Download or read book The Ghost Cities of Australia written by Julian Bolleter and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-02 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines failed new city proposals in Australia to understand the hurdles – environmental, societal, and economic – that have curtailed such visions. The lessons from these relative failures are important because, if projections for Australia’s 21st century population growth are borne out, we will need to build new cities this century. This is particularly the case in northern Australia, where the federal government projects a four-fold increase in population in the next four decades. The book aims that, when we commence 21st century new city dreaming, we have learnt from the mistakes of the past and, are not doomed to repeat them.
Download or read book Ghost Towns of Australia written by George Michell Farwell and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ghost Towns of Australia written by George Farwell and published by Adelaide : Rigby. This book was released on 1976 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brief references to Aborigines, NT, Qld, including pp.76-78; Jack the Ripper, Innamincka and pituri trade (SA); pp.136-172; 19th century violent conflicts, poor relations with settlers, miners; employment on coffee plantations, cannibalism in Port Douglas, Palmer and Daintree Rivers area; pp.216-223; Port Essington Malay trade, hostilities.
Download or read book Ghost Towns of Australia written by George Farwell and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Australian Ghost Towns written by Barry McGowan and published by Lothian Children's Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Other cultures have lost civilisations, we have ghost towns. Australian landscapes are littered with the half-buried remains of once thriving towns. The renowned pioneering spirit of settler society often faltered under the onslaught of changed circumstances--mine yields that declined, industry that failed and the end of penal colonies. Some towns are in ruins today, while others have become tourist destinations, such as Port Douglas, Port Arthur and Oodnadatta. This extensively researched book delves into the stories of these ghost towns--rich with memories of turmoil, perseverance, resistance and dogged optimism
Download or read book Ghost Cities of China written by Wade Shepard and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-09 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring everything from sports stadiums to shopping malls, hundreds of new cities in China stand empty, with hundreds more set to be built by 2030. Between now and then, the country's urban population will leap to over one billion, as the central government kicks its urbanization initiative into overdrive. In the process, traditional social structures are being torn apart, and a rootless, semi-displaced, consumption orientated culture rapidly taking their place. Ghost Cities of China is an enthralling dialogue driven, on-location search for an understanding of China's new cities and the reasons why many currently stand empty.
Download or read book Ghost Towns written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Far and Wide No 50 Autumn 1959 written by Ronald Campbell and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gap Year in Ghost Town written by Michael Pryor and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2017-07-26 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let's get this straight - ghosts are everywhere. And they're dangerous. This is why my family has hunted them for hundreds of years. The Marin family run a two-man operation in inner-city Melbourne. Anton has the ghost-sight, but his father does not. Theirs is a gentle approach to ghost hunting. Rani Cross, combat-skilled ghost hunter from the Company of the Righteous, is all about the slashing. Anton and Rani don't see eye to eye - but with a massive spike in violent ghost manifestations, they must find a way to work together. And what with all the blindingly terrifying brushes with death, Anton must use his gap year to decide if he really wants in on the whole ghost-hunting biz . . . Gap Year in Ghost Town is smart, funny and scary - with extra action and attitude. 'FILLED WITH GHOSTLY INTRIGUE AND DELIGHTFUL CHARACTERS, MICHAEL PRYOR'S LATEST NOVEL IS PURE ENTERTAINMENT.' Books + Publishing
Download or read book Graveyard Shift in Ghost Town written by Michael Pryor and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2019-07-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So, how's my gap year going? Is it giving me a taste of the ghost-hunting business or is it just dumping me into situations where I could end up dead, or worse? Lingerers. Moaners. Thugs. Weepers. So many ghosts. Not enough graveyard shifts in a night. When an extreme ghost plague descends on the city, Anton and Rani must work overtime to keep the city safe and to find the source of the new aggressive ghost outbreak. And it amps up to another level after ghost hunters become the hunted. Anton and Rani will need all their wits and wiles about them if they are to manage the ghost influx, get to the truth about the Elsewhere and navigate the night with all their limbs intact. Graveyard Shift in Ghost Town is thoroughly entertaining and full of nail-biting ghostly action and adventure.
Download or read book Abandoned Australia written by Shane Thoms and published by Jonglez Photo Books. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digging beneath the sun-baked soil, Shane Thoms uncovers the modern ruins scattered over this arid continent and reveals a series of beautifully broken abodes hiding in the crevices of the Great Southern Land.
Download or read book Ghost Cities written by Siang Lu and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghost Cities &– inspired by the vacant, uninhabited megacities of China &– follows multiple narratives, including one in which a young man named Xiang is fired from his job as a translator at Sydney's Chinese Consulate after it is discovered he doesn' t speak a word of Chinese and has been relying entirely on Google Translate for his work. How is his relocation to one such ghost city connected to a parallel odyssey in which an ancient Emperor creates a thousand doubles of Himself? Or where a horny mountain gains sentience? Where a chess-playing automaton hides a deadly secret? Or a tale in which every book in the known Empire is destroyed &– then re-created, page by page and book by book, all in the name of love and art? Allegorical and imaginative, Ghost Cities will appeal to readers of Haruki Murakami and Italo Calvino.
Download or read book Ghost Towns of Route 66 written by Jim Hinckley and published by Quarto Publishing Group USA. This book was released on 2011-06-09 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the mystery and beauty of historic ghost towns from Illinois to California with this gorgeously illustrated guide to America’s favorite highway. The quintessential boom-and-bust highway of the American West, Route 66 once hosted a thriving array of boom towns built around oil wells, railroad stops, cattle ranches, resorts, stagecoach stops, and gold mines. Join Route 66 expert Jim Hinckley as he tours more than twenty-five ghost towns, rich in stories and history, complemented by gorgeous sepia-tone and color photography by Kerrick James. Also includes directions and travel tips for your ghost-town explorations along Route 66.
Download or read book Australia s Remarkable Places written by Frances Payne and published by Redback Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-27 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where can you go to see what the Earth might have looked like billions of years ago? Outback Australia has some of the oldest landscapes in the world, with meteor craters that cover tens of kilometres. In this book you will also discover the ghost towns and underground communities that all help to make Australia such an interesting place to live or visit. How much do you really know about Australia? Did you know that the whole continent is on the move, or that Aussies were the first to use penicillin? Dip in anywhere throughout this series to find masses of mini articles on everything you could want to know about Australia.
Download or read book Roiling Dust written by Herm Zandman and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-12-21 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After working line haul along the Australian roads, former teacher Herm Zandman decided to switch gears hauling grain and fertilizer across Outback Australia. It turned out to be a trucking experience vastly different from the one which he described in his two books Blood, Sweat and Gears and Its Not a Truck! Its a B-Double! This story takes the reader through the vastness of the Outback in a bulk tipper B-Double. The common theme running through the book is the puniness of human scratches on the vast expanse. Roiling dust, created by Outback travelers like road trains and B-Doubles, settles quickly once the rigs have traveled through and serenity returns as if nothing had ever stirred the landscape. In the book, the author relates first hand experiences with the land, the people, the flora and fauna, plus a number of unique Outback activities and touristic attractions that can be found by the discerning tourist and the roaming truck driver. Dr Zandman and his wife currently reside in South Australia. He is still trucking at the time of writing, this time on a milk haulage B-Double, the target of his next childrens book Tanker 80.
Download or read book Nifty What Next Ghost Cities written by Amit Pandya and published by AKruti Prints & Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-31 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Farina written by Rob Olston and published by . This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of a small town in far north South Australia.
