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Book History of the Colony of Queensland

Download or read book History of the Colony of Queensland written by William Coote. and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of the Colony of Queensland by William Coote is about the separation of the district of Moreton Bay in Australia and its new constitution as a separate colony. Contents: "PREFACE. CHAPTER I. 1770-1824. Connection of past with present History—Original cause of Settlement—Cook's Voyage to Eastern Australia—Flinders' first Voyage in 1799—His second Voyage and Examination of Moreton Bay in 1801—King's Voyage in 1820—Oxley's Search after a Site for a Penal Establishment—His alleged Discovery of the Brisbane River in Moreton Bay in 1823—Determination by the Government of New South Wales to form a Convict Settlement in the Bay CHAPTER II. 1824-1839. General Character of Penal Establishments..."

Book The Scots in Australia

    Book Details:
  • Author : Malcolm David Prentis
  • Publisher : UNSW Press
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 9781921410215
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book The Scots in Australia written by Malcolm David Prentis and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a highly descriptive account of the Scots in Australia from 1788 to the present. It shows that the Scots have made a major contribution to all aspects of Australian life. It is aimed at non-specialist general readers, although much of the audience will be Scottish."-- Provided by publisher.

Book The Scottish in Australia

Download or read book The Scottish in Australia written by Malcolm David Prentis and published by Steve Parish. This book was released on 1987 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bibliography: p. 167-169.

Book The Scots Abroad

Download or read book The Scots Abroad written by R. A. Cage and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1985, this book examines the extent of Scottish migration and Scottish involvement in the process of development. Although there are many books written on the Scots abroad, this volume is unique in that it has a unifying theme: each contributor has concentrated on the role played by the Scots in the economic development of their relevant country or area which include England, Canada, the USA, Australia, New Zealand, India, Latin America and Japan. This will be of interest to both social and economic historians.

Book The Genesis of Queensland

Download or read book The Genesis of Queensland written by Henry Stuart Russell and published by Sydney : Turner & Henderson. This book was released on 1888 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contacts with natives noted; p.22; Moreton Bay natives used to locate runaways; p.24; Nasal septum pierced, two joints of little finger left hand removed; manufacture of nets and baskets; fishing; shelters; duels described; p.31; Bathurst Island; tattoos, painted, scarification, physical appearance; clothing; weapons; p.34; Grave in detail; p.253; Sunstroke cure; p.295; Cannibalism; p.313; Gathering of tribes for Bunnia [bunya] season; p.339; Childrens games with bows and arrows.

Book That Land of Exiles

Download or read book That Land of Exiles written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dreams of Exile

Download or read book Dreams of Exile written by Ian Bell and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fiction is to grown men what play is to the child," Robert Louis Stevenson once said in a statement that perfectly captures the magic of his own fiction. Immensely popular during is brief life--he died in 1894 at the age of forty-four--he has never lacked for readers since. In the century that followed his death, many biographies have been written, each with its own R.L.S.: the sickly, dreaming child; the Bohemian dandy outraging Victorian Edinburgh; the romantic wanderer leading his donkey through the wilds of the Cevennes; the frail genius doomed to die young. For some, he is the man of action avid for experience, filled with wanderlust; for others, the writer of stories beloved by children and familiar from innumerable film ad television dramas. Still others know him as the essayist whose skills matched William Hazlitt's and the novelist to whom even Henry James deffered. All of these are R.L.S., but none is the full Stevenson. Now, in this new and acclaimed biography, Ian Bell attempts to see Stevenson whole, to trace the line of descent form the son of Calvinist engineers to the man who ended his days as Tusitala among the Samoan islanders. Understanding that for Stevenson geography mattered, Bell sets out to discover the complete man through the places he lived and the people he lived among as well as through the books that poured from him during his all-too-short literary life. As such, Dreams of Exile is both literary biogrpahy and travel narrative. It follows Stevenson's development as an artist and as a man by following his often chaotic progress from continent to continent, in good health and in bad, in poverty and in wealth. Along the way, it reveals his often tortured relations with his family, his robust sexuality, and the mystery of his stormy marriage to a woman many years his senior. But perhaps Bell's most important contribution is to rescue R.L.S. from the many conflicting and often romanticized images that have continued to surround him, and in the process to make a telling case for Stevenson's genius as a writer.

Book The Best of Colonial Brisbane

Download or read book The Best of Colonial Brisbane written by Rod Fisher and published by Boolarong Press. This book was released on 2012-01-09 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packed inside this unique collection on colonial Brisbane are no less than 22 essays by historian Rod Fisher. Most were published as scattered articles in various formats over 25 years, 3 have never seen the light of day and all are brought up to date. While stepping through the years from 1842-1901 and sometimes further as a continuum, they are grouped under 5 main themes. ‘Occupation’ deals with early settlement, employment and pursuits until the 1860s. That involves the lie of the land including the town, its old windmill, industry, photography, cultural associations and personnel. The next theme of ‘Alienation’ traverses the same years in exposing, as never before, the aboriginal experience and ethnic mix, while taking the formation of the New Church until the early 1880s as an instance of sectarianism. The ‘Separation’ section concerns several historical oversights about 1859: the time-lag in acknowledging Brisbane as the colonial capital; rediscovery of the original proclamation of Queensland; recognition of the role of its prime public servant; and ongoing history of the first colonial flag; as well as the visual means used by a sojourning artist to promote Brisbane’s new-found status in 1864-66. Then ‘Personation’ portrays the rise and fall of 4 ‘representative men’ from early colonial years to the end of the era: an Anglican brewer turned public servant and teacher; English Swedenborgian artist, musician and naturalist; Scottish Presbyterian novelist, merchant and planter; and Irish Catholic building contractor – not forgetting their supportive and long-suffering wives. Going back from the late 1880s to the 1840s and then forward into the next century, the final theme of ‘Location’ examines the iniquities of urban Frogs Hollow, origins of rustic Bulimba, trends in old South Brisbane, controversies of North Brisbane Cemetery later Lang Park, perceptions of Brisbane River and sad saga of Moreton Bay.

Book Scottish Emigration and Scottish Society

Download or read book Scottish Emigration and Scottish Society written by Thomas Martin Devine and published by John Donald. This book was released on 1992 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reminiscences of Queensland 1862 1899

Download or read book Reminiscences of Queensland 1862 1899 written by William Henry Corfield and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Reminiscences of Queensland 1862-1899 by William Henry Corfield

Book Recollections of a Rambling Life

Download or read book Recollections of a Rambling Life written by Thomas Archer and published by Hyperion Books. This book was released on 1988 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Emigration from North east Scotland

Download or read book Emigration from North east Scotland written by Marjory Harper and published by [Aberdeen] : Aberdeen University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Australian Pioneers and Reminiscences  illustrated

Download or read book Australian Pioneers and Reminiscences illustrated written by Nehemiah Bartley and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Duramboi

Download or read book Duramboi written by Patrick J. Tynan and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Brisbane

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ross Johnston
  • Publisher : Hyperion Books
  • Release : 1989-03-01
  • ISBN : 9780864390738
  • Pages : 268 pages

Download or read book Brisbane written by Ross Johnston and published by Hyperion Books. This book was released on 1989-03-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Colonial Queensland

Download or read book Colonial Queensland written by Bill Thorpe and published by University of Queensland Press(Australia). This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Marketing Blurb

Book My Journey Through Dance

Download or read book My Journey Through Dance written by Charles Lisner and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: