EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

Book Murder on the Rabbit Proof Fence

Download or read book Murder on the Rabbit Proof Fence written by Terry Walker and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the murder of Louis J. Carron also known as Leslie George Brown by Snowy Rowles (real name John Thomas Smith) using a method described by the writer Arthur Upfield who was in the process of writing his novel The Sands of Windee. Details the police investigation, the evidence, the trial and its aftermath. Snowy Rowles was hanged.

Book Stories of the Rabbit Proof Fence

Download or read book Stories of the Rabbit Proof Fence written by Rachel Dalais and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-28 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: School reader about the construction and maintenance of the Rabbit Proof Fence of WA. Stories of murder and Stolen Generation along the fence.

Book Follow the Rabbit Proof Fence

Download or read book Follow the Rabbit Proof Fence written by Doris Pilkington and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extraordinary story of courage and faith is based on the actual experiences of three girls who fled from the repressive life of Moore River Native Settlement, following along the rabbit-proof fence back to their homelands. Assimilationist policy dictated that these girls be taken from their kin and their homes in order to be made white. Settlement life was unbearable with its chains and padlocks, barred windows, hard cold beds, and horrible food. Solitary confinement was doled out as regular punishment. The girls were not even allowed to speak their language. Of all the journeys made since white people set foot on Australian soil, the journey made by these girls born of Aboriginal mothers and white fathers speaks something to everyone.

Book The Murchison Murders

    Book Details:
  • Author : Arthur W. Upfield
  • Publisher : ETT Imprint
  • Release : 2018-09-01
  • ISBN : 1925416135
  • Pages : 48 pages

Download or read book The Murchison Murders written by Arthur W. Upfield and published by ETT Imprint. This book was released on 2018-09-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Somewhere within Arthur Upfield's travelling dray were the clues to uncovering three acts of murder involving the grifter, Snowy Rowles. Once Upfield had published his crime thriller, The Sands of Windee, West Australian police gave chase, starting with the esteemed author of Bony...

Book The Fierce Country

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stephen Orr
  • Publisher : Wakefield Press
  • Release : 2018-06-28
  • ISBN : 1743055749
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book The Fierce Country written by Stephen Orr and published by Wakefield Press. This book was released on 2018-06-28 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fierce Country holds no malice, but neither pity. It just sits, and bakes, and waits. We do the rest. We provoke it when we mine above its aquifers. Weaken it, and ourselves, when we leave mountains of asbestos to blow away in the wind. Misunderstand it when we see it as nothing more than a resource. Resent it when it takes our children. The open spaces and isolated places outside Australia's cities have unsettled us from first European settlement to today - often with very good reason. In this nail-biting book combining the notorious and little-known, acclaimed author Stephen Orr has collected true stories that have shaped and continue to haunt the Australian psyche: mysteries, disappearances, mistreatment and murder. Fatal conflicts between an Aboriginal tracker and the police employers hunting his community. An itinerant conman picking up tips for the perfect murder from a famous novelist around a campfire on the Rabbit-Proof Fence. And that fateful day when Peter Falconio pulled over beside a desert highway. Together these tales chart an undercurrent of shifting cultural tensions as Australians find, lose and question who we are.

Book Murder Down Under

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anthony Ferguson
  • Publisher : McFarland
  • Release : 2021-02-03
  • ISBN : 1476682844
  • Pages : 214 pages

Download or read book Murder Down Under written by Anthony Ferguson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-02-03 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Notorious, numerous and varied, serial murderers from Australia have an eclectic record of crimes, methods and trademarks. Scrutinizing these murderers at length, this book aims to identify characteristics exclusive to Australian serial killers, connecting the crimes with the continent's geography, culture and social structure. Featured are murderers like the "Granny Killer" John Wayne Glover, William "The Sydney Mutilator" McDonald and "Backpacker Killer" Ivan Milat. Also covered are well-known events like the Snowtown Murders and killer couples like David and Catherine Birnie. Unique in the true crime genre, this book studies fictional Australian murderer Mick Taylor to examine how pop culture portrayals develop the distinct psychology of killers from "down under."

Book Follow the Rabbit Proof Fence

    Book Details:
  • Author : Doris Pilkington Garimara
  • Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
  • Release : 2023-05-30
  • ISBN : 0702267864
  • Pages : 134 pages

Download or read book Follow the Rabbit Proof Fence written by Doris Pilkington Garimara and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2023-05-30 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Stolen Generations story of astounding courage: three Aboriginal girls, taken from their mothers, escape barefoot back to their beloved homeland in East Pilbara. This is the true account of Nugi Garimara's mother, Molly, made legendary by the film Rabbit-Proof Fence. In 1931 Molly led her two sisters on an extraordinary 1600-kilometre walk across remote Western Australia. Aged eight, eleven and fourteen, they escaped the confinement of a government institution for Aboriginal children removed from their families. Barefoot, without provisions or maps, tracked by Native Police and search planes, the girls followed the rabbit-proof fence, knowing it would lead them home. Their journey – longer than many of the celebrated treks of recognised explorers – reveals a past more cruel than we could ever imagine.

Book From Muskeg to Murder

Download or read book From Muskeg to Murder written by Andrew F. Maksymchuk and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2008-11-07 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From MUSKEG to MURDER begins by chronicling the epic struggles and enormous challenges of the author's ancestors as they struggled to scrounge a living under the oppressive regime of the Tzar in 19th Century Ukraine. They finally fled their desperate situation, eventually settling in the free and serene environs of Canada. As a boy in rural British Columbia in the mid 20th Century, Andrew Maksymchuk is enthralled by the stories of his immigrant family's escape from oppression, and he dreams of fighting injustice. That dream becomes reality when, at 21, he is initiated into the Ontario Provincial Police Force. Sent to serve in remote Northwestern Ontario, he learns his craft in its mining centres, pulp and paper industry communities, Indian reservations, native settlements and boom towns. From MUSKEG to MURDER follows "Maks" as he tracks criminals on foot across frozen muskeg, by canoe and speedboat along breathtaking waterways, by rail along the CNR's ribbons of steel, and by airplane above the vastness of the Canadian Shield. In makeshift courtrooms, primitive cabins and isolated outposts, he overcomes limited training, deficient supervision, poor transportation and communication resources and the clash of cultures with ingenuity, dedication and humour. The author's willingness to share the most painful and intimate aspects of his life in a candid and unvarnished fashion serves to forge a solid bond with the reader. Family, friends, community and duty become entwined against a backdrop of a changing Canada as Maks shares his experiences and insights into the unique place of the OPP in Canadian police service.

Book Up and Down Australia Again

Download or read book Up and Down Australia Again written by Arthur W. Upfield and published by ETT Imprint. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur William Upfield is well known as the creator of Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte (Bony) who features in 29 crime detection novels, most set in the Australian outback. It is not well known that he also wrote about 250 short stories and articles, drawing on his experiences in the bush between 1911 and 1931. Up and Down Australia Again is the third published collection of Upfield's short works. Kees de Hoog has selected 34 short stories, a radio play and the first five chapters for an unfinished Bony novel, some items being published for the first time. There are stories based on Upfield's personal experience as a soldier in World War One, stories set in the Australian outback, and tales of Aboriginals and immigrants crossing paths during the years of European settlement and expansion.

Book When Bony Was There  A Chronology of the Life and Career of Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte

Download or read book When Bony Was There A Chronology of the Life and Career of Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte written by Kees de Hoog and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using facts and clues gleaned from the Bony stories by Arthur Upfield, Kees de Hoog has compiled a chronology of the personal life events and professional assignments of Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte. This booklet uncovers the evidence and explains how it was pieced together to reveal the dates and other details. The conclusions are presented with the findings of similar research by others into the location of each Bony novel. Woven together they sketch the outline of the life, career and travels of the internationally acclaimed fictional detective.

Book Investigating Arthur Upfield

Download or read book Investigating Arthur Upfield written by Carol Hetherington and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-18 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur Upfield created Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte (Bony) who features in twenty-nine novels written from the 1920s to the the 1960s, mostly set in the Australian Outback. He was the first Australian professional writer of crime detection novels. Upfield arrived in Australia from England on 4 November 1911, and this collection of twenty-two critical essays by academics and scholars has been published to celebrate the centenary of his arrival. The essays were all written after Upfield’s death in 1964 and provide a wide range of responses to his fiction. The contributors, from Australia, Europe and the United States, include journalist Pamela Ruskin who was Upfield’s agent for fifteen years, anthropologists, literary scholars, pioneers in the academic study of popular culture such as John G. Cawelti and Ray B. Browne, and novelists Tony Hillerman and Mudrooroo whose own works have been inspired by Upfield’s. The collection sheds light on the extent and nature of critical responses to Upfield over time, demonstrates the type of recognition he has received and highlights the way in which different preoccupations and critical trends have dealt with his work. The essays provide the basis for an assessment of Upfield’s place not only in the international annals of crime fiction but also in the literary and cultural history of Australia.

Book Packing Death in Australian Literature

Download or read book Packing Death in Australian Literature written by Iris Ralph and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-16 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packing Death in Australian Literature: Ecocides and Eco-Sides addresses Australian Literature from ecocritical, animal studies, plant studies, indigenous studies, and posthumanist critical perspectives. The book’s main purpose is twofold: to bring more sustained attention to environmental, vegetal, and animal rights issues, past and present, and to do that from within the discipline of literary studies. Literary studies in Australia continue to reflect disinterest or not enough interest in critical engagements with the subjects of Australia’s oldest extant environments and other beings beside humans. Packing Death in Australian Literature: Ecocides and Eco-Sides foregrounds the vegetal and nonhuman animal populations and contours of Australian Literature. Critical studies relied on in Packing Death in Australian Literature: Ecocides and Eco-Sides include books by CA. Cranston and Robert Zeller, Simon C. Estok, Bill Gammage, Timothy Morton, Bruce Pascoe, Val Plumwood, Kate Rigby, John Ryan, Wendy Wheeler, and Cary Wolfe. The selected literary texts include work by Merlinda Bobis, Eric Yoshiaki Dando, Nugi Garimara, Francesca Rendle-Short, Patrick White, and Evie Wyld.

Book Up and Down the Real Australia

Download or read book Up and Down the Real Australia written by Arthur W. Upfield and published by ETT Imprint. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur William Upfield is well known as the creator of Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte (Bony) who features in 29 crime detection novels, most set in the Australian outback. It is not well known that he also wrote about 250 short stories and articles, drawing on his experiences in the bush between 1911 and 1931. Up and Down the Real Australia is the second published collection of Upfield's short works. Kees de Hoog has selected 45 autobiographical articles, ranging from humorous outback anecdotes to personal experiences at Gallipoli and the Somme during the First World War. Kees has added The Murchison Murders, Upfield's account of how the "perfect murder" was developed for his second Bony novel, The Sands of Windee; how Snowy Rowles used it to commit at least one, probably three, murders om 1929; how the crime was solved; and what happened at Rowles' trial in 1932.

Book Arthur W  Upfield

Download or read book Arthur W Upfield written by A. J. Milnor and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both Australia and Arthur W. Upfield (1890-1964) matured together. At the start of the last century, Upfield emigrated to Australia as that nation was gaining independence and identity. The Gallipoli campaign changed both, and both spent the next decades in pursuit of identity, he wandering, Australia finding its own unique place among nations. Arthur W. Upfield lived a life many might envy: unsuccessful student, immigrant (1911), walker, horse breaker and camel driver, soldier, Bushman, fence rider, journalist, intelligence officer, explorer, novelist, swordfisherman, and creator of bi-racial Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, “Bony”, in novels rivaling the popularity of Sherlock Holmes. Caught between two worlds, like his fictional character, Upfield was thoroughly English and yet also an Australian nationalist describing Outback Australia to the world through his part Aboriginal character. Famous novelists including Tony Hillerman and Stan Jones, to name only two, found a detective model in “Bony”. Australia developed quickly after the Second World War, and Upfield, too, was successful after years of tea, chops and damper, chasing “rabbit, ‘roo and dog”. As Australia developed, Upfield’s Bush, his “Australia Proper”, slowly succumbed to modernization. After the war, Upfield left the Bush to become a successful writer eventually to be published in a wide range of languages and selling books in the millions of copies. The biography relies on letters, papers, and public documents of the period, in Australia, England and America, many unexplored before now, in order to understand the story of his life and that of his true homeland, Australia.

Book The World Encyclopedia of Serial Killers  Volume Three  M   S

Download or read book The World Encyclopedia of Serial Killers Volume Three M S written by Susan Hall and published by WildBlue Press. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive reference guide to male and female serial killers from throughout world history. The World Encyclopedia of Serial Killers is the most comprehensive set of its kind in the history of true crime publishing. Written and compiled by Susan Hall, the four-volume set has more than 1600 entries of male and female serial killers from around the world. Defined by the FBI as a person who murders 3 or more people over a period of time with a hiatus of weeks or months between murders, serial killers have walked among us from the dawn of time as these books will demonstrate. While the entries to these volumes will continue to grow—the FBI estimates that there are at least fifty serial killers operating in the United States at any given time—The World Encyclopedia of Serial Killers is as complete as possible through the end of 2017. The series continues with Volume Three, M-S. The entries include the Machete Murderer Juan Vallejo Corona, Maranhão Boy Mutilator Francisco das Chagas, Night Stalker Richard Ramirez, Rostov Ripper Andrei Romanovych Chikatilo, and Genesee River Killer Arthur John Shawcross. You will find these killers and approximately 475 others in this third book in the series of The World Encyclopedia of Serial Killers.

Book Sex  Maiming and Murder

Download or read book Sex Maiming and Murder written by Rod Moran and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven case studies into the reliability of Reverend E.R.B. Gribble, Superintendent, Forrest River Mission 1913-1928, as a witness to the truth in a series of alleged incidents involving Aboriginals, white pastoralists and police.

Book World Serial Killers II  50 of the worlds most chilling serial killers

Download or read book World Serial Killers II 50 of the worlds most chilling serial killers written by Nigel Cawthorne and published by Canary Press eBooks. This book was released on 2022-09-05 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World Serial Killers II investigates 50 chilling cases of serial killers across the globe. These men are guilty of some of the most depraved crimes ever committed. Men such as: Gary Ridgway, the Green River Killer, who murdered so many times he lost count; The Werewolf, Russian Mikhail Popkov, who killed women with knives and axes at night while serving as a police officer during the day; or Tsutomu Miyazaki, The Japanese Vampire, who murdered young girls in Tokyo and preserved their body parts as trophies; or the cannibal Nikolai Dzhumagaliev known as Metal Fang who brought terror to Kazakhstan with his appetite for eating his victims. Some are notorious killers while others are more obscure, but all are guaranteed to make your blood run cold. Capturing their essence country by country, World Serial Killers II travels across America through Europe and Russia to the Far East and south to India, Australia and South Africa. Visiting far flung corners of the world where sometimes monstrous crimes such as these go unreported. Fans of Netflix true crime documentaries such as Making a Murderer or I am a Killer, and true crime podcasts like Murder Book or Crime Junkie will also like World Serial Killers II, a compendium packed with pure evil which explores the twisted imaginations of those who love to kill and who just can’t stop. Contents: AMERICA (15 killers) Rodney Alcala, Charles Albright, Richard Chase, Richard Cottingham, Joseph James DeAngelo, Ed Gein, Israel Keyes, Samuel Little, Richard Ramirez, Melvin Rees, Gary Ridgway, Lonnie David Franklin Jr., Angel Maturino Reséndiz, Paul Durousseau, Wayne Bertram Williams. EUROPE (9 killers) United Kingdom: Colin Ireland, Donald Neilson, Peter Sutcliffe, Robert Black, Peter Tobin. Italy: Donato Bilancia. Spain: Dámaso Rodríguez Martín. Belgium: Marc Dutroux, Nestor Pirotte. ASIA (10 killers) Ukraine: Anatoly Onoprienko. Kazakhstan: Nikolai Dzhumagaliev. Russia: Mikhail Popkov. China: Gao Chengyong. Japan: Yasutoshi Kamata, Tsutomu Miyazaki. South Korea: Lee Choon-jae, Yoo Young-chul. India: Charles Sobhraj, Akku Yadav. AUSTRALIA (11 killers) John Balaban, Gregory Brazel, John Leslie Coombes, Leonard Fraser, Paul Steven Haigh, Matthew James Harris, Eddie Leonski, Lindsey Robert Rose, John “Snowy” Rowles, Christopher Worrell and James Miller, Derek Percy. SOUTH AFRICA (5 killers) Stewart Wilken, Moses Sithole, Jimmy Maketta, Madumetsa Jack Mogale, Andries Makgae.