Download or read book The Adventures of the Three Australian Travellers written by and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Adventures of the Three Australian Travellers written by and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Boy Travellers in Australasia written by Thomas Wallace Knox and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally written as a contribution to the Australian Centennial in 1888 based on the author's knowledge of the areas and subsequent historical and scientific research. Includes encounters with and observations about Australian Aboriginal people ; diet ; corroboree ; marriage & courtship customs ; initiation rituals.
Download or read book Girls Who Travel written by Nicole Trilivas and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hilarious, deftly written debut novel about a woman whose wanderlust is about to show her that sometimes you don’t have to travel very far to become the person you want to be… There are many reasons women shouldn’t travel alone. But as foul-mouthed, sweet-toothed Kika Shores knows, there are many more reasons why they should. After all, most women want a lot more out of life than just having fun. Kika, for one, wants to experience the world. But ever since she returned from her yearlong backpacking tour, she’s been steeped in misery, battling rush hour with all the other suits. Getting back on the road is all she wants. So when she’s offered a nanny job in London – the land of Cadbury Cream Eggs – she’s happy at the prospect of going back overseas and getting paid for it. But as she’s about to discover, the most exhilarating adventures can happen when you stay in one place… Wise, witty, and hilarious, Girls Who Travel is an unforgettable novel about the highs and lows of getting what you want—and how it’s the things you least expect that can change your life.
Download or read book The Boy Travellers in Australasia written by Thomas W. Knox and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-11-23 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Boy Travellers in Australasia: Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan, and Feejee Islands, and Through the Colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia The first settlement in Australia was made in 1788; consequently the inhabitants Of the great southern continent are this year cele brating their centennial. Three millions Of people settled in five great colonies, possessing all the characteristics Of an advanced civilization, with the unity developed by a common language and a common alle giance, and the rivalry that springs from the independence Of each colony by itself, are uniting in the centennial celebration, and contrast. Ing the Australia of today with that Of one hundred years ago. Previous to the discovery Of gold in Australia, in 1851, Americans had but little knowledge Of that far-away land. The Opening Of the auriferous fields attracted the attention Of the whole civilized world to the antipodes, and many Americans joined the multitude that went thither in search Of wealth. Since that time our relations with Aus tralia have, year by year, grown more intimate. Railways across our continent and steamship lines over the broad Pacific have brought Sydney and Melbourne in juxtaposition to New York and San F ran cisco, and in this centennial Australian year we may almost regard the British colonies under the Southern Cross as our next-door neighbors. The writer Of this volume is not aware that any illustrated book descriptive of Australia and its neighboring colonies, New Zealand and Tasmania, by an American author, or from an American press, has ever yet appeared. Believing such a book desirable, he sent those youthful veterans of travel, Frank Bassett and Fred Bronson, over the route indi cated on the title-page, with instructions to make careful note Of what they saw and learned. Under the guidance Of their mentor and our Old friend Doctor Bronson they carried out their instructions to the letter, and the results Of their Observations will be found in the following pages. Trusting that the book will meet the favor that has been ao corded to previous volumes Of the Boy Traveller series, they Offer their present work as their contribution to the Australian centennial. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Bibliotheca Americana written by William Elliot Woodward and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Draper in Australia Being a Narrative of Three Years Adventures and Experience at the Gold fields in the Bush and in the Chief Cities of Victoria and New South Wales written by George Willmer and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Road from Coorain written by Jill Ker Conway and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-06-22 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a memoir that pierces and delights us, Jill Ker Conway tells the story of her astonishing journey into adulthood—a journey that would ultimately span immense distances and encompass worlds, ideas, and ways of life that seem a century apart. She was seven before she ever saw another girl child. At eight, still too small to mount her horse unaided, she was galloping miles, alone, across Coorain, her parents' thirty thousand windswept, drought-haunted acres in the Australian outback, doing a "man's job" of helping herd the sheep because World War II had taken away the able-bodied men. She loved (and makes us see and feel) the vast unpeopled landscape, beautiful and hostile, whose uncertain weathers tormented the sheep ranchers with conflicting promises of riches and inescapable disaster. She adored (and makes us know) her large-visioned father and her strong, radiant mother, who had gone willingly with him into a pioneering life of loneliness and bone-breaking toil, who seemed miraculously to succeed in creating a warmly sheltering home in the harsh outback, and who, upon her husband's sudden death when Jill was ten, began to slide—bereft of the partnership of work and love that had so utterly fulfilled her—into depression and dependency. We see Jill, staggered by the loss of her father, catapulted to what seemed another planet—the suburban Sydney of the 1950s and its crowded, noisy, cliquish school life. Then the heady excitement of the University, but with it a yet more demanding course of lessons—Jill embracing new ideas, new possibilities, while at the same time trying to be mother to her mother and resenting it, escaping into drink, pulling herself back, striking a balance. We see her slowly gaining strength, coming into her own emotionally and intellectually and beginning the joyous love affair that gave wings to her newfound self. Worlds away from Coorain, in America, Jill Conway became a historian and the first woman president of Smith College. Her story of Coorain and the road from Coorain startles by its passion and evocative power, by its understanding of the ways in which a total, deep-rooted commitment to place—or to a dream—can at once liberate and imprison. It is a story of childhood as both Eden and anguish, and of growing up as a journey toward the difficult life of the free.
Download or read book Are We There Yet written by Alison Lester and published by Viking. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel around Australia without leaving home! From much-loved children's author Alison Lester comes this gift set containing the classic picture book, a 200-piece jigsaw puzzle and a pack of specially designed playing cards. The Book The year I turned eight, Mum and Dad took us on a trip around Australia. Luke, Billy and I missed school for the whole winter term. Join Grace and her family on their adventurous and sometimes funny expedition. A warm, heartfelt story based on an actual journey undertaken by the much-loved, award-winning author and illustrator, Alison Lester.
Download or read book The Invention of Race written by Nicolas Bancel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection explores the genesis of scientific conceptions of race and their accompanying impact on the taxonomy of human collections internationally as evidenced in ethnographic museums, world fairs, zoological gardens, international colonial exhibitions and ethnic shows. A deep epistemological change took place in Europe in this domain toward the end of the eighteenth century, producing new scientific representations of race and thereby triggering a radical transformation in the visual economy relating to race and racial representation and its inscription in the body. These practices would play defining roles in shaping public consciousness and the representation of “otherness” in modern societies. The Invention of Race provides contextualization that is often lacking in contemporary discussions on diversity, multiculturalism and race.
Download or read book The Draper in Australia Being a Narrative of Three Years Adventures written by George WILLMER and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Road Chose Me Volume 2 written by Dan Grec and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-20 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Searching for even more wild places and new experiences, Dan became determined to explore 'off the map' in Africa. From the mighty Sahara Desert in the north to the dense equatorial jungles of the Congo and the open grasslands of Southern Africa, Dan turned his biggest dream into reality. Over the course of three years Dan's second major expedition spanned fifty-four thousand miles through thirty-five unique African countries. THE ADVENTURE WAS A THOUSAND TIMES BIGGER THAN HE DREAMED POSSIBLE. After exploring the Pan-American Highway from Alaska to Argentina Dan became hooked on the freedom of global overland travel, and he only wanted more. New languages, exotic foods, stunning landscapes and local people with an entirely different outlook became Dan's everyday life. As the months turned into years, through highlights and despair Dan gained a new appreciation for what it truly means to be alive. Viewing our modern world through African eyes gave Dan a new perspective, and he was pulled in by the endless joy, laughter and kindness at every turn. While the landscapes and wildlife are undeniably breathtaking, it is the natural warmth of the African people that is truly unforgettable. All across the continent Dan was welcomed with love and generosity, and now he will never be the same.
Download or read book Adventure Story written by Aleida Grano and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-28 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some years ago two travellers, mounted on wiry yet strong looking steeds, were wending their way through a forest in Australia. They were both young and dressed much alike in broad-brimmed pith hats, loose red shirts, corduroy trousers and high boots with spurs. Each of them had stuck in his belt an axe, a brace of pistols, and a long knife; while at his back was slung a serviceable-looking rifle, showing that they were prepared to defend themselves, should they encounter any treacherous blacks, a very possible contingency at that period of the country's history. They were followed by an active native also mounted, who led a horse carrying their baggage. The scenery was not especially attractive, indeed so great was its sameness that alone they would have been utterly unable to find their way. Read this book and find out what happened next!
Download or read book The Wayward Tourist written by Mark Twain and published by Melbourne University Publish. This book was released on 2007 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the height of his fame, Mark Twain, the great writer and humorist from Missouri, was facing financial ruin from one of his failed business ventures. Broke but much loved he embarked on a money-raising lecture tour around the equator, making a stop in Australia. The Wayward Tourist republishes Mark Twain's Australian travel writing in which he recounts impressions of Sydney ('God made the Harbor a but Satan made Sydney') and his view of Australian history ('[it reads] like the most beautiful lies'). In his introduction, Don Watson brilliantly pays homage to America's 'funny man' who brought his swagger, love of language and wicked talent for observation to our shores.
Download or read book A Life of Travel and Adventure written by Martha Marino and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-11-10 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes Marthas unique experiences of living in Germany, France, Japan, India, Africa, Thailand and China. She also writes about backpacking in the Middle East and Africa and her many solo bike-touring trips which she began in the later part of her life. Her memoirs are full of adventures. She tells about escaping from a civil war in the Sudan, about being engaged in India to an ex-nebab (a Muslim Maharaja) and traveling with her feisty Italian husband who spent 30 years in Africa. Also if youre interested in the cultures of other countries, youll enjoy reading this book.
Download or read book Savage Imaginings written by Lynette Russell and published by Australian Scholary Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the dominant discussions in Australian Aboriginal history. Its central tenet is that European textual representations of Aboriginal Australians have characteristically involved images and imaginings of primitivism, great antiquity and sameness. The author argues that Aboriginal-focussed museum displays, textual studies and photo-essays have reduced Aboriginal culture to a moment frozen in pre-contact time.
Download or read book Adventure written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
