Explorers by Sea  Land  and Air  1788 1988

Download or read book Australian Explorers by Sea Land and Air 1788 1988 written by Ian Francis McLaren and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Early Days in Bass Strait

Download or read book The Early Days in Bass Strait written by Ken D. Gott and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The A to Z of the Discovery and Exploration of Australia

Download or read book The A to Z of the Discovery and Exploration of Australia written by Alan Day and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-06-19 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging reference examines the history of, the search for, and the discovery of Australia, taking full account of the evidence for and the speculation surrounding possible earlier contacts by the Ancient Egyptians, Arabs, and Chinese seamen. Day brings the expeditions to life, expressing the desires that drove great sea captains deeper into turbulent waters searching for caches of spice, silks, and precious metals. Covers a wide variety of topics, including _ Seamen from eight nations _ The recovery of storm wrecked ships _ Diplomatic treaties _ Priority of discovery disputes _ Military and civil explorers and surveyors _ Topographical features _ Geographical terms and places _ Rivers and river system

Book The Archaeology and Anthropology of Landscape

Download or read book The Archaeology and Anthropology of Landscape written by Robert Layton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Archaeology and Anthropology of Landscape contributes to the development of theory in archaeology and anthropology, provides new and varied case studies of landscape and environment from five continents, and raises important policy issues concerning development and the management of heritage.

Book Early Tasmania

Download or read book Early Tasmania written by James Backhouse Walker and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mammals in the Seas

    Book Details:
  • Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Working Party on Marine Mammals
  • Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
  • Release : 1978
  • ISBN : 9789251005149
  • Pages : 556 pages

Download or read book Mammals in the Seas written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Working Party on Marine Mammals and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 1978 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The War Against the Seals

Download or read book The War Against the Seals written by Briton Cooper Busch and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1987 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concentrates on the fur seals of the Bering Sea and the harp seals of the Newfoundland hunt. Reveals the consequences of an industry's killing of more than 50,000,000 seals in a century and a half.

Book Names of Bass Strait

Download or read book Names of Bass Strait written by Peter Dean Gardner and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales  Volume 2

Download or read book An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales Volume 2 written by David Collins and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 19?? with total page 1475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Taming the Great South Land

    Book Details:
  • Author : William J Lines
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1991-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780520078307
  • Pages : 380 pages

Download or read book Taming the Great South Land written by William J Lines and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taming the Great South Land is the first full-length landscape history of an entire continent occupied by one nation. It is also, in William Lines's telling, a brutal and controversial story. Examining the ways European society rapidly, radically transformed Australia's physical and human landscapes, the author writes candidly of repeated environmental devastation--from the early slaughter of seals and whales to the destructive spread of sheep, through gold rushes and land settlement to British nuclear tests and the modern mining and timber industries. Lines shows how Enlightenment ideas of progress, economic growth, and development were reconstructed on Australian soil, and how the promise of the conquest of nature became a mockery in fact, resulting in the mass dislocation and destruction of indigenous populations. This shocking narrative, thoroughly researched and accessibly written, combines environmental, social, and political history to hard-hitting effect. Taming the Great South Land is the first full-length landscape history of an entire continent occupied by one nation. It is also, in William Lines's telling, a brutal and controversial story. Examining the ways European society rapidly, radically transformed Australia's physical and human landscapes, the author writes candidly of repeated environmental devastation--from the early slaughter of seals and whales to the destructive spread of sheep, through gold rushes and land settlement to British nuclear tests and the modern mining and timber industries. Lines shows how Enlightenment ideas of progress, economic growth, and development were reconstructed on Australian soil, and how the promise of the conquest of nature became a mockery in fact, resulting in the mass dislocation and destruction of indigenous populations. This shocking narrative, thoroughly researched and accessibly written, combines environmental, social, and political history to hard-hitting effect.

Book Islandscapes and Tourism

Download or read book Islandscapes and Tourism written by Joseph M Cheer and published by CABI. This book was released on 2023-04-07 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The links between islands and tourism, as sights of pleasure is embodied in the touristification of sun, sand and sea. Islandscapes are central to the tourist imaginaries that shape islands as touristified places - curated, designed and commodified for both mass tourism and more niche inclined versions. Yet while islands are parlayed for touristic pleasure seekers, islands are also home to longstanding communities that have variously battled with the tyranny of distance from metropolitan centres, as well as the everyday challenges of climate change effects, and benefitted from their isolation from modern-day pressures. This anthology of articles previously published in the journal Shima explores emergent themes that describe how island peoples adapt and respond in localised cultural islandscapes as a consequence of tourism expansion. It is aimed at researchers in island studies, tourism, sustainability, human geography, cultural studies, sociology and anthropology. The anthology will also be of interest to those with an abiding interest in the trajectories of islands and their peoples, particularly where tourism has come to shape islandscapes.

Book Bass Strait  Australia s Last Frontier

Download or read book Bass Strait Australia s Last Frontier written by Stephen Murray-Smith and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains Bass Strait in prehistory, by Rhys Jones, and Robinsons adventures in Bass Strait, by N.J.B. Plomley, which have been annotated separately.

Book Roving Mariners

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lynette Russell
  • Publisher : State University of New York Press
  • Release : 2012-11-01
  • ISBN : 1438444257
  • Pages : 242 pages

Download or read book Roving Mariners written by Lynette Russell and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most Australian Aboriginal people, the impact of colonialism was blunt—dispossession, dislocation, disease, murder, and missionization. Yet there is another story of Australian history that has remained untold, a story of enterprise and entrepreneurship, of Aboriginal people seizing the opportunity to profit from life at sea as whalers and sealers. In some cases participation was voluntary; in others it was more invidious and involved kidnapping and trade in women. In many cases, the individuals maintained and exercised a degree of personal autonomy and agency within their new circumstances. This book explores some of their lives and adventures by analyzing archival records of maritime industry, captains' logs, ships' records, and the journals of the sailors themselves, among other artifacts. Much of what is known about this period comes from the writings of Herman Melville, and in this book Melville's whaling novels act as a prism through which relations aboard ships are understood. Drawing on both history and literature, Roving Mariners provides a comprehensive history of Australian Aboriginal whaling and sealing.

Book Extinct Birds

    Book Details:
  • Author : Julian P. Hume
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2017-08-24
  • ISBN : 1472937457
  • Pages : 581 pages

Download or read book Extinct Birds written by Julian P. Hume and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-24 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive review of the hundreds of bird species that have become extinct over the last 1,000 years of habitat degradation, over-hunting and rat introduction. Extinct Birds has become the standard text on this subject, covering both familiar icons of extinction as well as more obscure birds, some known from just one specimen or from travellers' tales. This second edition is expanded to include dozens of new species, as more are constantly added to the list, either through extinction or through new subfossil discoveries. The book is the result of decades of research into literature and museum drawers, as well as caves and subfossil deposits, which often reveal birds long-gone that disappeared without ever being recorded by scientists while they lived. From Great Auks, Carolina Parakeets and Dodos to the amazing yet almost completely vanished bird radiations of Hawaii and New Zealand via rafts of extinction in the Pacific and elsewhere, this book is both a sumptuous reference and astounding testament to humanity's devastating impact on wildlife.