Download or read book Old Mining Towns of North Queensland written by Frank Dempsey and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book North Queensland Deserted Towns written by Colin Hooper and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: North Queensland Deserted Towns COOKTOWN-PALMER . Vol 1 of 9 encyclopaedic volumes on former mining towns and camps in North Queensland. Vol 1 chronicles the Cooktown tinfields and Palmer River Goldfields with colour photos, co-ordinates, maps, town plans,sketches, archival photos, statistical and historical information and anecdotal stories. The unique character of the area emerges with its stories of the gold rush and mineral boom and bust times. Of interest to historians, mining companies, prospectors, locals, 4WD enthusiasts and tourists. All 9 volumes in the series on deserted towns in north Queensland complement the well known title "Angor to Zillmanton", also by Colin Hooper
Download or read book Angor to Zillmanton written by Colin Hooper and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encyclopaedic reference to 500 former mining towns and camps in North Queensland. Information, town plans, maps, photos and anecdotal history. Geographical districts, areas and chronological sequence. Thousands of photos, maps.
Download or read book Old Gold Mining Towns of Australia written by John Darbyshire and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Walks Tracks and Trails of Queensland s Tropics written by Derrick Stone and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2016-03 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queensland’s tropics provide numerous environments for enjoyable walking: lush rainforests, cloud-shrouded mountains, extinct volcanoes, savanna woodlands, and magnificent beaches on the coast and Great Barrier Reef islands. This book brings together more than 150 of the best walks, tracks or trails in Queensland’s tropics, located within the coastal strip between Rockhampton and Cooktown. Walks vary from short boardwalk strolls in the lowland rainforests of Daintree National Park to 4-6 day hiking and camping trips on Hinchinbrook Island. Other routes follow old gold miners’ and forestry tracks or coaching routes or feature historical sites, rivers, lagoons, geological and geographical formations or much earlier Aboriginal communication tracks where Dreamtime stories add a further dimension. Man-made environments of abandoned gold towns, heritage riverfronts, Art Deco streetscapes and Second World War installations also feature. Most routes are best completed during the ‘Dry’ season (May to October) and walked by moderately fit individuals. Most do not require specialist navigation or bushcraft skills. Walks, Tracks and Trails of Queensland’s Tropics highlights the best the region has to offer. Easy-to-interpret maps are included to help you navigate, and the book’s size makes it convenient to carry in the backpack.
Download or read book Readings in North Queensland Mining History written by Kennedy K J. and published by . This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Below Bartle Frere written by Christopher Cummings and published by DoctorZed Publishing. This book was released on 2023-03-03 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the start of the Christmas holidays in North Queensland, the wet season in the tropics. Twelve-year-old Kylie and her friends, Margaret and Allison, travel to her grandmother’s dairy farm on the Atherton Tablelands. On arrival they are confronted by thieves, sparking an unexpected adventure in search of lost family treasure. They are drawn into the rain-soaked, tropical jungle in the rugged country below Mt Bartle Frere, the highest mountain in Queensland. But nature is not the only enemy in their search for gold. There are rivals, some known, others unsuspected. Join the adventure as it climaxes in a desperate struggle for life and death against both man and nature, testing Kylie and her friends to their absolute limits of endurance.
Download or read book Ghosts of a Mining Town written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bowen Mackay Townsville written by Colin Hooper and published by . This book was released on 1915-08-20 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol 9 in the series on the rise and demise of pioneer towns especially the discovery of mineral wealth. History of the towns and areas in their heyday with contrast to what now exists. Maps, town plans, photos, history. The book looks specifically at the discovery and rise of the districts of Bowen, Mackay and Townsville.A companion book to the encyclopaedic Angor to Zillmanton by the same author. Valuable for historians, locals, tourists, gold enthusiasts.
Download or read book Mining Towns written by Erik Eklund and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 2012-01-08 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At any given moment in our history Australia has been in the middle of a mining boom. This timely book is a history of the iconic Australian towns that arose with these booms over a century: Broken Hill, Mount Isa, Queenstown, Mount Morgan, Port Pirie and Kambalda. Mining Towns shows the rich cultural and historical legacy these towns helped create as townspeople – those working below the ground and those above – sought to make their lives in them. The current ‘fly-in-fly-out’ mining culture means we may not see the likes of them again, which, as this book shows, will be a great loss.
Download or read book The Architecture of Industry written by Mathew Aitchison and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-16 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Rust Belt to Silicon Valley, the intersection between architecture and industry has provided a rich and evolving source for historians of architecture. In a historical context, industrial architecture evokes the smoking factories of the nineteenth century or Fordist production complexes of the twentieth century. This book documents the changing nature of industrial building and planning from the end of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Drawing on research from the United States, Europe and Australia, this collection of essays highlights key moments in industrial architecture and planning representative of the wider paradigms in the field. Areas of analysis include industrial production, factories, hydroelectricity, aerospace, logistics, finance, scientific research and mining. The selected case studies serve to highlight architectural and planning innovations in industry and their contributions to wider cultural and societal currents. This richly illustrated collection will be of interest for a wide range of built environment studies, incorporating findings from both historical and theoretical scholarship and design research.
Download or read book Mining Heritage and Tourism written by Michael Conlin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-10-04 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many former mining areas have now lost their industrial function and are now turning to tourism for regional revitalization and community economic development. The transformation process of these industrial, and in some cases derelict, mining sites and landscapes into an area of interest for tourists is a major challenge both for planners and for tourism managers. It involves complex consideration to both the preservation of the physical site and community mining heritages as well as the health, safety and environmental factors inherent in opening these vast sites to the public. Mining Heritage and Tourism includes contributions from internationally recognized authorities and is the first book to focus on the issues, challenges and potentials in redeveloping mines as cultural heritage attractions which are explored thematically throughout the book. It draws on multidisciplinary research to consider the dichotomy between heritage preservation and tourist development goals for mining heritage sites as well as to explore the practical challenges of developing these sites. These themes are illustrated by case studies from a vast range of geographical locations around the globe to offer operational insights into the planning and management of these sites for both heritage and tourism purposes, as well as innovative site management techniques. There has never before been a more comprehensive book on mining heritage tourism representing the latest developments in strategy, policy and practices. This book serves as an invaluable guide for students, researchers, academics and practitioners in the areas of Tourism and Heritage Management.
Download or read book The Development of Mining Towns in Queensland written by Ross Raymond and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book North Queensland Geology written by J. H. C. Bain and published by Australian Geological Su Nductries and Energy. This book was released on 1997 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Finding Queensland in Australian Cinema written by Allison Craven and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2016-07-09 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Finding Queensland in Australian Cinema' explores gender, race and place in selected Australian films in various phases of Australian cinema: from Charles Chauvel’s 'Jedda' (1955), to the ‘period’ films of the New Wave in the 1970s, to the Indigenous filmmakers since the 1990s, and the contemporary era of transnational productions in Australia.
Download or read book Readings In North Queensland Mining History written by Kett Howard Kennedy and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book By the Book written by and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queensland? place of barren land and wild politics with subtropical weather, beaches, and natural wonders's the subject of this rich literary history. Chronicling a wide range of literature, from the first days of European settlement to the present day, this collection touches upon thematic topics such as travel stories, writing for children, and indigenous writings. The role of institutions such as schools, public libraries, the press, and publishers, as well as how they have contributed to the shaping of Queensland? literary development, is also included.
