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Book Springvale and the Katherine

Download or read book Springvale and the Katherine written by Peter Forrest and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Springvale station and the Katherine Region, N.T." -- Provided by publisher.

Book Springvale s Story

Download or read book Springvale s Story written by Peter Forrest and published by . This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Very brief mention of Aborigines; beginnings of pastoral industry in Top End-Katherine region.

Book Springvale in a Nutshell

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  • Author : Marion Townsend
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018-07-31
  • ISBN : 9780994538925
  • Pages : 20 pages

Download or read book Springvale in a Nutshell written by Marion Townsend and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete history of Springvale Homestead Katherine NT. Written by Marion Townsend

Book Holstein Friesian Herd book

Download or read book Holstein Friesian Herd book written by Holstein-Friesian Association of America and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 1862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Archaeological Perspectives on Conflict and Warfare in Australia and the Pacific

Download or read book Archaeological Perspectives on Conflict and Warfare in Australia and the Pacific written by Geoffrey Clark and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When James Boswell famously lamented the irrationality of war in 1777, he noted the universality of conflict across history and across space – even reaching what he described as the gentle and benign southern ocean nations. This volume discusses archaeological evidence of conflict from those southern oceans, from Palau and Guam, to Australia, Vanuatu and Tonga, the Marquesas, Easter Island and New Zealand. The evidence for conflict and warfare encompasses defensive earthworks on Palau, fortifications on Tonga, and intricate pa sites in New Zealand. It reports evidence of reciprocal sacrifice to appease deities in several island nations, and skirmishes and smaller scale conflicts, including in Easter Island. This volume traces aspects of colonial-era conflict in Australia and frontier battles in Vanuatu, and discusses depictions of World War II materiel in the rock art of Arnhem Land. Among the causes and motives discussed in these papers are pressure on resources, the ebb and flow of significant climate events, and the significant association of conflict with culture contact. The volume, necessarily selective, eclectic and wide-ranging, includes an incisive introduction that situates the evidence persuasively in the broader scholarship addressing the history of human warfare.

Book Australia s Savannah Way

Download or read book Australia s Savannah Way written by Dick Eussen and published by Australian Fishing Network. This book was released on 2007 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book "is a definitive guide to one of the most beautiful, well-travelled famous routes through the Australian outback country. Savannah Way stretches 3,500 km coast to coast from Cairns in Queensland to Broome in Western Australia, covering a myriad of different vistas as it gives access to four World Heritage Regions, over 15 national parks and reserves and the entire remote tropical wilderness of Australia." - book jacket.

Book Springvale Homestead  Katherine

Download or read book Springvale Homestead Katherine written by and published by . This book was released on 1979* with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Grammar of Wardaman

Download or read book A Grammar of Wardaman written by Francesca C. Merlan and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-05-12 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The series builds an extensive collection of high quality descriptions of languages around the world. Each volume offers a comprehensive grammatical description of a single language together with fully analyzed sample texts and, if appropriate, a word list and other relevant information which is available on the language in question. There are no restrictions as to language family or area, and although special attention is paid to hitherto undescribed languages, new and valuable treatments of better known languages are also included. No theoretical model is imposed on the authors; the only criterion is a high standard of scientific quality. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert.

Book He of the Never Never

Download or read book He of the Never Never written by John Bradshaw and published by Australian Scholarly Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-08 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aeneas Gunn achieved posthumous fame in 1908 as the Maluka, following the publication of Jeannie (Mrs Aeneas) Gunn’s acclaimed novel, We of the Never-Never. The story of Aeneas James Gunn prior to and including his year managing a remote cattle station in the Northern Territory can now be told, thanks to the discovery of a large cache of his letters. Gunn’s voice enriches the narrative with deeply personal, perceptive and often humorous glimpses into life in Australia during the last decades of colonisation. A proud and capable literary man, Gunn found his vulnerabilities exposed in unusual circumstances. His Anglocentric views would, in time, be tempered by the woman he loved and admired.

Book Twenty to the Mile

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  • Author : Derek Pugh
  • Publisher : Derek Pugh
  • Release : 2024-03-01
  • ISBN : 0645737429
  • Pages : 277 pages

Download or read book Twenty to the Mile written by Derek Pugh and published by Derek Pugh. This book was released on 2024-03-01 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The greatest engineering problem facing Australia - the tyranny of distance - had a solution: the electric telegraph, and its champion was the sheep-farming colony of South Australia. In two years, Charles Heavitree Todd, leading hundreds of men, constructed a telegraph line across the centre of the continent from Port Augusta to Darwin. At nearly 3,000 kilometres long and using 36,000 poles at '20 to the mile', it was a mammoth undertaking but in October 1872, Adelaide was finally linked to London. The Overland Telegraph Line crossed Aboriginal lands first seen by John McDouall Stuart just 10 years before. Messages which previously took weeks to cross the country now took hours. Passing through eleven new repeater stations and the remotest parts of Australia, the line joined the vast global telegraph network, and a new era was ushered in. Each station held a staff of six. They became centres of white civilization and the cattle or sheep industry and, in many places, the Aborigines were displaced. The unique stories of how men and women lived and/or died on the line range from heroic through desperate to tragic, but they remain an indelible part of Australia's history. '...a book written with heart and determination ... a lasting tribute to the inventiveness and tenacity of the people behind the planning, building and execution of the Overland Telegraph - a true nation building endeavour.' - His Excellency, The Honourable Hieu Van Le, AC.

Book Caging the Rainbow

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  • Author : Francesca Merlan
  • Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
  • Release : 1998-05-01
  • ISBN : 9780824820459
  • Pages : 300 pages

Download or read book Caging the Rainbow written by Francesca Merlan and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1998-05-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caging the Rainbow explores the lives of Aborigines in the small regional town of Katherine, Northern Territory, Australia. Francesca Merlan combines ethnography and theory to grapple with issues surrounding the debate about the authenticity of contemporary cultural activity. Throughout, the vulnerability of Fourth World peoples to others' representations of them and the ethical problems this poses are kept in view.

Book A Wild History

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  • Author : Darrell Lewis
  • Publisher : Monash University Publishing
  • Release : 2012-03-01
  • ISBN : 1921867264
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book A Wild History written by Darrell Lewis and published by Monash University Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The frontiersmen who came to the Victoria River District of Australia’s Northern Territory included cattle and horse thieves, outlaws, capitalists, dreamers, drunks, madmen and others, from the explorers of the 1830s and 1850s to the founders of the big stations in the 1880s and 1890s, and the cattle duffers in the early 1900s. This book looks at them all. Drawing on painstaking research into obscure and rich documentary sources, Aboriginal oral traditions, and first-hand investigations conducted in the region over thirty-five years, Darrell Lewis pieces together the complex interactions between the environment, the powerful and warlike Aboriginal tribes and the settlers and their cattle, which produced what truly became A Wild History.

Book Springvale Homestead Katherine  Northern Territory

Download or read book Springvale Homestead Katherine Northern Territory written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Icing on the Damper

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  • Author : Marie Mahood
  • Publisher : Boolarong Press
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 1921920386
  • Pages : 235 pages

Download or read book Icing on the Damper written by Marie Mahood and published by Boolarong Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the real life story of the Outback that will make you proud to be Australian. The Mahood family are battlers who never ask for something for nothing and who never give up. Join the Mahood's in the desert at Mongrel Downs' somewhere West of Alice Springs.

Book Landmarks

Download or read book Landmarks written by National Museum of Australia and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through objects and stories from the National Museum of Australia's collections, Landmarks: A History of Australia in 33 Places traces how people have lived across the Australian continent since 1788. It explores how generations have made their homes here, nurtured families, established enterprises and shaped the places that define our lives today.

Book The Murranji Track

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  • Author : Darrell Lewis
  • Publisher : Boolarong Press
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 1921920238
  • Pages : 257 pages

Download or read book The Murranji Track written by Darrell Lewis and published by Boolarong Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For almost a century, drovers moved cattle along the Murranji Track, despite scarce water, jungle-like scrub and its reputation as the Death Track. In this well-researched, detailed book Lewis provides the definitive account of the track, from the time of the Aborigines and early explorers, to its opening by the legendary Bluey Buchanan.

Book Dynamics of Difference in Australia

Download or read book Dynamics of Difference in Australia written by Francesca Merlan and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2018-04-04 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Dynamics of Difference in Australia, Francesca Merlan examines relations between indigenous and nonindigenous people from the events of early exploration and colonial endeavors to the present day. From face-to-face interactions to national and geopolitical affairs, the book illuminates the dimensions of difference that are revealed by these encounters: what indigenous and nonindigenous people pay attention to, what they value, what preconceived notions each possesses, and what their responses are to the Other. Basing her analysis on her extensive fieldwork in northern Australia, Merlan highlights the asymmetries in the exchanges between the settler majority and the indigenous minority, looking at everything from forms of violence and material transactions, to indigenous involvement in resource development, to governmental intervention in indigenous affairs. Merlan frames the book within the current debate in Australian society concerning the constitutional recognition of indigenous people by the nation-state. Surveying the precursors to this question and its continuing and unresolved nature, she chronicles the ways in which an indigenous minority can remain culturally different while simultaneously experiencing the transformative forces of domination, constraint, and inequality. Conducting an investigation of long-term change against the backdrop of a highly salient and timely public debate surrounding indigenous issues, Dynamics of Difference has far-reaching implications both for public policy and for current theoretical debates about the nature of sociocultural continuity and change.