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Book The Mahogany Ship  Relic Or Legend

Download or read book The Mahogany Ship Relic Or Legend written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Mahogany Ship  Relic Or Legend

Download or read book The Mahogany Ship Relic Or Legend written by Bill Potter and published by . This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The A to Z of the Discovery and Exploration of Australia

Download or read book The A to Z of the Discovery and Exploration of Australia written by Alan Day and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-06-19 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging reference examines the history of, the search for, and the discovery of Australia, taking full account of the evidence for and the speculation surrounding possible earlier contacts by the Ancient Egyptians, Arabs, and Chinese seamen. Day brings the expeditions to life, expressing the desires that drove great sea captains deeper into turbulent waters searching for caches of spice, silks, and precious metals. Covers a wide variety of topics, including _ Seamen from eight nations _ The recovery of storm wrecked ships _ Diplomatic treaties _ Priority of discovery disputes _ Military and civil explorers and surveyors _ Topographical features _ Geographical terms and places _ Rivers and river system

Book Batavia s Graveyard

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mike Dash
  • Publisher : Crown
  • Release : 2003-05-27
  • ISBN : 0609807161
  • Pages : 514 pages

Download or read book Batavia s Graveyard written by Mike Dash and published by Crown. This book was released on 2003-05-27 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1628 the Dutch East India Company loaded the Batavia, the flagship of its fleet, with a king’s ransom in gold, silver, and gems for her maiden voyage to Java; the ship itself was a tangible symbol of the world’s richest and most powerful monopoly. The company also sent along a new employee to guard its treasure. He was Jeronimus Corneliszoon, a disgraced and bankrupt man with great charisma and dangerously heretical ideas. With the help of a few disgruntled sailors, he hatched a plot to seize the ship and her riches. The mutiny might have succeeded, but in the dark morning hours of June 3, 1629, the Batavia smashed through a coral reef and ran aground on a small chain of islands near Australia. The captain and skipper escaped the wreck, and in a tiny lifeboat they set sail for Java—some 1,500 miles north—to summon help. More than 250 frightened survivors waded ashore, thankful to be alive. Unfortunately, Jeronimus and the mutineers had survived too, and the nightmare was only beginning.

Book Please God Send Me a Wreck

Download or read book Please God Send Me a Wreck written by Brad Duncan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-05-25 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the historical and archaeological evidence of the relationships between a coastal community and the shipwrecks that have occurred along the southern Australian shoreline over the last 160 years. It moves beyond a focus on shipwrecks as events and shows the short and long term economic, social and symbolic significance of wrecks and strandings to the people on the shoreline. This volume draws on extensive oral histories, documentary and archaeological research to examine the tensions within the community, negotiating its way between its roles as shipwreck saviours and salvors.

Book Historical Dictionary of the Discovery and Exploration of Australia

Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Discovery and Exploration of Australia written by Alan Edwin Day and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All aspects of the discovery of Australia are revealed in this ground-breaking work. It is especially useful for its comprehensive gallery of the exploits and achievements of the key figures in Australian Exploration.

Book Maritime Archaeology

Download or read book Maritime Archaeology written by Jeremy Green and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeremy Green's systematic overview of maritime archaeology offers a step-by-step description of this fast-growing field. With new information about the use of computers and Global Positioning Systems, the second edition of this handbook shows how to extract as much information as possible from a site, how to record and document the data, and how to act ethically and responsibly with the artifacts. Treating underwater archaeology as a discipline, the book demonstrates how archaeologists, "looters," academics, and governments interact and how the market for archaeological artifacts creates obstacles and opportunities for these groups. Well illustrated and comprehensive in its approach to the subject, this book provides an essential foundation for everybody interested in underwater environments, submerged land structures, and conditions created by sea level changes.

Book Australian National Bibliography

Download or read book Australian National Bibliography written by and published by . This book was released on 1996-12 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cultural Heritage Management in China

Download or read book Cultural Heritage Management in China written by Hilary Du Cros and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-03-27 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural Heritage Management in China presents a thematic examination of the development of cultural heritage management (CHM) in an Asian context. It challenges assumptions of the primacy of community-sponsored action and heritage authority based on Western-derived ideals and practices that fit with democratic models for civil action. The multidisciplinary team of international contributors analyze four key case studies of cities along the Pearl River Delta examining their administrative characteristics, economic growth and their relationship with cultural identity and human relationships. Providing an innovative study of cultural heritage management, this book will be of interest to students of Asian and cultural studies, as well as offering valuable insights into Asian culture and society itself.

Book Navigating by the Southern Cross

Download or read book Navigating by the Southern Cross written by Kenneth Morgan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-28 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comprehensive study, Kenneth Morgan provides an authoritative account of European exploration and discovery in Australia. The book presents a detailed chronological overview of European interests in the Australian continent, from initial speculations about the 'Great Southern Land' to the major hydrographic expeditions of the 19th century. In particular, he analyses the early crossings of the Dutch in the 17th century, the exploits of English 'buccaneer adventurer' William Dampier, the famous voyages of James Cook and Matthew Flinders, and the little-known French annexation of Australia in 1772. Introducing new findings and drawing on the latest in historiographical research, this book situates developments in navigation, nautical astronomy and cartography within the broader contexts of imperial, colonial, and maritime history.

Book Victorian History and Politics

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:

Book Encounters in Place

    Book Details:
  • Author : Derek John Mulvaney
  • Publisher : University of Queensland Press(Australia)
  • Release : 1989
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book Encounters in Place written by Derek John Mulvaney and published by University of Queensland Press(Australia). This book was released on 1989 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meetings between Aborigines and people from other lands, from the time of the first Dutch contacts in 1606 to the transfer of Uluru to Aboriginal ownership in 1985; protocol of Aboriginal encounters; Johnny Mullagh; Nathaniel Pepper; Ebenezer, Cootamundra; Uluru; Hermannsburg; Coranderrk; Adventure Bay; Cape Grim; Wybelenna; Oyster Cove; Moorundie; Molong; Poonindie; Marree; Moree; Bernier Island; Dorre Island.

Book Pre Tasman Portuguese Down Under

Download or read book Pre Tasman Portuguese Down Under written by John Tasker and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than 200 years, scholars and amateurs alike have wrestled with the problem -- did sixteenth century Portuguese navigators sail down the east coast of Australia and along the shores of New Zealand, charting the coastlines as they went? Employing endless speculation, all kinds of people have proposed all kinds of theories, not one of which resulted in a resolution over those two centuries. This book is different. Forsaking the speculation and guesswork model, it finally lays the matter to rest beyond all reasonable doubt

Book Marine Archaeology of Indian Ocean Countries

Download or read book Marine Archaeology of Indian Ocean Countries written by Shikaripur Ranganatha Rao and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: