Download or read book Walkabout Year written by Sam Pickering and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pickering is the teacher portrayed by Robin Williams in author's account of a sabbatical year in Perth.
Download or read book Walkabout Australia and the South Seas Feb 1 1935 written by and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Kangchenjunga Adventure written by Frank Smythe and published by Vertebrate Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'We went to Kangchenjunga in response not to the dictates of science, but in obedience to that indefinable urge men call adventure.' In 1930, an expedition set out to climb the world's third-highest mountain, Kangchenjunga. As yet unclimbed, a number of attempts had been made on the peak, including two in the previous year. The Kangchenjunga Adventure records Frank Smythe's attempts as part of an international team to reach the summit, how a deadly avalanche, which killed one of the sherpas, brought an end to their climb and how they turned their attentions instead to Jonsong Peak, which offered a more appealing alternative to risky assaults on the greatest peaks. Smythe's books from this period give compelling reads for anyone with an interest in mountaineering: riveting adventures on the highest peaks in the world, keen observations of the mountain landscape and a fascinating window into early mountaineering, colonial attitudes and Himalayan exploration. Smythe was one of the leading mountaineers of the twentieth century, an outstanding climber who, in his short life - he died aged forty-nine -was at the centre of high-altitude mountaineering development in its early years. He climbed extensively in the Alps, gained the summit of Kamet (the highest peak then climbed) in 1931 and, on the 1933 Everest Expedition, reached a point higher than ever before achieved. Author of twenty-seven immensely popular books, he was an early example of the climber as celebrity.
Download or read book Should I Go Walkabout in Australia written by John Timms and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2018-01-17 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is not only about travel but about people we met on the road and the problems encountered when using an American Motorhome (RV), which had seen better days and was difficult with spare parts. She comments on aboriginal life and many other asides. We have so many colorful photos that it will be difficult to pick them from our collection. “This diary covers the route from Currumbin(Southern Gold Coast) down the New South Coast to Cowes and Melbourne. Up the Inland route of New South Wales via Dubbo , Glen Innes, Casino and up the Queensland Coast to Cooktown then back to Currumbin”. Visit www.gowalkaboutaustralia.com for more information.
Download or read book Walkabout written by James Vance Marshall and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1979 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The widely acclaimed illustration of a contrast of cultures in which young European air crash survivors inadvertently 'murder' their Aboriginal saviour.
Download or read book Walkabout written by James Vance Marshall and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A plane crashes in the vast Northern Territory of Australia, and the only survivors are two children from Charleston, South Carolina, on their way to visit their uncle in Adelaide. Mary and her younger brother, Peter, set out on foot, lost in the vast, hot Australian outback. They are saved by a chance meeting with an unnamed Aboriginal boy on walkabout. He looks after the two strange white children and shows them how to find food and water in the wilderness, and yet, for all that, Mary is filled with distrust. On the surface Walkabout is an adventure story, but darker themes lie beneath. Peter’s innocent friendship with the boy met in the desert throws into relief Mary’s half-adult anxieties, and the book as a whole raises questions about what is lost—and may be saved—when different worlds meet. And in reading Marshall’s extraordinary evocations of the beautiful yet forbidding landscape of the Australian desert, perhaps the most striking presence of all in this small, perfect book, we realize that this tale—a deep yet disturbing story in the spirit of Adalbert Stifter’s Rock Crystal and Richard Hughes’s A High Wind in Jamaica—is also a reckoning with the mysteriously regenerative powers of death.
Download or read book Walkabout s Australia written by Walkabout and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Travelling Home Walkabout Magazine and Mid Twentieth Century Australia written by Mitchell Rolls and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2016-07-06 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Walkabout' was one of the most popular magazines in mid-twentieth century Australia, educating local and international readers about the Australian landscape, its peoples and industry. It featured many of the most interesting writers, natural scientists and commentators. This book investigates 'Walkabout’ magazine's pivotal role in Australian cultural history.
Download or read book Walkabout in Australia written by Richard Woldendorp and published by . This book was released on 197? with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Australian Walkabout written by Brian McArdle and published by [Melbourne] : Landsdowne. This book was released on 1968 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Walkabout written by Louis Nowra and published by Currency Press Pty Limited. This book was released on 2003 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicolas Roeg's 'Walkabout' opened world-wide in 1971. It is the story of two white children lost in the Australian Outback. They survive only through the help of an Aboriginal boy who is on walkabout during his initiation into manhood. The film earned itself a unique place in cinematic history and was re-released in 1998. In this illuminating reflection, Louis Nowra, one of Australia's leading dramatists and screenwriters, discusses Australia's iconic sense of the outback; and the peculiar resonance that the story of the lost child has in the Australian psyche. He tells how the film came to be made and how its preoccupations fit into the oeuvre of both its director and cinematographer Nicolas Roeg, and its screenwriter Edward Bond. Nowra identifies the film's distinctive take on a familiar story and its fable-like qualities, while also exploring the film's relationship to Australia and its implications for the English society of its day. He recognises how relevant the film is to the contemporary struggle to try and find common ground between blacks and white.
Download or read book When We Go Walkabout written by Rhoda Lalara and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2014-01-29 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yirruwa yirrilikenuma-langwa, amiyembena yirrirringka yirruwa? When we go walkabout, what do we see? Up in a tree there is something flapping its wings at us. Duwedirra! Cockatoo! Down in the river we see something staring at us. Dingarrbiya! Crocodile! Back home there is someone waiting for us . Dungkwarrika! Grandma! A beautiful story for the very young that brings to vivid life the unique world of Groote Eylandt. 'We want our children to hear a story and know where it's come from and where it's travelled.' Rhoda Lalara 'As children we used to go walkabout with our grandmothers and see the animals. Now we take our own kids out.' Alfred Lalara This edition includes a QR code link to hear Rhoda Larlara read the text in Anindilyakwa. This book was produced through the Emerging Indigenous Picture Book Mentoring Project, a joint initiative between The Little Big Book Club and Allen & Unwin, assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
Download or read book Australian Travellers in the South Seas written by Nicholas Halter and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2021-02-08 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a wide-ranging survey of Australian engagement with the Pacific Islands in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Through over 100 hitherto largely unexplored accounts of travel, the author explores how representations of the Pacific Islands in letters, diaries, reminiscences, books, newspapers and magazines contributed to popular ideas of the Pacific Islands in Australia. It offers a range of valuable insights into continuities and changes in Australian regional perspectives, showing that ordinary Australians were more closely connected to the Pacific Islands than has previously been acknowledged. Addressing the theme of travel as a historical, literary and imaginative process, this cultural history probes issues of nation and empire, race and science, commerce and tourism by focusing on significant episodes and encounters in history. This is a foundational text for future studies of Australia’s relations with the Pacific, and histories of travel generally.
Download or read book No Worries Mate written by Ken Ewell and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Worries, Mate is the journal of a modern-day swagman on a manly adventure in the land down under. Follow his manful exploits as he closes the pubs of Sydney, tramps about the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, cruises Victoria's Great Ocean Road, searches for the elusive Tasmanian devil, surfs the shores of Queensland, dives along the Great Barrier Reef, explores Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory, and as he manfully climbs Ayers Rock. Follow him also as he hones his manly virtues on the beach, around the barbie, at the track and in the Australian Outback. Needless to say, his are feats seldom seen in these, less than manful times.
Download or read book Should I Go Walkabout in Australia written by John Timms and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is not only about travel but about people we met on the road and the problems encountered when using an American Motorhome (RV), which had seen better days and was difficult with spare parts. She comments on aboriginal life and many other asides. We have so many colorful photos that it will be difficult to pick them from our collection. “This diary covers the route from Currumbin(Southern Gold Coast) down the New South Coast to Cowes and Melbourne. Up the Inland route of New South Wales via Dubbo , Glen Innes, Casino and up the Queensland Coast to Cooktown then back to Currumbin”. Visit www.gowalkaboutaustralia.com for more information.
Download or read book Walkabout s Australia An Anthology of Articles and Photographs from Walkabout Magazine Edited by A T Bolton written by Australian Geographical Society (Australia) and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
