Download or read book The Diggings the Bush and Melbourne Or Reminiscences of Three Years Wanderings in Victoria written by James ARMOUR (C.E.) and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Diggings the Bush and Melbourne or Reminiscences of Three Years Wanderings in Victoria written by James Armour and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a travelog to Australia, written by James Armour, who spent three years there during the Australian gold rush. The reason why the author decides to put his experiences in writing is because, "[It] was written specially for a small circle of intimate acquaintances, who varied the dullness of village life by meeting once a week to read manuscript essays and selections from favorite authors. The time allowed for reading being limited, and the audience being partly composed of young people, I confined myself mainly to personal experience."
Download or read book Australian Autobiographical Narratives written by Kay Walsh and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 1993 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australian Autobiographical Narratives Volume 2 and its partner Volume 1 provide researchers with detailed annotations of published Australian autobiographical writing. Both volumes are a rich resource of the European settlement of Australia. Theis selection concentrates on the post-gold rush period, providing portraits of 533 individuals, from amateur explorers to politicians, from pioneer settlers to sportsmen. Like Volume 1, it offers an intimate and absorbing insight into nineteenth-century Australia.
Download or read book Needlework and Women s Identity in Colonial Australia written by Lorinda Cramer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-05 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In gold-rush Australia, social identity was in flux: gold promised access to fashionable new clothes, a grand home, and the goods to furnish it, but could not buy gentility. Needlework and Women's Identity in Colonial Australia explores how the wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters who migrated to the newly formed colony of Victoria used their needle skills as a powerful claim to social standing. Focusing on one of women's most common daily tasks, the book examines how needlework's practice and products were vital in the contest for social position in the turmoil of the first two decades of the Victorian rush from 1851. Placing women firmly at the center of colonial history, it explores how the needle became a tool for stitching together identity. From decorative needlework to household making and mending, women's sewing was a vehicle for establishing, asserting, and maintaining social status. Interdisciplinary in scope, Needlework and Women's Identity in Colonial Australia draws on material culture, written primary sources, and pictorial evidence, to create a rich portrait of the objects and manners that defined genteel goldfields living. Giving voice to women's experiences and positioning them as key players in the fabric of gold-rush society, this volume offers a fresh critical perspective on gender and textile history.
Download or read book Nothing But Gold written by Robyn Annear and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 1999-01-05 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gold was discovered in Australia in 1851, and within a year the infant colony was transformed from a sump for convicts to a Land of Opportunity. Robyn Annear's lively history describes in detail life on the diggings: the mud of winter and dust of summer, the pluckiness of the women and children, the grog shanties, the flies, the mania of mining, the despair and the delirium, and the much hated licensing system which was to culminate in the Eureka Stockade. 'Robyn Annear tells the story of the 1852 gold rushes in imaginative detail ... she tells us how it felt to be there. You find yourself worrying about the problems long ago resolved, sharply aware of the gold diggers' hopes and ordeals, diverted by the high comedy of a chaotic life. Like all good narratives, it looks easy because it is so easily read and enjoyed ... She makes a mosaic out of small moments of experience ... The physical realities of the diggings are evoked, with all the ingenious ways of managing tent space, cooking, guarding gold, finding feed for horses, keeping off wind and rain, ants and mice.' Brenda Niall Robyn Annear was born in Melbourne in 1960. She spends her time writing and researching, typing for other people and looking after her family. She is also a part-time bookseller and President of the Friends of the Castlemaine Library. 'History from the inside; wonderfully entertaining.' Age 'A welcome addition to Australian history, pointing to badly needed ways in which history can be made more reader-friendly.' Quadrant
Download or read book Catalogue of the Books Pamphlets Pictures and Maps in the Library of Parliament to September 1911 written by Commonwealth Parliamentary Library (Australia) and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Illustrated Catalogue of an Interesting Collection of Fine Rare Books Beautiful Bindings Manuscripts Autographs First Editions Standard Library Sets Art Books Together with a Selection of Miscellaneous Literature at Bargain Prices written by Charles James Sawyer and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Single Tree written by Don Watson and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2016-10-31 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Single Tree assembles the raw material underpinning Don Watson’s award-winning The Bush. These diverse and haunting voices span the four centuries since Europeans first set eyes on the continent. Each of these varied contributors – settlers, explorers, anthropologists, naturalists, stockmen, surveyors, itinerants, artists and writers– represents a particular place and time. Men in awe of the landscape or cursing it; aspiring to subdue and exploit it or finding themselves defeated by it. Women reflecting on the land’s harshness and beauty, on the strangeness of their lives, their pleasures and miseries, the character and behaviour of the men. Europeans writing about indigenous Australians, sometimes with intelligent sympathy and curiosity but often with contempt, and often describing acts of startling brutality. This collection comprises diary extracts, memoirs, journals, letters, histories, poems and fiction, and follows the same loose themes of The Bush. The science of the landscape and climate, and the way we have perceived them. Our deep and sentimental connection to the land, and our equally deep ignorance and abuse of it. The heroic myths and legends. The enchantments. The bush as a formative and defining element in Australian culture, self-image and character. The flora and fauna, the waterways, the colours. The heroic, self-defining stories, the bizarre and terrible, and the ones lost in the deep silences. There are accounts of journeys, of work and recreation, of religious observance, of creation and destruction. Stories of uncanny events, peculiar and fantastic characters, deep ironies, and of land unlimited. And musings on what might be the future of the bush: as a unique environment, a food bowl, a mine, a wellspring of national identity . . . From Dampier and Tasman to Tim Flannery and assorted contemporary farmers, environmentalists and grey nomads, these pieces represent a vast array of experiences, perspectives and knowledge. A Single Tree is an essential companion to its brilliant predecessor.
Download or read book Victorian History and Politics written by Joanna Monie and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Mug s Game written by John O'Hara and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gambling is a national obsession in Australia and has been an integral part of the country's history since the first convicts and settlers arrived. This is a complete history of the extraordinary relationship between Australians and gaming of all kinds. Acidic paper. Available in North American from ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Voyages and Travels in All Parts of the World written by Maggs Bros and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Australian Literature to 1900 written by B. G. Andrews and published by Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Company. This book was released on 1980 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lists sources by topic and author.
Download or read book Catalogue of Australiana from the Library of Dr Eric McDonald written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue written by Maggs Bros and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue written by Francis Edwards and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogues written by Bernard Quaritch (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Australian New Zealand Literature in the Pennsylvania State University Libraries written by Nan Bowman Albinski and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
