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Book The Incomparable Captain Cadell

Download or read book The Incomparable Captain Cadell written by John Nicholson and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2004 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of Francis Cadell (1822-1879), who left his Scotland home at the age of 14 to pursue a wandering life that encompassed sea-captaincy, pirate-battling, ship-building, exploration, business enterprise, and the establishment of a major transportation network on the Murray-Darling river system.

Book Captain Cadell s services

Download or read book Captain Cadell s services written by Francis Cadell and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Blood Brothers

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  • Author : Jeff Hopkins-Weise
  • Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
  • Release : 2007-01-22
  • ISBN : 1742288626
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book Blood Brothers written by Jeff Hopkins-Weise and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2007-01-22 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the middle of the nineteenth century, the very existence of European colonial settlement in New Zealand was under threat. With Queen Victoria's British forces stretched thinly across the globe, the New Zealand colony had to look to its sister colonial states in Australia for support. This ground-breaking work shows, for the first time in detail, how the military, social and economic brotherhood later embodied in the notion of the Anzac spirit began not on the sandy beaches of Gallipoli but 50 years earlier in the damp forests and fields of the North Island of New Zealand

Book Octopus Crowd

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  • Author : Stephen Mullins
  • Publisher : University Alabama Press
  • Release : 2019-08-13
  • ISBN : 0817320245
  • Pages : 337 pages

Download or read book Octopus Crowd written by Stephen Mullins and published by University Alabama Press. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed study of the origins and demise of schooner-based pearling in Australia For most of its history, Australian pearling was a shore-based activity. But from the mid-1880s until the World War I era, the industry was dominated by highly mobile, heavily capitalized, schooner-based fleets of pearling luggers, known as floating stations, that exploited Australia’s northern continental shelf and the nearby waters of the Netherlands Indies. Octopus Crowd: Maritime History and the Business of Australian Pearling in Its Schooner Age is the first book-length study of schooner-based pearling and explores the floating station system and the men who developed and employed it. Steve Mullins focuses on the Clark Combination, a syndicate led by James Clark, Australia’s most influential pearler. The combination honed the floating station system to the point where it was accused of exhausting pearling grounds, elbowing out small-time operators, strangling the economies of pearling ports, and bringing the industry to the brink of disaster. Combination partners were vilified as monopolists—they were referred to as an “octopus crowd”—and their schooners were stigmatized as hell ships and floating sweatshops. Schooner-based floating stations crossed maritime frontiers with impunity, testing colonial and national territorial jurisdictions. The Clark Combination passed through four fisheries management regimes, triggering significant change and causing governments to alter laws and extend maritime boundaries. It drew labor from ports across the Asia-Pacific, and its product competed in a volatile world market. Octopus Crowd takes all of these factors into account to explain Australian pearling during its schooner age. It argues that the demise of the floating station system was not caused by resource depletion, as was often predicted, but by ideology and Australia’s shifting sociopolitical landscape

Book Ochre and Rust

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  • Author : Philip Jones
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2019-02-01
  • ISBN : 1787380858
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Ochre and Rust written by Philip Jones and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ochre and Rust offers a fresh perspective on frontier relations between Australian Aboriginal people and European colonists. Nine museum artefacts take the reader into a fascinating zone of encounter and mutual curiosity between collectors and those indigenous people who piqued or responded to their interest. While colonialism is the broad frame, details gleaned from archives, images and the objects themselves reveal a new picture of interaction between individual Aboriginal people and European collectors. Philip Jones explores and makes sense of particular historical moments in colonial history, when Aboriginal people perceived and expected other, more elusive outcomes. Ochre and Rust, an elegantly written challenge to received wisdom about the colonial frontier, has won Australia's inaugural Prime Minister's Award for Literary Non-Fiction.

Book Captain Cadell s services

Download or read book Captain Cadell s services written by and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Scots in Australia

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  • Author : Malcolm David Prentis
  • Publisher : UNSW Press
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 9781921410215
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book The Scots in Australia written by Malcolm David Prentis and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a highly descriptive account of the Scots in Australia from 1788 to the present. It shows that the Scots have made a major contribution to all aspects of Australian life. It is aimed at non-specialist general readers, although much of the audience will be Scottish."-- Provided by publisher.

Book A Journey in Antipodean Land

Download or read book A Journey in Antipodean Land written by Norma B. Hennessy and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the journey of Filipino-Australian culture, a chapter of Australia?s multicultural history that little is known about. In searching for answers to fill some blank spaces in the Filipino-Australian heritage, this book delves into the wanderlust of its pioneers ? the early Manilamen whose ?diasporic? trajectories began with the Manila-Acapulco galleon trade.It traces the beginnings of their presence in the northern coastal region of Australia. It traces that heritage through intricate and sometimes blurry threads of history. The journey explores a people and a many-sided culture that every now and then emerges from the shadows of its benevolent conquistador. It explores the controversial issue of Filipino women?s exodus in the 1980s and reaches out to the fringes of the new millennium.

Book Australian Book Review

Download or read book Australian Book Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Encyclopedia of Exploration  1850 to 1940

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Exploration 1850 to 1940 written by Raymond John Howgego and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 1128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney  Volume V  1782 1783

Download or read book The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney Volume V 1782 1783 written by Lars E. Troide and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2012-03-19 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume V of The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney covers a period of significant gains and losses for the young writer. Professionally, Burney consolidated her reputation as England's premier novelist with the publication of Cecilia. Through a mutual friendship she gained an appointment as Keeper of the Robes to Queen Charlotte, a position that provided both financial security and an insider's view to life at Court. Burney's professional success during these years was balanced by countless personal setbacks. Deprived of the companionship of her favourite sister following her sister's marriage, she also lost the friendship of Hester Lynch Thrale who grew increasingly distant during her romantic attachment to Gabriel Piozzi (whom she married in 1784). The death of her dear friend and mentor Samuel Crisp causes Burney deep sadness, and her emotional turmoil is further exacerbated by her introduction to George Owen Cambridge, a young clergyman to whom she is clearly attracted but who refuses to either declare himself to her, or leave her in peace. Throughout these trials and triumphs, Burney - an artist with an acute sense of the complexities and vagaries of human nature - never ceases to fix her lens on the fashions and follies of English society as they emerge in the manners of her time.

Book The Publishers Weekly

Download or read book The Publishers Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Book Publishing Record

Download or read book American Book Publishing Record written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Notes and Queries

Download or read book Notes and Queries written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Asia Pacific Shipping

Download or read book Asia Pacific Shipping written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book    The    Athenaeum

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1837
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 972 pages

Download or read book The Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The London Gazette

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1859
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1474 pages

Download or read book The London Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 1474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: