Download or read book They Shall See His Face written by Linda Banks and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amy Oxley Wilkinson was a well-known missionary in both China and the West in the early twentieth century. Initially setting up a mission station in a remote area of Fujian Province, she became aware of the way blind children were neglected, hidden, or abandoned in China at the time. After finding a blind boy left to die in a ditch, she established an innovative Blind Boys School in Fuzhou. Meanwhile her husband, Dr. George Wilkinson, set up the city's first hospital and introduced a program to address the pervasive curse of opium addiction. Amy's holistic and vocational approach to disability education brought her national and later international recognition. In 1920, the president of the new Chinese republic awarded her the Order of the Golden Grain, the highest honor a foreigner could receive. Two years later, Amy and the school's brass band toured England and performed before Queen Mary. Amy's story highlights the significance of contributions by women missionaries to the development of early modern China, and is a challenge to anyone committed to making their life count for others. Her Blind School remains a major institution in Fuzhou to this day.

Download or read book A Wide Open Land written by Peter Ridgeway and published by Peter Ridgeway. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Winter of 2019 Peter Ridgeway set out to walk 179 kilometres across the Cumberland Plain, the region of rural land west of Sydney. Carrying his food and water and camping under the stars, he crossed one of the least-known landscapes in Australia, all within view of its largest city. This book recounts a unique journey across a landscape few Australians will ever see. In this open country the familiar forests of Sydney's sandstone are replaced by a fertile world of open woodlands, native grasslands and wetlands, home to some of the Nation's most unique and endangered wildlife. The traditional land of the Darug, Gundungurra, and Dharawal peoples, and the birthplace of the first Australian colony, it is a landscape which also holds the key to our entwined and conflicted origins. What was once a limitless tract of woodland is now being engulfed by the city to it's east in the largest construction project ever undertaken in the Southern Hemisphere - the elimination of an ecosystem and a community. This book provides an immersion in the history, wildlife, and culture of one of Australia's most rapidly vanishing landscapes, and reveals how the destruction of 'the West' is erasing not only itself, but something central to the identity of all Australians.

Download or read book Australian National Bibliography 1992 written by National Library of Australia and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 1988 with total page 1976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book St Paul s Anglican Cemetery written by Camden Area Family History Society Inc and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A transcript of the cemetery and is referenced to the work carried out by Nepean Family History Society and also by John Burge. The work was completed with references to the NSW births deaths and marrieges website, SMH death notices and the Telegraph newspaper using the Ryerson Index, Camden Pioneer Register 3rd Ed. and information held on the CAFHS Database and information on surviving headstones.

Download or read book Pioneers at Rest written by Daphne Koob and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book All That Swagger written by Miles Franklin and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-18 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All That Swagger has been acclaimed by pundits as one of the best Australian books yet composed. The story develops from the center outwards from one who feels the enchantment of Australia. The characters are established in the dirt, the woodland, as the early pioneers were. One subject anxieties character - that backbone of direction, hardihood boldness, honesty, which should perpetually be the establishment of any stable and moral State or condition of society. It introduces the courageous independence with which the extraordinary Australian landmass has been investigated, studied, fenced, cleared, furrowed, and is presently monitored by a virile people. Here is an immense canvas, State-wide, and as long as history itself - to the extent that it contains the depiction of life and improvement in this station of the British Empire. Aptitude and condition have productively consolidated in the generation. The author moves living pieces on the squares of a mammoth chessboard, and she plays the game such that shows obviously that she comprehends the gambit of life and every one of its varieties. All That Swagger is all Australian in each word. Just an Australian could have composed it.

Download or read book A Cargo of Women written by Babette Smith and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intrigued to discover a convict ancestor in her family tree, Babette Smith decided to investigate her life and the lives of the 99 women who were transported with her on the ship Princess Royal in 1829. Piece by piece she reveals the story of her ancestor the indomitable Susannah Watson who, trapped in the crowded filthy slums of Nottingham, stole because she could not bear to see her children starving'. Separated forever from her husband and four children, she was transported to Australia for 14 years. She endured the convict system at its worst, yet emerged triumphant to die in her bed aged 83 singing Rock of Ages'. Babette Smith reconstructs the lives of the women from the Princess Royal from fragments of information in shipping lists, official records, newspapers and court transcripts. Her research overturns stereotypes of women convicts as drunken whores and criminals. Caught in an England convulsed by change, they become the unwitting and unwilling pioneers of a new land. Many proved to be resourceful and resilient, taking advantage of the opportunities offered by a new society. First published two decades ago, A Cargo of Women became a bestseller and remains one of the most valuable accounts of convict life in Australia. This new edition includes further information about the women from the Princess Royal and new illustrations. 'Smith comes as close as any historian has come to reconstructing the complex experience of a convict woman an absorbing story.' - Kay Daniels, Australian Historical Studies

Download or read book Australian Almanac written by and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sydney Burial Ground 1819 1901 written by Keith A. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book On Our Selection written by Steele Rudd and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-04-04 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: On Our Selection by Steele Rudd

Download or read book Global Islamophobia written by George Morgan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The decade since 9/11 has seen a decline in liberal tolerance in the West as Muslims have endured increasing levels of repression. This book presents a series of case studies from Western Europe, Australia and North America demonstrating the transnational character of Islamophobia. The authors explore contemporary intercultural conflicts using the concept of moral panic, revitalised for the era of globalisation. Exploring various sites of conflict, Global Islamophobia considers the role played by 'moral entrepreneurs' in orchestrating popular xenophobia and in agitating for greater surveillance, policing and cultural regulation of those deemed a threat to the nation's security or imagined community. This timely collection examines the interpenetration of the global and the local in the West's cultural politics towards Islam, highlighting parallels in the responses of governments and in the worrying reversion to a politics of coercion and assimilation. As such, it will be of interest to scholars of sociology and politics with interests in race and ethnicity; citizenship and assimilation; political communication, securitisation and The War on Terror; and moral panics.

Download or read book They Worked at Camden Park written by John Wrigley and published by . This book was released on 2018-09 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An alphabetical listing of the workers on the Camden Park Estate of the Macarthur family.

Download or read book Maryland Bringelly written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book St Jude s Cemetery Randwick written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The South Australian Government Gazette written by South Australia and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 1454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Old Razorback Road written by Elizabeth Villy and published by Rosenberg Pub Pty Limited. This book was released on 2011 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Australia's state of New South Wales, the Great South Road was built in order to transport wool, tallow, hides, and other goods to Sydney's docks. The chosen route was over the Razorback Range, a jagged range of steep cliffs and rocky spurs with an unstable, porous, sandstone base that shifted and lurched with the heavy rains. The Razorback was a nightmare for the convicts who built it and for the travellers forced to endure its horrors. This detailed book documents the local stories of the people who travelled, worked, or lived on the Razorback, and who were seminal to the development of the country: the migrants, teamsters, tramps, gold escorts, toiling convicts, and bushrangers who terrorized settlers and travellers alike. It is a century of history brought to life. The Old Razorback Road is atmospheric and timeless, presented in a sense of freshness and adventure through its account of the people and their lives.

Download or read book Anzacs of Macarthur written by Hokin and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First World War was one of the most momentous incidences of recorded history, and a catalyst for much of the events of the 20th Century. Thus, it has become an integral part of Australia's national narrative. It left an insoluble scar on many communities around the country, including the Macarthur region in NSW. This book is a resource of their war time stories, examining the military service of soldiers, sailors and nurses throughout various theatres of war, and those waiting anxiously on the home front. Many sacrificed everything in support of the war effort. So get ready to take your first step in discovering an insight into the lives of your ancestors, fellow townsfolk and countrymen, who have helped to shape our history. Lest We Forget