Download or read book Capturing Time written by Edwin Barnard and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 2012 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Panoramas, whether painted or photographed, were the nineteenth-century equivalent of IMAX or Google maps. These wide-angled views of landscapes and cities fascinated viewers, who had never before seen such far-reaching perspectives on the world around them. Based on the National Library of Australia¿s extensive collections, Capturing Time: Panoramas of Old Australia looks back on our nation through the magic of panoramas to the streets of Sydney when it was the convict capital, to the gold rushes of Melbourne and to Perth, struggling to establish a toehold on the continent¿s western frontier. Dating from 1810 to the 1920s, the paintings and photographs include historic views of all of Australia¿s capital cities, plus some country towns. Not only can readers imagine what it might have been like to stand on Sydney¿s Observatory Hill in 1820, for example, but also what it would have been like to stand there with a companion able to point out landmarks and tell the sorts of interesting stories that only locals know.

Download or read book Caging the Rainbow written by Francesca Merlan and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1998-05-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caging the Rainbow explores the lives of Aborigines in the small regional town of Katherine, Northern Territory, Australia. Francesca Merlan combines ethnography and theory to grapple with issues surrounding the debate about the authenticity of contemporary cultural activity. Throughout, the vulnerability of Fourth World peoples to others' representations of them and the ethical problems this poses are kept in view.

Download or read book Indigenous Biography and Autobiography written by Peter Read and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this absorbing collection of papers Aboriginal, Maori, Dalit and western scholars discuss and analyse the difficulties they have faced in writing Indigenous biographies and autobiographies. The issues range from balancing the demands of western and non-western scholarship, through writing about a family that refuses to acknowledge its identity, to considering a community demand not to write anything at all. The collection also presents some state-of-the-art issues in teaching Indigenous Studies based on auto/biography in Austria, Spain and Italy.

Download or read book From Humpy to Homestead written by Pearl Ogden and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personal account of life in the Northern Territory pastoral industry; Wardaman mythological sites and contact history; position of Aboriginal station workers - Wave Hill strike; inter-racial relations, removal of children, adoption; racial prejudice; Hodgson Downs Community Incorporated; Pastoral properties - Manbulloo, Wave Hill, Delamere, Willeroo, Hodgson Downs.

Download or read book Transgressions written by Ingereth Macfarlane and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume brings together an innovative set of readings of complex interactions between Australian Aboriginal people and colonisers. It has its origins in 2003 when Mark Hannah, then a doctoral student in the Centre for Cross Cultural Research at The Australian National University, invited a group of early career scholars to meet in Canberra. They brought their diverse social science and humanities backgrounds to the uncovering of creative Indigenous responses to the colonial encounter in Australia, and fresh ways of writing about these. Their studies were focused in diverse parts of Australia and on different time periods, but shared a common interest in developing critical re-assessments of Australian colonial and anti-colonial histories. Their meeting encouraged face-to-face exchanges that could short-circuit the isolation often experienced by cross-disciplinary, original scholars. It also emphasised writerly aspects of creative thinking, promoting the portrayal of character, alternative prose styles and inventive narrative forms. The authors' responses to these invitations have flavoured the commissioned papers presented here. The critical and creative drives which inform them shines out in their writing. They are exciting and sometimes surprising in the angles they take, and the cross-overs of genre or subject that they offer."--Provided by publisher.

Download or read book On the Wallaby Track written by Laine Cunningham and published by Sun Dogs Creations. This book was released on 2017-01-05 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Hidden Histories written by Deborah Bird Rose and published by Aboriginal Studies Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with stories of massacres and murders, of working life on cattle stations, of friendships and foes, of bureaucratic machinations, and the individual struggles of Aboriginal Australians, this book unleashes the concealed and hidden past.

Download or read book Breakaway House written by Arthur W. Upfield and published by ETT Imprint. This book was released on 2018-09-01 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harry Tremayne, a policeman, goes to an isolated valley in the remote Murchison region of Western Australia to find his brother - who vanished a month earlier while investigating the murder of a police detective. Do the gold smugglers at Breakaway House hold the answers to the mystery? First published as a serial in the Perth Daily News in 1932, the real setting for the book is Mt Magnet, about 150k north of Perth, deep in gold country. 'It is somewhat less intense and less effective than the books in the Bony series, but it is successful as an early effort of Upfield's treatment of the Australian outback.' - Ray Browne, The Spirit of Australia

Download or read book A Windfall Homestead written by Seedy Buckberry and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-11-18 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In volume one of Henry Buckberry's stories (Get Poor Now, Avoid the Rush), we followed Henry from his early childhood in central North Dakota to the dark, dangerous woods of northern Wisconsin. Get Poor Now concluded in September of 1933, with Henry about to survey the devastation of a forest fire that almost burned up his log shack. A Windfall Homestead takes us into the next two decades of Henry's productive, energetic life, as he logs and hunts, clears land for farming, marries, has children, builds a new barn and house from windfall lumber. Henry's life exemplifies the fate of an essentially preindustrial rural culture about to be overwhelmed by post-World War II technology with its comprehensive commercial "culture" extruded by fossil fuel affluence. Henry's was not so much the "greatest" generation as it was the last unself-conscious rural subsistence generation of European heritage. These stories, all told in Henry's voice, were taken down shortly before Henry's death in 2009 by Henry's son Charles Darwin Buckberry, also known as C. D. or Seedy Buckberry. Seedy claims these stories are accurate and true. Readers are advised to suspend their civilized disbelief.

Download or read book Holstein Friesian Herd book written by Holstein-Friesian Association of America and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 1874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Put the Billy On written by Ann Jones and published by Interactive Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2008 IP Picks Best Creative Non-fiction Award. A nostalgic insight into what it was like to grow up in Australia in the 1930s and 40s, mixed with undertones of delightful humour and fading innocence. Historical events, such as the lead up to World War II, are artfully compared to the tensions in the speaker's own family life. Jones invites us to reflect on how far we've come, and the precious things that may have been lost on the way.

Download or read book Gunnedah Hero written by Clancy Tucker and published by Morris Publishing Australia. This book was released on 2011 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 14 year-old Gunnie Danson spends the weekend at Wiralee Station, a cattle station that has been in the family since 1848. His late grandfather has left him a box containing a manuscript and a letter that is not to be opened until after Gunnie has read the entire story.

Download or read book Put the Billy on written by and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Anthology of Australian Aboriginal Literature written by Anita Heiss and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2014-11-30 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a political system that renders them largely voiceless, Australia's Aboriginal people have used the written word as a powerful tool for over two hundred years. Anthology of Australian Aboriginal Literature presents a rich panorama of Aboriginal culture, history, and life through the writings of some of the great Australian Aboriginal authors. From Bennelong's 1796 letter to contemporary writing, Anita Heiss and Peter Minter have selected works that represent the range and depth of Aboriginal writing in English. Journalism, petitions, and political letters from both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are brought together with major works of poetry, prose, and drama from the mid-twentieth century onward. These works voice not only the ongoing suffering of dispossession but the resilience of Australia's Aboriginal people, their hope and joy. Presenting some of the best, most distinctive writing produced in Australia, this groundbreaking anthology will captivate anyone interested in Aboriginal writing and culture.

Download or read book Minutes and Votes and Proceedings of the Parliament with Papers Presented to Both Houses written by Western Australia. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 1680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: