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Book Road Across the Blue Mountains

Download or read book Road Across the Blue Mountains written by Henry Colden Antill and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The opening of the road across the Blue Mountains, 1815. Compiled and with notes, by Frank Walker from the diary of Major Henry C. Antill, A.D.C. to Governor Macquarie, and from drawings by J.W. Lewin, as published in "The Australian Field", 1904."An authentic copy of the diary of Governor Macquarie's journey across the new road, and the foundation of the city of Bathurst", kept by Major H.C. Antill, A.D.C. Illustrated from photographs of original water color drawings by J.W. Lewin, F.R.S. Also, Thomas Whitley's: "Blue Mountains exploration 1789-1813" and "Early references etc. N.S.W. being extracts from early diaries and historical records concerning exploration around Sydney and westwards over the mountains". Newspaper cuttings and manuscript introduction in a scrapbook.

Book The great road across the Blue Mountains

Download or read book The great road across the Blue Mountains written by William Henry Fitchett and published by . This book was released on with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Blue Mountains

Download or read book Blue Mountains written by John Low and published by Kingsclear Books Pty Ltd. This book was released on 1994 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Aboriginal beginnings, early exploration and the building of such wonders as the Giant Stairway and the Scenic Railway, the famous buildings, writers and artists, including Bradman at Blackheath, the Chinese people and the pioneers. This book covers the history of all the towns over the mountains through to the Jenolan Caves.

Book Take a Walk

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Daly
  • Publisher : Boolarong Press
  • Release : 2022-05-25
  • ISBN : 1922643416
  • Pages : 32 pages

Download or read book Take a Walk written by John Daly and published by Boolarong Press. This book was released on 2022-05-25 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artists, poets, writers, naturalists and bushwalkers have all found inspiration amid the distinctive blue haze and hidden beauty of the majestic Blue Mountains. Discover amazing landforms of towering sandstone cliffs; plummeting waterfalls; vegetation communities from open eucalypt forests to fragile hanging gardens suspended on rugged escarpments; art from the world’s oldest living civilisation, and history from Australia’s colonial days. All this on the doorstep of our largest urban development. There are walks to suit everyone in this totally revised and updated edition. Adventures for families with children, active travellers and hard-core bushwalkers. Take a short stroll to an expansive lookout; enjoy pleasant half-day or full-day walks, or test yourself with more challenging scrambles as you negotiate historic passes or scale mountain peaks. Overnight walks through the spectacular Grose Valley and along Australia’s second most popular multi-day walk, the Six Foot Track, have been described. Detailed notes on evolution, environment, access and facilities will help you to plan and enjoy your trip. Colour maps and photos complement the walk descriptions. Particular attention has been paid to walks that start and finish at railway stations. Use this book to find your own special place in this unique World Heritage Listed area.

Book Cox s Road Dreaming

Download or read book Cox s Road Dreaming written by David C. Goldney and published by . This book was released on 1915-07-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My love affair with all things Cox's Road (1814/15) began in February 1972, when I shared a common-room with thelate Theo Barker, the highly respected Bathurst historian at the Mitchell College of Advanced Education (now CharlesSturt University, Bathurst Campus). For three years he regaled his colleagues with numerous stories about colonialBathurst, including Cox's Road. In the ensuing years I have gathered together a significant amount of informationand visited most of the sites and places identified in the Cox's Road Dreaming Guide - very much through the eyes ofa professional ecologist.The title Cox's Road Dreaming resulted from a long period of reflection on the European interaction with Darug,Gundungurra and Wiradyuri, the three main Aboriginal Nations through which Cox's Road traversed in the period1813 to 1850. Early European historians and explorers were often guilty of writing the story of the traditional ownersout of the historical script as it related to Gregory Blaxland, William Wentworth and William Lawson, George Evans,William Cox and Governor Lachlan Macquarie, the proclamation of Bathurst in May 1815, and the opening up ofthe west to European agriculture and related fledgling industries. This Dreaming story is not seeking to emulateAboriginal Dreaming and song lines, although inspiration is drawn from Aboriginal culture. In this story tellingwe seek a nuanced reappraisal of this period of Australian colonial history, the debunking of some myths withoutnecessarily robbing them of their continuing importance, and to identify the outcomes for Aboriginal people that ledto their dispossession, the precipitous decline in their numbers, and their new reality as colonial fringe dwellers intheir own Country.A recurring theme in Cox's Road Dreaming is the focus on the Natural History associated with the road - the studyof organisms and their environments, geology, vegetation communities, and biological and physical processes. Inthe 19th century Natural History also embraced the study of Aboriginal culture, often in a very paternalistic anddemeaning manner. The study of Natural History in the late 18th and 19th centuries was often little more thanthe equivalent of stamp collecting of natural items. At its best it was undertaken to improve

Book Across The Continent   A Summer s Journey To The Rocky Mountains  The Mormons And The Pacific States

Download or read book Across The Continent A Summer s Journey To The Rocky Mountains The Mormons And The Pacific States written by Samuel Bowles and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This early travelogue is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It contains details of Samuel Bowles’s travels through North America and his experiences along the way. This is a fascinating work and is thoroughly recommended for anyone with an interest in the history of America. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Book Time  Tide and History

Download or read book Time Tide and History written by Brigid Rooney and published by Sydney University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time, Tide and History: Eleanor Dark’s Fiction is the first book-length edited collection of scholarly essays to treat the full span of Eleanor Dark’s fiction, advancing a recent revival of critical and scholarly interest in Dark’s writing. This volume not only establishes a new view of Dark’s fiction as a whole, but also reflects on the ways in which her fiction speaks to our present moment, in the context of a globally fraught, post-pandemic, Anthropocene era. Above all, the revisiting of Dark’s fiction is mandated by a desire to recognise the ways in which it anticipates vital debates in Australian literary and national culture today, about settler colonialism and its legacies, and with regard to the histories, condition and status of Australia’s First Nations people. This volume interweaves varied topical themes, from formal debates about modernism, historical realism and melodrama, to questions about modernity’s time and space, about gender and cultural difference, and about the specifics of built and natural environments. Time, Tide and History intentionally loosens the conventions of literary scholarship by including other kinds of work alongside critical and scholarly readings: a written dialogue between two contemporary historians about Dark’s legacy, and a biographical piece on the life and role of Eleanor Dark’s husband, Eric Payten Dark. Bringing together the interwar fiction’s feminist and modernist dimensions with the historical turn of The Timeless Land trilogy, the essays in Time, Tide and History collectively pursue ethical and political questions while teasing out the distinctive thematic, formal and aesthetic features of Dark’s fiction.

Book Road Transport

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alison Hideki
  • Publisher : Redback Publishing
  • Release : 2018-06-01
  • ISBN : 1925630609
  • Pages : 32 pages

Download or read book Road Transport written by Alison Hideki and published by Redback Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vehicles transport goods and people on Australian roads. Read about the first roads built in Australia, and the horse-drawn and bullock-drawn vehicles that travelled on them. Find out about the first cars and the construction of strong roads, bridges and tunnels to carry the growing numbers of cars, trucks and buses. Learn about the pollution problems caused by the huge numbers of vehicles on Australian roads today, and ways to make road vehicles of the future more environmentally friendly.

Book Acquisition of Oregon

Download or read book Acquisition of Oregon written by William Isaac Marshall and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Many Faces of Rex Granger

Download or read book The Many Faces of Rex Granger written by Val Forrester and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HISTORIC NOVEL SPANNING THE FIRST CENTURY OF THE AUSTRALIAN NATION Rex Granger would see New South Wales develop from a depraved and starving convict settlement, to which no free settler would care to immigrate, to a thriving, self governing part of the British Empire. When he began life as the pampered son of a middle-class English family, Rex Granger's expectations did not include seven years transportation to the antipodes, nor did he plan to make his fortune by working the land. The changing fortunes of Rex Granger would take him from Pristine Covent Gardens to the polluted back streets of London, from starving waif of the streets to patriarch of a pastoral dynasty.

Book Memoir to Accompany the Map of the Territory of the United States from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean

Download or read book Memoir to Accompany the Map of the Territory of the United States from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean written by Gouverneur Kemble Warren and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Back Roads Australia

    Book Details:
  • Author : DK Publishing
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2011-03-01
  • ISBN : 0756683785
  • Pages : 266 pages

Download or read book Back Roads Australia written by DK Publishing and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DK Eyewitness Back Roads Australia driving vacation guide will take you via scenic routes to discover charming Australian towns, local restaurants, and intimate places to stay. Unearth the real soul of Australia relying on all the practical information you could need, from road conditions and length of drive to parking information and opening hours. Twenty-two themed drives, each lasting one to seven days, reveal breathtaking views, hidden gems, and authentic local experiences in an Australia that can only be discovered by road. Each tour is bursting with insider knowledge and loaded with ideas for varied activities, from diving and snorkeling, to hiking, surfing, wine tours, cycling trips, and river-rafting. Meanwhile, the most friendly, best-value hotels and guesthouses and restaurants specializing in fresh local produce have been selected by expert authors. Discover the unexpected on your driving vacation with DK Eyewitness Back Roads Australia.

Book Back Roads Australia

    Book Details:
  • Author : DK
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2014-02-03
  • ISBN : 1465422250
  • Pages : 266 pages

Download or read book Back Roads Australia written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DK Eyewitness Back Roads Australia driving holiday guide will take you via scenic routes to discover charming villages, local restaurants and intimate places to stay. Unearth the real soul of this magical region with all the practical information you could need, from road conditions and length of drive to parking information and opening hours. Twenty-five themed drives, each lasting one to seven days, reveal breathtaking views, hidden gems and authentic local experiences that can only be discovered by road. Each tour is bursting with insider knowledge and loaded with ideas for varied activities from walks to days on the beach and children's attractions, to wine and cycling trips. Meanwhile, the most friendly, best-value hotels and guesthouses and charming restaurants specialising in regional produce have been selected by expert authors. The guide is full-colour throughout. Discover the unexpected on your driving holiday with DK Eyewitness Back Roads Australia. Now available in PDF format.

Book Cultural identities and the aesthetics of Britishness

Download or read book Cultural identities and the aesthetics of Britishness written by Dana Arnold and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers how notions of Britishness were constructed and promoted through architecture, landscape, painting, sculpture and literature. Maps important moments in the self-conscious evolution of the idea of ‘nation’ against a broad cultural historical framework. An important addition to the field of postcolonial studies as it looks at how British identity creation affected those living in England – most study in this area has thus far focused on the effect of such identity creation upon the colonial subject. Broad appeal due to wide subject matter covered. Examines just how ‘constructed’ a national identity is – past and present.