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Book Private Journal of a Voyage to Australia 1838 39

Download or read book Private Journal of a Voyage to Australia 1838 39 written by James Bell and published by Allen & Unwin Australia. This book was released on 2011 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though intended only for the eyes of his beloved in England, this diary written by James Bell, sailor on the voyage of the good ship Planter to Australia in 1838, provides a unique insight into the experience of sailing to Australia in the middle of the Nineteenth Century. An invaluable addition to the history of the emigrant ships to Australia.

Book Settler Society in the Australian Colonies

Download or read book Settler Society in the Australian Colonies written by Angela Woollacott and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the rising numbers of free settlers from the 1820s to the 1860s, their dependence on Aboriginal, immigrant, and convict under-paid laborers, and the slow development of representative government.

Book Steerage to Australia

Download or read book Steerage to Australia written by John Sceales and published by . This book was released on 1998* with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Private Journal of William Reynolds

Download or read book The Private Journal of William Reynolds written by William Reynolds and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-10-26 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the finest nineteenth-century first-person narratives of a sea voyage in existence, and a principle source for Sea of Glory, The Private Journal of William Reynolds brings to life the boisterous world traversed by the six vessels that comprised America's first ocean-going voyage of discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition of 1838–1842. With great eloquence and verve Midshipman William Reynolds describes the harrowing 87,000-mile, four-year circuit of the globe, and relates the story of how the abusive commander of the Ex. Ex., Lieutenant Charles Wilkes, gradually lost the support of his crew. With a seaman's understanding and an artist's appreciation for the wild beauty that surrounds him, the Journal is a tour de force combining meticulous observations with a young man's sense of wonder and, on occasion, terror as he is tossed about by the tremendous seas.

Book Private Journal of a Voyage to Australia

Download or read book Private Journal of a Voyage to Australia written by James Bell and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2011 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 19 November 1838 James Bell, then aged 21, set out in the sailing vessel the Planter from St Katharine Docks in London to travel to Adelaide, an infant colony half a world away and not yet two years old. He left behind family, good friends and the mysterious C.P., a young woman with whom he hoped one day to be reunited."

Book Adelaide  a literary city

    Book Details:
  • Author : Philip Butterss
  • Publisher : University of Adelaide Press
  • Release : 2013-12-20
  • ISBN : 1922064645
  • Pages : 281 pages

Download or read book Adelaide a literary city written by Philip Butterss and published by University of Adelaide Press. This book was released on 2013-12-20 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adelaide Law Review News About Us Advisory Committee For Readers Submitting Proposals Links Contact Adelaide: a literary city Download PDFRead Online Direct Adelaide: a literary city edited by Philip Butterss $33.00 | 2013 | Paperback | 978-1-922064-63-9 | 280 pp FREE | 2013 | Ebook (PDF) | 978-1-922064-64-6 | 280 pp From the tentative beginnings of European settlement to today’s flourishing writing scene, Adelaide has always been a literary city. Novelists, poets and playwrights have lived here; readers have pored over books, sharing them and discussing them; literary celebrities have visited and sometimes stayed; writers have encouraged each other and fought with each other. Adelaide is literary, too, in the sense of having been written about—sometimes with love, sometimes with scorn. Literature has been important not only to the city’s cultural life but to its identity, to the way it has been seen and, most importantly, to the way it has seen itself.

Book Imperial Boredom

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jeffrey A. Auerbach
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2018-10-04
  • ISBN : 0192562312
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Imperial Boredom written by Jeffrey A. Auerbach and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imperial Boredom offers a radical reconsideration of the British Empire during its heyday in the nineteenth century. Challenging the long-established view that the empire was about adventure and excitement, with heroic men and intrepid women eagerly spreading commerce and civilization around the globe, this thoroughly researched, engagingly written, and lavishly illustrated account suggests instead that boredom was central to the experience of empire. Combining individual stories of pain and perseverance with broader analysis, Professor Auerbach considers what it was actually like to sail to Australia, to serve as a soldier in South Africa, or to accompany a colonial official to the hill stations of India. He reveals that for numerous men and women, from explorers to governors, tourists to settlers, the Victorian Empire was dull and disappointing. Drawing on diaries, letters, memoirs, and travelogues, Imperial Boredom demonstrates that all across the empire, men and women found the landscapes monotonous, the physical and psychological distance from home debilitating, the routines of everyday life wearisome, and their work tedious and unfulfilling. The empires early years may have been about wonder and marvel, but the Victorian Empire was a far less exciting project. Many books about the British Empire focus on what happened; this book concentrates on how people felt.

Book Life on Board an Emigrant Ship

Download or read book Life on Board an Emigrant Ship written by John Davies Mereweather and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Doctors at Sea

    Book Details:
  • Author : R. Haines
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2005-11-22
  • ISBN : 023024842X
  • Pages : 258 pages

Download or read book Doctors at Sea written by R. Haines and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-11-22 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this engaging tale of movement from one hemisphere to another, we see doctors at work attending to their often odious and demanding duties at sea, in quarantine, and after arrival. The book shows, in graphic detail, just why a few notorious voyages suffered tragic loss of life in the absence of competent supervision. Its emphasis, however, is on demonstrating the extent to which the professionalism of the majority of surgeon superintendents, even on ships where childhood epidemics raged, led to the extraordinary saving of life on the Australian route in the Victorian era.

Book Australia

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sir Ernest Scott
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1988
  • ISBN : 0521356210
  • Pages : 788 pages

Download or read book Australia written by Sir Ernest Scott and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Voyage to Australia

Download or read book A Voyage to Australia written by Robert Miller Hunter and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal of a Voyage to Australia

Download or read book Journal of a Voyage to Australia written by John Elliot Koulaouzos and published by Inspiring Publishers. This book was released on 2021-02 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Journal of a Voyage to Australia In 1855, my great, great grandfather, Henry Morrison began writing a detailed account of his voyage to Australia. This diary would encompass far more than just his personal observation of the long and arduous sea voyage from Sunderland, England via the Cape of Good Hope, the treacherous waters of the Indian Ocean and the numerous on board deaths and injuries before landing in Melbourne. Henry spent a further 2 years exploring and gold mining in the Victorian countryside around Castlemaine with his good friend George. They endured extreme hard work digging in the blazing heat of summer, frigid cold winters and succumbing to recurring sickness whilst living in a small, canvas tent with limited rations. In 1857, after Henry had had some meagre fortunes on the goldfields, he began the long sea journey back again to England from Melbourne. The diary concluding as he nears the South East coast of England. With the help of a previously unknown cousin researching family history in New Zealand, I discovered that Henry Morrison eventually married and immigrated to Napier, New Zealand around 1858. He unfortunately was killed in 1866 during the battle of Omarunui, NZ. The precious journal itself would eventually be brought to Australia by his migrating son John Elliott Morrison, then handed down to his son (my grandfather) and eventually lost for many years at the bottom of a junk pile of magazines at my uncles' house, in Bexley Australia, before being rediscovered by myself a few years back.

Book Encyclopedia of Exploration  1800 to 1850

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Exploration 1800 to 1850 written by Raymond John Howgego and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 732 major articles, Raymond Howgego's Encyclopedia of Exploration 1800 to 1850 attempts to detail every significant traveller, voyager or expedition that set out during the period. Its indexes provide the names of over 3000 travellers and 1000 ships, while the bibliographies cite more than 10,000 works of reference. Extensive biographical information is included for the travellers themselves, placing every expedition thoroughly in its historical context. The text is fully cross-referenced between articles, whilst every article is supplemented by a comprehensive bibliography of both primary and secondary sources.

Book Theatre Buildings in Australia to 1905  from the Time of the First Settlement to Arrival of Cinema  Appendices  notes   sources to text   illustrations

Download or read book Theatre Buildings in Australia to 1905 from the Time of the First Settlement to Arrival of Cinema Appendices notes sources to text illustrations written by Ross Thorne and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: